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What is a NIC?
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In Doug Engelbart's terms, an improvement community is any group involved in a collective pursuit to improve a given capability. Examples include a professional association, community of practice or consortium, a corporate initiative to innovate management practices, a local task force to improve our schools, or a medical research community seeking to cure a specific disease.
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An improvement community that puts special attention on how it engages its network and facilitates individual and collective work, boosting its collective IQ by employing better and better tools and practices in innovative ways, is a networked improvement community (NIC). See also About NICs and Boosting Collective IQ.
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A bootstrapping NIC is a NIC whose mission has to do with boosting collective IQ, and is both provider and aggresssive pioneering user of the technologies and/or best practices it delivers. See also About Bootstrapping.
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A TurboNIC is a an improvement alliance of NICs collaborating on Bootstrapping Innovation.
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Overview
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An important element of the strategic vision for boosting Collective IQ worldwide is the emergence and cross-pollenation of "networked improvement communities", or NICs (see sidebar right What is a NIC?). Although the missions of improvement communities vary widely across sectors and localities, from local economic development to innovative corporate initiatives, from improving health care to global initiatives for peace and environmental protection, they require very similar core competencies -- clarifying their vision, networking their innovators, establishing and maintaining a shared knowledge environment (protocols for keeping in touch, tools and methodologies for collectively positioning and advancing their mission), continuously improving their practices and incorporate enabling technologies as needed.
Their Collective IQ is a measure of how effectively they do this, mustering their collective insight and actionable knowledge in identifying needs and opportunities, developing and deploying solutions, and incorporating lessons learned. Effective strategies for increasing Collective IQ lead to faster, smarter, more cost-effective results, more far-reaching results, greater quality and quantity of initiatives fulfilled. This might lead to greater numbers of target customers receiving greater value, sooner.
The Doug Engelbart Institute offers a venue for NICs to join forces in an alliance of NICs, or TurboNICTM, to network, collaborate, share and exchange best practices and learnings, and pool resources for pilot projects. By joining the TurboNIC CommunityTM, member NICs agree to describe and continuously improve their Collective IQ capability, as resources permit, along the lines of our How To Guide for Bootstrapping the Innovation, and to share and exchange their learning, experience, and possible joint project opportunities with other member NICs. 1a
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How to Join
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Estimate Your Collective IQ: Using our simple Collective IQ Index (coming soon), estimate your organization's Collective IQ (you will not be required to share this number). This starts the conversation within your NIC about Collective IQ, what it's made of, why it matters, what raises or lowers it, and where you stand relative to where you want or need to be.
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Chart Your NIC: Next, discuss our How To Guide for Bootstrapping the Innovation, which is essentially a roadmap for raising your Collective IQ -- refer to our Case Examples (coming soon) of other NICs that have come before you. Then, using our NIC Template, briefly describe your NIC in each of the five areas. Think of this as a preliminary work in progress which you will keep iterating over time. What's important is the deeper discussion this initiates within your NIC, and providing enough highlights to give our other member NICs a rough idea of what you're about.
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- Register Your NIC: (Coming Soon) To register, click here. You will be asked to upload your NIC Template, and join our TurboNIC discussion group (coming soon), with a link to your NIC Chart which becomes the centerpiece of your member profile.
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Further Inquiry
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- Augmenting Society's Collective IQs - highlights of Doug Engelbart's vision, makes the case for Collective IQ and Networked Improvement Communities in the context of a larger strategic approach for elevating our Collective IQ to its highest potential.
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