Looking for great ideas: Analyzing the innovation jam

Wojciech Gryc*, Mary Helander, Rick Lawrence, Yan Liu, Claudia Perlich, Chandan Reddy, Saharon Rosset

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Abstract

In 2006, IBM hosted the Innovation Jam with the objective of identifying innovative and promising "Big Ideas" through a moderated on-line discussion among IBM worldwide employees and external contributors. We describe the data available and investigate several analytical approaches to address the challenge of understanding "quot;how innovation happens". Specifically, we examine whether it is possible to identify characteristics of such discussions that are more likely to lead to innovative ideas as identified by the Jam organizers. We demonstrate the social network structure of data and its time dependence, and discuss the results of both supervised and unsupervised learning applied to this data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis - 9th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery on the Web, WebKDD 2007 and 1st Int.Workshop on Social Networks Analysis, SNA-KDD 2007, Revised papers
Pages21-39
Number of pages19
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery on the Web, WebKDD 2007 and 1st International Workshop on Social Networks Analysis, SNA-KDD 2007 - San Jose, CA, United States
Duration: 12 Aug 200715 Aug 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5439 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery on the Web, WebKDD 2007 and 1st International Workshop on Social Networks Analysis, SNA-KDD 2007
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose, CA
Period12/08/0715/08/07

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