THINKcreative - Thinking Network of Experts on Emerging Smart Organizations

European advisory group

THINKcreative aims at establishing a working group to act as a European advisory group in the area of smart and emerging organizations in the framework of the "knowledge and skills economy".

The general goal is to identify and characterize the emerging organizational forms, the required infrastructures, modeling and application tools, and socio-organizational needs for the next 5, 10, and 20 years.

Included specific goals

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• Characterization of these evolving and highly unpredictable systems
• Identification of required tools
• Understanding of cooperation forms, and suitable agreement models
• Clarification of the new relationships between humans and organizations (stationary workers, teleworkers, e-lancers)

  Contacts for this project

  Spiros Alexakis  Bernhard Koelmel

• Definition of new value systems and performance measures for intangible assets
• Identification of necessary inter-linking between global production and the local customization
• Identification of training requirements and social needs.

Results

THINKcreative established a working group that acted as a European advisory group in the area of smart and emerging organizations in the framework of the knowledge and skills economy. The main goal was to identify and characterize the emerging industrial organizational forms, the required infrastructures, modelling and application tools, and socio-organizational needs for the next 5, 10, and 20 years.

A key mechanism was the organization of a set of consultation meetings and regional workshops, with the participation of the THINKcreative members and other invited international experts, which have been used as a "think tank" and a discussion / deliberation space. A Delphi survey and electronic forum complement these activities. A major result was a Green Book describing the identified visionary scenarios, the needs, and recommendations for R&D in order to enhance Europe's competitiveness in the global digital marketplace.

The book has been published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (ISBN 1-4020-7823-4).

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