#jboye12 conference presentation: Nature’s answers to collaboration - Learnings from gardening, botany, landscaping and nature itself.

1. Nature’s answers to collaboration
Learnings from gardening, botany, landscaping and nature itself.
Sami Poikonen
November 8th 2012
Aarhus

2. About me
Currently
Enterprise & Information Architect, CEO of
Emergem, Founded 09/2012
Previously
Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Content
management, Nokia
Senior SharePoint Consultant
Consultant, ECM solution architect, J2EE
Architect

3. About me
Hobbies:
Dendrology
the scientific study of trees and woody plants,
especially their taxonomy
Gardening & Landscaping
• 1 hectare of own land
• Over 200 species
• Over 40 species of maple (Acer sp.)
• USDA Z3

4. I spent several months looking for nature's
answer to the problem – J. B. Cox
-> C shape of jaws
-> Oregon #10 saw chain
-> Oregon Saw Chain
Manufacturing Corporation was
C
founded in 1947

5. Collaboration in Nature
Symbiosis

6. Scope of Symbiosis
Organism Organism
• Endosymbiosis
← Exosymbiosis

7. Scope of Collaboration
Organization Organization
• Intra-collaboration
← Inter-collaboration

8. Types of Symbiosis
Mutual
• Service-service
• Phoresy • resourse-resourse
(transportation) mycorrhiza
• Service-resourse
Pollunation
• Cheating
• Inquilinism (housing)
• Social parasites
Non-mutual
Orchids
Cockoo • Metabiosis
• Ectoparasites (on surface)
Mites (prepares environment)
Host suffers • Endoparasites (inside) Host benefits
Worms, bacteria, virus
Paratism Commensalism mutualism
Q: Where would you place email collaborators?

9. Types of Collaboration
1. Networking
Informal and
noncommittal, weak 2. Coordination
links
Previously identified
3. Cooperation goal,
synchronization of
Voluntary arrangement in activities and
which 2 or more entities
4. Resourse Sharing responsibilities
engage in mutual beneficial
exchange instead
competing. Knowledge, talents,
Not fully shared risks, skills,
5. Collaboration
responsibilities and information, risks,
rewards. resources, capital;
Synergestic, Symbiotic shared for common goal
relation, where 2 or more
entities working tohether to
create something much
greater than they could
have come to on their own

10. What is the world’s largest living
creature?
Pando
- Single male aspen clonal colony Great Barrier Reef
connected by roots - 2900 reefs, 2600 km, 344000 m2
- 43 hectares (106 acres) and - Thousands species
has around 47,000 stems - Ecosystem
- 80 000 years old - Origin dates back 600 000 years
- Fishlake National Forest, Utah, USA - Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland,
Australia
Q: Do you aim for clonal unity of diverse
ecosystem?

11. Plants thrive in right soil and
right amount of light
Collaboration
Direct sun light
◯ Full sun > 6 h
Partial shade, 3-6 h
◑
Shade < 3h
Compliance
Q: Individual personal preferences?

12. When different things matter

13. What do you do with Information?
Fountain?
Drain?
Q: If Sharing is caring, do you really care?

14. Total Costs of a Street Tree
• Just plant seed, rain
waters it and it grows on
its own.
• Cost ~ 0
Real TCO of a street tree:
2500€/tree
Q: What really is cost of collaboration?
How about not collaborating?

15. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
• Weed: A plant considered undesirable,
unattractive, or troublesome, especially one
growing where it is not wanted, as in a garden
• If it spreads and becomes succesfull, It is in
danger becoming a weed.
Rosa rugosa invading beaches of Finland
Q: What if collaboration is not valued?

16. “Let a thousand flowers bloom”

17. • Try to understand scopes and types of collaboration
you are promoting
– If individual motivation is missing, it won’t fly
• Individual motivations and preferences
– Focus on early and easy adopters, don’t force on others
• Try to get costs and what ever you expect in return
right
• Be prepared, not everyone sees value in collaboration
– If you are not able to show the value, easier it is to neglect

18. Good places to visit
Mustila Arboretum, Finland; www.mustila.fi
The Arboretum in Hørsholm, Denmark
Westonbirt, The National Arboretum, UK
USNA, US National Arboretum, Washington DC
Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco
Botanical Gardens all over the world

19. Want to hear
more?
@PoikonenSami
@EmergemCO
http://www.linkedin.com/company/emergem
http://fi.linkedin.com/pub/sami-poikonen/0/38/555
sami.poikonen@emergem.fi
+358 44 2112 130
Ylistönmäentie 24, 40500 Jyväskylä, Finland
Wolffintie 36, 65200 Vaasa, Finland