This document discusses the concept of "dynamic duos" and how they can foster innovation. It defines dynamic duos as pairs of individuals or entities that are energetic, active, and constantly changing and developing. The document examines different types of duos, including service duos where one partner provides expertise to another, collaborative duos where both partners contribute equally, and mentor/mentee relationships. It also discusses how small, close-knit duos can expand into larger networks that facilitate the spread of new ideas on both micro and macro levels. The key point is that duos, when dynamic and connected to broader networks, have the potential to be far more innovative than individuals working alone.

1. Dynamic Duos, Innovative Teams
ILLiad International 2014
Lisa Carlucci Thomas
@lisacarlucci

2. Dynamic Duos
“If a person, place, or thing is
energetic and active, then it's dynamic.”
“When things are dynamic, there's a lot going on.”
“When things are dynamic,
changes and energy are in the air.”

3. Dynamic Duos
• “Dynamic Duo was the alliterative name given
to Batman and Robin in the 60s television
series starring Adam West and Burt Ward.
Duo means a pair, and dynamic means
energetic or action-oriented. ” (Yahoo Answers)
• “A very special pair of people or things.”
(Dictionary.com)

21. Dynamic Duos
• What makes a duo “dynamic?”
• How can these relationships enhance our
work on a micro or macro level?
• Each information
exchange, transaction, interaction is a creative
opportunity

22. Identifying Duos
• Service Duo
– One (experienced/knowledgeable/skilled) partner
provides a service to another
– Transfer of information or expertise to meet the
need of the partner; may be peers
– One partner gains, but the other doesn’t lose
– Example: Internal customers, Library/Faculty

23. Identifying Duos
• Collaborative Duo
– Both partners have equal information,
share/combine to create new information
– Both partners gain
– Examples: Peer/Peer, Library/Faculty,
Musicians/Producers, Artists/Curators

24. Identifying Duos
• Level-Up Duo
– One partner has more authority, power, status,
experience, prestige, etc
– One partner learns from, apprentices, increases
knowledge from the duo
– Both partners gain
– Examples: Mentor/ Mentee, Faculty/Student

25. Identifying Duos
• Are there other types of dynamic duos?
• Identifying Duos
– Informs interactions
– Helps you keep creative channels open
– Consider what you can learn/create in your duos

26. Dynamic Duos
• Duos are greater than the sum of the parts
• Not all duos last forever (many don’t)
• Duos are the heart of networked relationships

28. What If…
We could expand and enhance these
creative, energetic connections?
Exponentially.

29. “A graphical representation of one person’s network neighborhood on Facebook.”
Cameron Marlow/Facebook

30. Duos & Nodes & Networks

31. Networks: Concrete or Abstract
• “Networks can be abstract or concrete and humans have the
perceptual ability, as it were, to morph between the two.”
• “A traveler looks down at a crossroads marked on the abstract
network of a map and then up at the signpost that establishes
it as the same crossroads in a concrete network of roads.”
Abstract Networks: “describe what is supposed
or proposed to exist” = “what’s in your head”
Concrete Networks: “what exists” = actual, IRL

32. The Internet and Pets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUpaT7RFUi0&t=6m31s

33. Small World: Watts/Strogatz
DUNCAN WATTS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFK1bpQwHF4&t=4m54s

34. Six Degrees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9u-TITxwoM&t=1m6s
KEVIN BACON

35. Network Relationships
• “Embedded” ties signal: closeness, many
mutual friends, time together, interactions
• “The key structural feature used in these
analyses is the notion of embeddedness —
the number of mutual friends two people
share, a quantity that typically increases with
tie strength.”

36. Network Relationships
“Certain important types of strong
ties … connect us to people who
belong to multiple parts of our social
neighborhood, producing a set of
shared friends that is not simply
large but also diverse…” #dispersion

37. Tweets tagged #Oscar2014 (50 seconds after Ellen’s selfie tweet) - 3/2/2014
http://mashable.com/2014/03/04/see-all-the-oscar-night-twitter-activity

38. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i0iyXIP9jMI/SktvTL
p9m4I/AAAAAAAAAEo/QimGYHScqz4/s400/Tip
pingPoint%2BTheSocialMediaNetwork.jpg

40. Discuss
• Who’s your Dynamic Duo?
– At work?
– At Professional Events?
– Elsewhere?
• How do these duos and networks facilitate
the development of new INNOVATIVE ideas?
– Telephone?
– Tipping Point?

44. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phOW-CZJWT0&t=0m24s

45. Dynamic Duos, Innovative Teams
ILLIAD International 2014
Lisa Carlucci Thomas
@lisacarlucci
March 19, 2014