Why Visibility is Important

September 7th, 2007
by Jeremy Thomas
  1. Visibility = recognition
  2. Knowledge workers compete for recognition.
  3. Competition fuels participation.
  4. Participation –> more quality information assets –> increased probability of innovative ideas surfacing.
  5. Innovation = increased economic viability = happy enterprise.
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2 Responses to “Why Visibility is Important”

  1. Vincent McBurney Says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 4:16 pm

    Unless you are getting recognised for the wrong thing. Hey, there goes that guy who drank his body weight at the last conference threw up on our innovation award.

    Competition seems to work well in online forums that display top posters or allocate points and levels to frequent posters. I think this is a good lesson for the enterprise - how do you get people to participate and how do you aggregate and display the sum of their contributions?

  2. Jeremy Thomas Says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 10:45 pm

    Vincent,

    You make a good point. Transparency can backfire too. But remove anonymity and the likelihood of “crap” being visible decreases.

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