Dr. Colby Stuart

CURRENT EVENTS

Please join the conversation:
My blog Quantum-playshuns http://colbys.blogspot.com

IFCCC wiki http://www.ifccc.org/wikka
IFCCC Blog http://www.ifccc.org/weblog

My Squidoo lenses:
http://squidoo.com/ColbyStuart -- Who is Colby Stuart & what is she doing?
http://squidoo.com/SocialMedia -- How 2 Connect using Social Media
http://squidoo.com/InnovationPractices -- What makes me creative at work?
http://squidoo.com/BrandMe -- The Evolutionary Brand Called M.E. (My Emergence)
http://squidoo.com/SustainableFutures -- Sustainable Futures

My photography
http://www.flickr.com/photos/colby
http://colby.fotopic.net


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Collaboration, Creativity and Cultural exchange are changing the traditional business model. Technology is enabling more personal-centric alignments. People are coming together in platforms of interest or common cause and moving them into communities of practice. Business is recognizing the value in enabling its human content to build networks with others for the purpose of personal development and furthering social causes. Social entrepreneurship is mediating the world between work and personal development. This new social capital is enriching society and business and shaping how people want to work in the future.

New business models require new language and personal strategies for dealing with them - because our roles and reasons for engagement with those new business models change.

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Personally, I am an example of dynamic complexity - integrating science, business, technology, media and creativity - with a great capacity for engagement, performance and delivery:
Strategist, Concept Developer, Creative Director, Brand and Identity Consultant, Entrepreneur, Physicist (Toward Science of Consciousness), Professor (Applied Connective Dynamics), Vision & Values, Painter, Photographer, Filmmaker, Writer, Design, Astanga Yoga, Scuba diving, voracious Reader, mother to Sebastian, grandmother to Danté, Partner to Sierdo-weirdo, New Mexican, Alchemy, Soulful, Well-traveled, never-ending Curious Adventurer, following my Fascinations, Wellness, Rhythms & Soundtrack


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CURRENT PROJECT: KIDS 2020- Their Visions and Strategies for a Preferred Future
http://kids2020.blogspot.com
http://www.futurekids2020.org

Kids 2020 is our global learning and research project exploring the visions and strategies of 10 year old children. We promote collaborative enterprise projects among children across borders. We also translate their visions and strategies into book format and film & photographic exhibitions to create wisdom contexts for society and business worlds.



Kids 2020 is more than just for kids. The Kids 2020 Foundation has created a potentially world-changing and ambitious endeavor. We are working to put the health, education and welfare of a child as a sustainability strategy at the heart of every government policy worldwide. We are also building a new value creation system with 4 capital transactions that includes human capital, social capital, creative capital as well in addition to financial capital. This is why research about values, participation, meaning, value creation and all the patterns associated help us to evolve our practices and methodologies.

If you would like your children or school to participate, please let us know: grownups@futurekids2020.org. If you or your company are interested in contributing to this project in another way or in applying the learning to your organization, please contact me directly.


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The Dutch Connection emerged into the Institute for Collaboration Creativity & Culture - a "think and do tank" http://www.ifccc.org
The Dutch Connection Forum on OpenBC https://www.openbc.com/net/dutchconnection

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THE INSTITUTE FOR COLLABORATION CREATIVITY & CULTURE:

What I have shared with people since beginning The Dutch Connection in March 2004 has inspired me and shown me that there is a world of business people out there who want to address larger issues with regards to "corporate consciousness" and generate new business with great imagination. Thank you for opening your minds and sharing your thoughts in such a collaborative and creative way.

If you are interested in participating in THE DUTCH CONNECTION - focused on building business through collaborative cultural exchange - please join the forum at The Dutch Connection on OpenBC.

Since early 2004, we have met through our LIVE Pow-Wows and shared events with the Club of Amsterdam. Check our homepage to follow our progress. This year we officially became The Institute for Collaboration, Creativity & Culture, a legal foundation charted on 4 October 2005. The Dutch Connection will remain as a networking group. Stay tuned-in for happens.

We are currently bringing the initiative "Innovation is a Culture" alive within our community of practioners, and exploring how to help clients address this issue inside their unique business cultures.

Members have special interests, talents and expertise - tribe specific. We create PowWows where these members lead us deeper into their worlds - one evening about blogs, wikis and communication practices - and another, a dramatic culinary evening filled with delicious tastings and comedy. This gives the "tribes" interested in these evenings a chance to share what means most to them and involve us in a different kind of dialogue.


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Ok - back to the profile. ENTP on my own creative path but changing with leadership roles - equally balanced between T & F and P & J - so context and circumstances seem to play a role in weighting this from one side to another.

So, here's my story for right now......

After a two year sabbatical in Portugal where I wrote two books and made several documentaries, I realized that I had needed that evolutionary step to enrich my life and force a change of perspective. Since my return, I have met so many interesting people through work and particularly through starting The Dutch Connection, initially an online networking club here on Ecademy in March of 2004.

My dream scenario is to continue finding collaborative people, organizations and teams where I can apply my "personal science" in a greater context within an international and multi-faceted arena - where we can mutually profit from each other's experiences and contributions. During the last year and a half, several local members of The Dutch Connection started to work together in Creative Partnership with each other - and that evolved into the Institute for Collaboration Creativity & Culture, legally chartered on 4 October 2005. We are developing projects together - like Kids 2020 - and working on innovative projects inside companies using multi-sensory, cross-media platforms - and building innovation into cultures that lack the paradigm for growing innovation into application.

Last year brought a new teaching role at a new university as well. I taught at the University of Amsterdam Graduate School of Business Studies. For one course, we used a wiki and a blog to develop a brand organization for alumni networks - for this school and for others to join their networks together. The students learned about dynamic network structures by developing one of their own. Using Applied Connective Dynamics, they learned about organizing strategic relationships for brand and organizational models. They gained an understanding of the real meaning of identity and the strategic role it plays in behavior and reputation.

At the same time, I am exploring several University relationships where I can lead academic and commercial research on evolutionary leadership, wisdom and emerging dynamic networks. Basically, I want to study and learn from technology-enabled evolutionary human interaction and practices and their impact on business and culture. Working with collaborative environments, knowledge gardens, collective intelligence and all the new social media has inspired me. So much of what students learn is related to the past. These new tools and practices can give people the opportunity to capture the value of exchange in present day terms and start creating future value now.

One opportunity along these lines - Euromed Ecole de Management in Marseilles invited me to give a week long seminar class in Complexity, Creativity & Branding in December 2004. Within a 5 day period, students learned about dynamic network structures by building a brand from their human content. By engaging with scientific and business concepts on this personal level, they learned the importance of roles and intention to deliver on organizational commitments. They also learned the impact of human behavior on value created or defeated in economic frameworks. They experienced the relevance of networking the material, social and conceptual frameworks - how the mechanics of the organization and its brand identity - in how people in the organization deliver that - creates reputation. I learned that French students need lots of extra time to discuss things among themselves!

Recently, I have also spent time a lot of speaking to companies and organizations about the new market developments in social media and how it is changing how people communicate, collaborate and build new networks for exchanging ideas and developing business. What I learned has fed our new initiative "Innovation is a Culture". Companies are struggling with how to define and bring innovation alive in their organizations. We have learned that this requires an evolving mind-set first, followed up with the right processes and tools to engage people in platforms of interest that lead them into communities of practice.

Before this new step forward, I had been working as a consultant for the past several years with a virtual team of 28 people from England, France, Portugal and The Netherlands under the umbrella of Quantum Brands.

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Quantum Brands focuses on brand innovation, identity and development of new concepts. We use the brand as a creative tool to involve people in the business of building strategy.

We consult with MTs and Boards on collaboration, creativity and culture, networking organizational relationships key to new opportunities and growth to create innovative concepts that cross disciplines and open new revenue streams. We bring strategies to life by working with management teams and start-ups in the role of brand strategist and concept developer, helping them identify their core brand purpose.

We also work with individual leaders and act as their counsel - in the role of corporate consciousness - to help them generate personal business strategies for dealing with their organizations.

In doing this, we actively help companies build a solid and active reputation by releasing the hidden value in the brand.

How?
- IDENTIFYING BRAND OPPORTUNITIES (new markets, new products and services, new ways of doing things)
- BUILDING BRAND SERVICE (key opportunities for a customer-facing organization)

We believe that "people need to see it and experience it" to really feel part of something. Giving people the tools to visualize and sensationalize concepts is key to how we work and communicate.

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My talent lies in creative and strategic thinking and concept development, which allows me to untangle and explain even the most complicated concepts or identity systems (quantum entanglement, the study of consciousness, international corporate organizations). I also teach this at the graduate level in courses that I have developed from my core thinking - about transferring the knowledge behind quantum mechanics and pattern relationships to the business world - something I call Applied Connective Dynamics (eg. Brand, Identity & Concepts: their Human Organization, Creativity & Communication). I also train and coach others how to do this.

My favorite roles in my business life have been those where I lead creative processes and creative people. As an artist and a writer, I appreciate the talent and understand the drivers. As a business person, I understand that sometimes it requires a great deal of negotiation through a political landscape to land the creative work with clients and other more linear thinkers in an organization. This has always been a charming challenge to me.


FIELDS OF INTEREST:

Strategy, Branding & Innovation
Communication, Marketing & Media
Cultural Convergence
Creative Processes & Development
Network Behavior
Science of Consciousness
Collaborative & Cultural Intelligence
Evolutionary Practices
Emergence, Complexity & Entanglement


ACTIVITIES:

... Coaching individuals to develop personal strategies for dealing with their organizations and managing knowledge
... Mobilizing communities by engaging people in common cause with a shared vision, in mediated environments and enabled with social media
... Capturing the buzz inside organizations or conferences on DVD through active interviewing processes
... Business development through building networks (social, biz, organizational) and capturing the value of what emerges
... Leading creative and innovative processes through concept development to create value propositions and land them as business models, projects, products, and services
… Leading brand strategy to develop international business
. . .Integrating scientific thinking into business practices, including application of scientific processes to inspire and expand economic thinking
. . .Applying specific learning from quantum physics and quantum entanglement to enable technology for managing knowledge and concept construction
. . .Identifying guiding principles and best practices that integrate the brand across all of its disciplines
. . .Establishing foundational research that informs objective strategic processes and builds knowledge to develop applications in the innovation process
. . .Integrating communication strategy with coordination of its creative execution
. . .Creative trouble-shooting by auditing the communication and creative execution across interdepartmental and international borders (more effective use of resources)
. . .Setting up new projects that interface with multiple cultures and build the brand
. . .Identifying and developing new growth through alternative product or service ranges
. . .Rebuilding corporate culture after a merger or acquisition
. . .Promoting the understanding of cultural diversity in order to grow business outside of own borders
. . .Bringing micro-marketing knowledge from the hidden assets in local markets into brand development to create brand extensions and to reinforce communication strategies to help the brand concept travel
. . .Developing new learning programs for executive education and executive development
. . .Applying the visions and strategies of children to develop business opportunities and to work toward anchoring the health, education and welfare of children as the core strategy for governments worldwide


PACKAGE OF PRODUCTS & SERVICES:

• BUSINESS MODELING
• INTERACTIVE & ENGAGING AUDIT & EVALUATION
• PROFILING
• SCENARIOS & SITUATIONS
• CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING
• RE-SCRIPTING
• NEW TOOLS, NEW TOYS
• THE MIRROR
• COMMUNICATION CONCEPTS
• PRODUCT & SERVICE CONCEPTS
• EXPERIENCE CONCEPTS


PROPRIETARY RESEARCH & TOOLS:

• APPLIED CONNECTIVE DYNAMICS (ACD) - Many, many years ago for my PhD in the dark ages of slow computers, I developed a quantum mechanical modeling process for identifying networks based on algorithms (a mathematical recipe, so to speak). I then asked myself how I could apply that to my business world to create value. I turned it into a modeling system for identifying and organizing all elements into a network to build concepts. It's dynamic, and gives a structure or an architectural plan to help build concept or business models, depending on what gets identified and defined as the value package. I also teach this concept development process with methodology - how to construct and deconstruct concepts, and how to research and monitor concept performance - at the graduate level. To help make it easy to understand and create an application for it in the business world, I have packaged it into a course called "Brands, Identity & Concepts - their human organization, communication and creativity".

• NETWORKS OF MEANING - This system helps to communicate the true meaning of something without language barriers. It is a system using images in place of words to build multi-faceted platforms of understanding that have significance to people, issues, business, culture, etc. - identifying what creates meaning for them in a contextual world. I am currently looking for a relationship with a media lab to be able to build a computer program for it.

• The Evolutionary BRAND CALLED M.E. (My Emergence) - An HR program that comes with a manual for identifying a person's vision and values, character traits, and behaviors, and then organizing those relationships in a way that defines their competencies and role capabilities. It is a modeling process with methodology and a workbook to help people define and capture their real experience, real expertise and real effectiveness – making it clear for them how their behavior shapes teams and organizations. It clarifies an individual’s capabilities within 4 basic categories: Competency, Communication, Partnership and Leadership. Soon to be in published book format.

• THE SECRET OF COLLABORATION – Defining social media and its personal and professional impact. Identifying the evolutionary factors of how it is transforming corporate communications, democratizing publishing, and leading to sustainable community development through technology-enabled collaboration practices. Compiling an inventory and evaluation of the tools of mass mobilization and using them to enable mobilizing communities into practice, ultimately building new business models to mobilize the new economy.

• DYNAMICS OF EMOTIONS - part of Toward the Science of Consciousness project. Our objective is to identify the quantum mechanical parameters where emotions occur, addressing the hard problem between mind (consciousness) and the brain (the body).
http://consciousness.arizona.edu/resources/


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