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General Publications

Optimice's partners have published a series of papers and articles:

Sign Here! Why Contracts Fail And What To Do About It.
(Verna Allee, Global Thought Leader on Value Network Analysis: "This is an excellent paper". Also published on ValueNetwork.com)

Relationship-Based Selling

WikiMining, WikiNetworks and Wikinomics

The Partnership Scorecard 

Case Study - Succession Planning and Organisational Restructuring

The 3 E's of Innovation: A Networking Perspective

Value Network Analysis and Systems Analysis

IT Outsourcing Relationships in Australia

Network analysis of media ownership in Australia

Relationship Management: The new IT Competency

Multi-sourcing in the networked marketplace: What you can see is what you get.

Trends in Collaboration Practices and Technology 

Balancing business process with business practice for organizational advantage

Does your Community Leave a Digital Footprint?

How IT can help Build and Sustain an Organisation’s Communities of Practice: Spanning the Socio-Technical Divide.
(Published in Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice. Editors Paul Hildreth & Chris Kimble, Idea Group Inc.)

Knowledge Sharing Metrics for Large Organisations
Re-humanising the corporation: Don't automate - facilitate!
Web Mining
Where Business Process Meets Business Practice
 How "lntelligent" Manufacturing Firms Build Social, Economic and Shareholder Value

Social Capital: The new driver for corporate success.
(Published in Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques: Practitioners and Experts Evaluate KM Solutions, Madanmohan Rao (ed.), Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004.)

Corporate Social Capital and Firm Performance

Recent Talks

 

Find below a series of presentations from recent events:

Presented at Hargraves Innovation 2009 Conference March 11th 2009:

Presented at NSW KM Roundtable 25th February 2009:

Presented at Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum - 24th February 2009:

 

Book - Multi-sourcing and Social Capital

Academic Papers - Laurence Lock Lee

These papers have been developed from Laurence Lock Lee's PhD thesis entitled "Corporate Social Capital and Firm Performance in the Global Information Technology Services Sector" submitted at the University of Sydney during 2007 and awarded March 2008. A book version has been published by VDM for purchase e.g. from Amazon and other resellers.

Presented at 2008 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Annaheim, August

Corporate Social Capital and Firm Performance

Presented at 4th UK Social Networks Conference, London, July 2008

Governance and Corporate Social Capital

 Thesis Summary Paper

Vizualizing the Intellectual Capital of Markets

Presented at the International Forum on Knowledge Assets Dynamics, Matera, Italy, June 2008

The Role of Corporate Social Capital in Business Innovation Networks