Posts tagged ‘weak ties’
“Weak ties are not less valuable than strong ties, but more valuable: they need media through which they can develop”
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CRITICAL – this would be the purpose of SNA use to stimuate innovation – to find the weak ties and provide them with resource.
Innovations are stimulated / useful / likely ??? when they spread between communities of practice.
Without weak ties, there is no real diffusion of innovation – formal processes/structures arent relevant.
A community of practice may stagnate “turning core competencies into core rigidities” — phon: “selly-brown and doogan” – “innovation and use of VLEs”
Dr. Derek S. Thomson 