For those non-members reading this post, the results of the group effort will be posted on this blog.  If you have any ideas, please add them to the comments.

Now I know you have many questions, the first likely being – What’s a wiki?  A wiki is web-based software that allows a group of people to collaboratively write a collection of documents.  The best example is wikipedia.  Each page in the wiki is a document and each page can be edited quite easily by anyone.  It is a great tool for collecting and sharing knowledge in a group.

In Wikis – A Disruptive Innovation, Cindy Gordon writes:

The wiki paradigm is disruptive because it is a low-cost alternative that brings key editing features into the hands of users. The approach increases the collaborative productivity of an organization or its extended ecosystems.

Overall, wikis increase the socialization process, enabling collaboration to generate at warp speed. Socialization underpins the sharing of ideas, and hence innovation capacity increases from wiki infrastructure.

Add to that that a wiki is cheap to implement and it is a powerful tool in the innovation arsenal of any firm.  Keep that in mind as you work on the club charter.

This is the first of hopefully many interesting and informative posts on the activities of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Club – a collection of Executive MBA allumni from the University of Ottawa with diverse experience in business and government. 

The blog is aimed at those interested in entrepreneurship and innovation.  It will cover relevant topics, club business and notes from talks of guest speakers.  It will also provide a forum for discussions surrounding the broader interests and activities of the members.

We also want to take advantage of the power of social media while we are at it.  You are encouraged to subscribe to the blog, comment on the entries, and link to it from your own blogs or websites.  Requests for cross-links to relevant websites and blogs will be approved.  If you are a member and you want to contribute, please contact me or the person holding the baton at the time.  The more the merrier.