Creating and maintaining a social endeavor is as much art as it is science, and after a decade of working with online communities and social networks, I have come to believe that they can't be managed but only influenced.
With the dawn of the 21st century, we have begun to observe a more inclusive digital shift in value creation, with the transformation of business as well as societal systems due to an emerging phenomenon: a new computing paradigm that has introduced myriad Web and mobile-based applications aiming to fulfill society’s primary and secondary human needs. Nonetheless, many attempts to develop social computing applications to facilitate value creation have failed. We have created a human needs fulfillment (HNF) model that enables an optimum fulfillment of human needs, resulting in value creation.
This Advisor outlines the makeup of a transformational leadership team, how to form the team, how it can focus its efforts, behaviors, and expectations, and how to convert the themes and horizons established during transformation planning into objectives and key results to ground the change in metrics and reality.
In a recent IEEE Software column (Goth, G., "Federal Government Calls for More Secure Software Design," IEEE Software, Volume 10 Number 1, January/February 2002, pp.