The CKN initiative is a major multi-year research project co-located at the MIT Sloan Center for Coordination Science and the Dartmouth Tuck Center for Digital Strategies. The mission of the initiative is to discover and understand novel ways of how people join and work together in self-organizing groups that we call “Collaborative Knowledge Networks” (CKN). Collaborative Knowledge Networks are groups of self-motivated individuals from various parts of an organization or from multiple organizations, empowered by the Internet, who work together, driven by a common vision and goals.
The objective of the CKN initiative is to develop a deep understanding of the working of CKNs and a set of diagnostic and metrics tools to identify and measure the success of CKNs in and across organizations, as well as measure the readiness to support and benefit from the work of CKNs.