Our Team - CKN Core Team - Peter A. Gloor

Peter A. Gloor has a unique combination of academic and industry experience. In the academic sphere, he is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT's Sloan School of Management where he leads a project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks. He is also lecturing at University of Cologne where he was Mercator Visiting Professor and at Helsinki University of Technology. Earlier, Peter was a Research Fellow at Tuck School of Business and adjunct faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Zurich in 1989. Peter has written 6 books and numerous scholarly papers ranging from scientific visualization to social network analysis. His latest books "Swarm Creativity - Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks" and "Coolhunting - Chasing Down The Next Big Thing" appeared January 2006 at Oxford University Press and 2007 at AMACOM, respectively. More information about Peter's work on Swarm Creativity is here.

Peter is equally at home in the commercial world. He is currently Chief Creative Officer of software startup galaxyadvisors, commercializing Condor. Until the end of 2002, Peter was a Partner with Deloitte Consulting, leading its E-Business practice for Europe. Before that, he was a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Section Leader for Software Engineering at Union Bank of Switzerland. He has also been CEO of Internet start-up CyberMap Systems. Peter has led large Internet Strategy, Knowledge Management, and IT Systems integration projects for clients such as UBS, Zurich, Generali, Banca del Gottardo, Novartis, Roche, Norsk Hydro, TUI, DaimlerChrysler, Caterpillar, TRW, Lafarge, Holcim, United Nations and the Swiss Government.

Selected Publications

Books

• Gloor, P. Cooper, S. Coolhunting - Chasing Down The Next Big Thing? AMACOM, NY, spring 2007
• Gloor, P. Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks, Oxford University Press, New York, 2006. (Prerelease version available on the Web)
• Gloor, P. Making the e-Business Transformation: Sharing Knowledge in the e-Business Company, Springer, London, 2000.
• Gloor, P. Elements of Hypermedia Design: Techniques for Navigation and Visualization in Cyberspace. Birkhäuser, Cambridge MA, 1997. (Also available on the Web at http://www.ickn.org/elements/index.htm)

CDs

• Gloor, P. Dynes, S. Lee, I. Animated Algorithms.  MIT Press, 1993. (CD-ROM)

Papers (partial list)

• Gloor, P. Grippa, F. Kidane, Y. Marmier, P. Von Arb, C. Location Matters - Measuring the Efficiency of Business Social Networking , accepted for publication in International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy (IJFIP) 2007.
• Gloor, P. Cooper, S. "The New Principles of a Swarm Business" . Sloan Management Review. April 2007
• Gloor, P. Paasvaara, M. Schoder, D. Willems, P.   Finding Collaborative Innovation Networks Through Correlating Performance With Social Network Structure. Journal of Production Research , Taylor and Francis, April 2007
• Raz, O. Gloor, P. Size Really Matters - New Insights for Startup's Survival, Management Science, February 2007
• Kidane, Y. Gloor, P. Correlating temporal communication patterns of the Eclipse open source community with performance and creativity, Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory. Volume 13, Issue 1 (March 2007), ISSN:1381-298X, 17 - 27, 2007
• Gloor, P. Zhao, Y. Analyzing Actors and Their Discussion Topics by Semantic Social Network Analysis, Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation IV06, London, 5-7 July 2006.
• Gloor, P. Capturing Team Dynamics Through Temporal Social Surfaces , Proceedings of 9th IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation IV05, London, 6-8 July 2005.
• Kidane, Y. Gloor, P. Correlating Temporal Communication Patterns of the Eclipse Open Source Community with Performance and Creativity , NAACSOS Conference, June 26 - 28, Notre Dame IN, North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science, 2005 (Best Paper Award).
• Gloor, P. Zhao, Y. TeCFlow - A Temporal Communication Flow Visualizer for Social Networks Analysis , ACM CSCW Workshop on Social Networks. ACM CSCW Conference, Chicago, Nov. 6. 2004.
• Gloor, P. Heckman, C. Makedon, F. Ethical Issues in Virtual Communities of Innovation . Ethicomp 2004, the 7th International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communcation Technologies, Syros, Greece, April 14-16. 2004
• Gloor,P. Laubacher, R. Dynes, S. Zhao, Y. 2003. Visualization of Communication Patterns in Collaborative Innovation Networks: Analysis of some W3C working groups.Proc. ACM CIKM 2003, New Orleans
• Gloor, P. et. al. Collaborative Knowledge Networks. eJETA electronic Journal on E-Business Technologies and Applications, Vol 1, No 2, 2002. (http://www.ejeta.org)
• Gloor, P. Dynes, S. Cybermap – Visually navigating the Web. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. 9, 1998, 319-336.