Nov 24th, 2009
Die Suche nach dem nächsten großen Ding - Interview mit Peter A. Gloor
Die härteste Währung ist nicht Geld, sondern – das Vorhersagen der Zukunft. Treffsichere Trendforscher sind sehr gefragt. Einer von ihnen ist Peter A. Gloor. Er erforscht die so genannte «Schwarmkreativität»; mit wissenschaftlichen Mitteln macht er sich auf die Suche nach «the next big thing». Read more...

Nov 21st, 2009
Sich den Schwarm zunutze machen
Wie lernt man im Zeitalter des Internets und der neuen Medien? Mit dieser Frage beschäftigt sich eine Tagung in Bern. Read more...

Nov 2nd, 2009
COINs 2009: Reflections on the first-ever conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks
On October 8th, 2009, the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, hosted an international cast of social scientists, information systems engineers, venture capitalists, innovation consultants and designers for the first-ever Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) Conference. Read more...

Oct 16th, 2009
Wie die Bienen
Studenten auf der Jagd nach coolen Ideen und Wissenschaftler als kreative Schwärme - der Kreativitätsforscher Peter Gloor vom Massachusetts Institute of Technology untersucht, wie Schwarmintelligenz funktioniert. Im Interview erklärt er, wie Menschen dabei gemeinsam zu schwingen beginnen und dass Kreative ihre Ideen lieber unters Volk bringen sollten, statt sie nur patentieren zu lassen. Read more...

Oct 8-11th, 2009
galaxyadvisors at COINs 2009
This first conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) brings together a multi-disciplinary international group of practitioners, researchers and students of the emerging science of collaboration. Sponsored by the Savannah College of Art and Design(SCAD), MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and Wayne State University College of Engineering--Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and hosted by SCAD. Read more...

Sep 28th, 2009
Open Innovation Networks are One Key to Improved Care
Fostering innovation to speed the improvement of health care is the goal of an $8.3 million grant to researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. "The system of providing care for the chronically ill is broken," says Peter Margolis, MD, PhD, co-Principal Investigator of the project. "What we aim to do, building on our previous successes, is to create a totally new system of providing care through widespread collaboration." Read more...

May 9th, 2009
Mit dem Web die Zukunft vorhersagen
Informatiker Peter Gloor möchte die Trends von morgen schon heute kennen. Dafür hat er Methoden und Tools entwickelt, mit denen sich die Zukunft dank wachsender Transparenz im Web tatsächlich in gewissen Bereichen - etwa bei politischen Wahlen und Oscar-Abstimmungen - ein wenig besser vorausahnen lässt. Read more...

April 27th, 2009
Auf Trendsuche im Internetforum
In Foren, Netzwerken und Blogs diskutieren Internetnutzer das, was sie gerade beschäftigt: vom letzten Kinofilm, den sie gesehen haben, bis hin zu den neuesten Plänen der Bundesregierung. Read more...

April 17th, 2009
Und ewig lockt der Kunde
Kundendaten verwalten ist in Zeiten wie diesen zu wenig. Experten entwickeln immer ausgeklügeltere Ansätze des Kundenmanagements wie etwa "Coolhunting" per Internet. Peter A. Gloor: "Suchen Sie Leute, die mit Bill Gates zu tun haben. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass die auch sehr reich sind, ist sehr hoch." Read more...

March 18th, 2009
I-Open Education features video of Peter Gloor talking about Swarm Creativity
Peter Gloor, Chief Creative Officer of galaxyadvisors, gives an interview on Collaborative Innovation Networks and Swarm Creativity - check out the video below! I-Open Education is a community which shares best practices in collaborative leadership, networks, and Strategic Doing to strengthen Open Source Economic Development.

March 13th, 2009
Cool Vendors in Social Software, 2009
Condor will be of interest to users who want to uncover predictive trends based on the collective intelligence laid open by the Internet. As an example, a biopharma researcher could examine the Galaxyadvisors medical research database for the most important researchers, first filtering for the search terms and then generating the social network of the researchers publishing in its field of study. CoolTrend will be of interest to marketers who want to measure the value of their advertising campaigns or uncover a new target market for their products. They could look for behaviors among current customers or among prospects that could enable them to spot trends (deterioration in customer satisfaction or loyalty) or behaviors (demonstrated interest in specific topics or ideas). CoolPeople will be of interest to salespeople who want to find new prospects and understand their soft spots, social network, buying patterns or limitations. HR professionals could use CoolPeople when they are looking for new hires. Read more...

March 3rd, 2009
Blick ins Netz - Blick in die Zukunft
Wer wird Kanzler, wer bekommt den Oscar, wer wird ein Star? Bestimmte Entwicklungen lassen sich durch Beobachtung des Internets voraussagen. Wir können zwar nicht das nächste Erdbeben vorhersagen. Aber wir können vorhersagen, was die Menschen glauben, wann das nächste Erdbeben kommt, erklärt Firmengründer Gloor. Read more...

February 26th, 2009
Condor Searches for Cool Trends and Trendsetters
How well did you predict the Oscar winners this year? Well, let me break it to you gently. The odds are that a piece of software made more accurate predictions than you did. Condor is the name of this prescient forecaster of the Oscars - and other phenomena like consumer trends and election outcomes. Read more...

February 11th, 2009
Condor Movie about Migros Webtrends
A Condor social network movie showing the link networks of the most important Web sites talking about Swiss retailer Migros Dec 12, 2008 to Feb 10, 2009 in the context of quality of life, reliability, freshness, simplicity, and price/performance.

January 25th, 2009
He's Cool. How About D.C.?
Not the people themselves -- no, not you, never you -- but there are too few of you and you're too spread out. That's what Peter Gloor, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thinks. He's co-author of "Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing" and author of the forthcoming "Coolfarming". Read more...

January 9th, 2009
Voll im Trend
Wer bestimmt, was gerade in ist? Sind Trends nur Zufall oder unterliegen sie Gesetzmässigkeiten, die sie vorhersehbar machen? Und mit welchen Methoden arbeiten moderne Trendscouts auf der Jagd nach den coolen Dingen? Read more...

January 2nd, 2009
CoolPeople Demo Video
As teaser for the upcoming CoolPeople beta we created a brief video on YouTube which shows some of the cool features CoolPeople provides and gives some explanations, check it out below! You can still register for the beta of CoolPeople here.

December 23rd, 2008
Die Zukunft im Internet-Forum
Sie wollen die Zukunft vorhersagen - welcher Film etwa den nächsten Oscar bekommt oder sogar wer der nächste Bundeskanzler wird. Mit einer Software namens "Condor", die speziell für die Analyse sozialer Netzwerke im Internet, Blogs und Foren, E-Mail Archive und Literatur-Seiten entwickelt wurde... Read more...

December 18th, 2008
Registration for CoolPeople beta now possible!
With the beginning of December 2008, galaxyadvisors opened registration phase for the closed beta of CoolPeople. A limited number of users will be able to test and experiment with the system for a few months before it is released for the public. Interested persons should follow the link below.
CoolPeople Beta Registration

November 4th, 2008
Election Night at Swiss Residence in Lexington, MA
Organized in partnership with L'Hebdo (a Swiss weekly newspaper), the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, and the Forum of 100 outstanding personalities from the French part of Switzerland, the election night at the newly decorated Swiss residence in Lexington gathered around 100 people. Using a social networking tool analyzing blogs and sentiment on the web, Swiss scientist Peter Gloor presented in realtime what people think about Obama and McCain in the blogosphere. Read more...

November 2008
Internet Trend Research
Wer wird US-Präsident? Wie entwickeln sich die Aktienkurse? Welcher Film gewinnt einen Oscar? Ein Schweizer Informatiker gibt die Antwort - dank einer Software, mit der er die Kommunikationsströme im Internet analysiert. Read more...

October 2008
Internet statt Marktforschung
Im Datensee des Internets kann man Trends und Trendsetter zuverlässig identifizieren. Das verspricht das Aargauer Start-up Galaxy Advisors, dessen Software aufwendige reelle Umfragen überflüssig machen soll. Das Swiss Equity Magazin berichtet. Read more...

October 2008
Wisdom of Crowds
Jeder möchte wissen, was die Zukunft bringt. "Wir wissen es", verspricht Peter Gloor. Denn seine Software für die Analyse sozialer Netzwerke sagte schon politische Wahlen und Oscar-Preisträger voraus. Jetzt ist der Unternehmer und Forscher, der sich seit 15 Jahren am MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Boston mit der Visualisierung von unstrukturiertem Wissen befasst und jetzt auch an der Helsinki University of Technology unterrichtet, mit seiner Jungfirma galaxyadvisors.com in den Technopark Aarau eingezogen. Read more...

September 3rd, 2008
22nd Swiss Venture Day, Zurich
galaxyadvisors took part in an investor pitch at the Zurich stock exchange in Switzerland. The innovative business model and the creative ideas received great attention. Galaxyadvisors discusses modalities of funding with several potential investors. Read more...

April 2008
Is collaboration the future of invention?
Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) are online communities of like-minded people working together to create innovations. Author and scientist Peter Gloor originated the term. He describes it as a "cyberteam of self-motivated people with a collective vision." Read more...

Spring 2008
Coolhunting through Swarm Creativity
Was haben iPod, Facebook und YouTube gemeinsam? Sie sind innovativ, frisch und "cool". Jedes Unternehmen träumt davon solche Trends vorherzusagen, bevor sie in der Breite wirksam werden. Genau das leistet jetzt eine MIT-Software zur Analyse sozialer Netzwerke. Ihr Entwickler, Peter A. Gloor, zeigt, wie man damit Innovationen jagt. Read more...

February 7th, 2008
Web tool predicts election results and stock prices
Tools such as Google Trends and Blogpulse track what people are talking or thinking about by recording the frequency with which words are entered into search engines and appear on blog sites. Now Peter Gloor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is going a step further, and using the web to make specific predictions. His software, called Condor, has predicted the results of an Italian political party's internal election and successfully forecast stock market fluctuations. Read more...

Kai Fischbach - Chief Scientist

Kai Fischbach is a Research Associate with the Department of Information Systems and Information Management at the University of Cologne (Germany). He is also Associate Director of the Center for Applied Social Network Analysis (CASNA) in Cologne. His areas of expertise include the analysis of communication networks and the design of efficient information exchanges. He studied mathematics and social science at the University of Siegen (Germany). From 2001-2003 he was a Research Assistant at the Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management (Germany) where he received his Ph.D. In 2003 he was Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA). He received scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German National Merit Foundation.

Hauke Fuehres - Software Development Lead

Hauke is a software developer at galaxyadvisors. He graduated from the University of Cologne in early 2009 with a degree in Information Systems. Hauke is excited about the opportunity to work on such an innovative project as galaxyadvisors and to explore the (virtual) world with the means of SNA.

Peter A. Gloor - Chief Creative Officer and Founder

Peter Gloor has been working on visualizing knowledge and analyzing social networks for the last 15 years, leading to the development of Cybermap, a navigation tool for the Web, and to TeCFlow, a tool combining Web navigation with social network analysis. He founded galaxyadvisor's predecessorTeKFlo, Inc. in 2004. 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 was Mercator Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne, and is a lecturer at Helsinki University of Technology. 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 UBS.

Jonas S. Krauss - Chief Knowledge Officer

Jonas Krauss studied Information Systems at the University of Cologne with specialization in Information Management and Supply Chain Management, his diploma thesis covered Business Policy and Logistics. During a seminar at the Department of Information Systems and Information Management he developed an innovative method for the evaluation of communication networks and trend predictions in collaboration with Stefan Nann. Besides internships in the area of business consulting and airline IT management he visited the Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu for a semester abroad. Jonas Krauss also works as a research associate and doctoral student at the Chair of Information Systems and Information Management at the University of Cologne. Subject of his research is social network analysis and the development of automated sentiment analysis for communication networks to derive trend predictions.

Stefan Nann - Chief Coolhunting Officer

Stefan Nann studied Information Systems at University of Cologne (Germany). He also works as a research associate for the Department of Information Systems and Information Management at University of Cologne. His areas of expertise include the development of analysis methods for efficient and automatic evaluation of online communication channels, particularly online discussion boards and blogs and the identification of new “cool” trends on the web. Stefan completed several internships for companies from different industries. He has experience in the consulting business and worked as a project manager for a German eBusiness agency. He studied at San Diego State University and gained working experience abroad by supporting Ravensburger F.X. Schmid USA, Inc. in a Supply Chain Management project. Stefan currently is a PhD student with the Department of Information Systems and Information Management at University of Cologne in the field of Social Network Analysis.

Ken Riopelle - Chief Coolfarming Officer

Dr. Riopelle is a Research Professor at Wayne State University in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Detroit Michigan. His career spans thirty plus years in automotive consulting and has specialized in the diffusion of innovations in globally networked organizations. He was the Director of Research for Sandy Corporation.

Detlef Schoder - Chair of Scientific Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Detlef Schoder holds the chair for Information Systems and Information Management at the University of Cologne, Germany. He obtained his PhD and Habilitation from the University of Freiburg, Germany. Earlier, he was DaimlerChrysler Fund Chair of Electronic Business at WHU - Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management, one of Germany's leading business schools. He also has been a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley and MIT. His research focusses on the economics and management of telecommunications in organizations, especially electronic commerce/electronic business, mass customization, peer-to- peer, ubiquitous computing, and new media management. He has advised both the German government and the EC on these topics and is a reviewer for numerous journals and conferences. He also has broad consulting experience in industry, and is a member of the board of directors of IT solution provider Reutax.

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