Notes
1 Our publications include articles in Science, Nature, the Data Science Journal, the Negotiation Journal, and other venues.
2 Members of the Stakeholder Alignment Collaborative have been involved in NSF-funded research supporting more than a dozen stakeholder mapping surveys and extensive stakeholder interviews. We have also helped to launch or sustain two dozen consortia associated with research data and computing.
3 Bjorn Thomassen, “The Uses and Meaning of Liminality,” International Political Anthropology, vol. 2, no. 1, 2009.
4 “Minimum viable product” is a term that was coined in 2001 by SyncDev CEO Frank Robinson to replace “minimum feature set.” See Steven Blank, “Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything,” Harvard Business Review, vol. 91, no. 5, 2013.
5 Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, interview with Eric Trist, 1981.
6 John Kania and Mark Kramer, “Collective Impact,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2011.
7 Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Betty Barrett, and Chris Lawson, “Building the Internal Organization to Support Lateral Alignment: A Case Study of the Office of Environment and Energy, Federal Aviation Administration,” Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Project on Lateral Alignment in Complex Systems, 2005.
8 Earll Murman et al., Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from MIT’s Lean Aerospace Initiative, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
9 Marsha McNutt, “Self-Correction by Design,” Harvard Data Science Review, vol. 2, no. 4, 2020.
10 Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld et al., “Build It, but Will They Come? A Geoscience Cyberinfrastructure Baseline Analysis,” Data Science Journal, vol. 15, 2016.
11 Ken Rubin et al., “Recommended Standards and Specifications for EarthCube Projects,” in EarthCube Organization Materials, UC San Diego Library Digital Collections, May 7, 2020.
12 Ibid.
13 Joseph P. Menetski et al., “The FNIH Biomarkers Consortium Embraces the BEST,” Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, vol. 18, no. 8, 2019.
14 Barbara Mittleman, Garry Neil, and Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, “Precompetitive Consortia in Biomedicine—How Are We Doing?” Nature Biotechnology, vol. 31, no. 11, 2013.
15 Eric Knight, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, and Barbara Mittleman, “The Art of Managing Complex Collaborations,” MIT Sloan Management Review, vol. 57, no. 1, 2015.
16 Mittleman et. al. “The Role of Consortia,” 2013.
17 Informed decisions operated across a “continuum of urgencies” short- to long-term. See Paul Arthur Berkman et al., “The Arctic Science Agreement Propels Science Diplomacy,” Science, vol. 358, no. 6363, 2017.
18 NSF grants for this research covered the visual display of stakeholder alignment (VOSS EAGER 0956472); data sharing in the geosciences (OCI RAPID 1229928); transformation in the social sciences, geosciences, and cyberinfrastructure (GEO-SciSIP-STS-OCI-INSPIRE 1249607); the design and operation of research centers (OAC 1059153); organizational and institutional implications for large-scale research projects (OCI 1256163); technical assistance to public-private partnerships (I-CORPS 1313562); launching and sustaining big data hubs (OAC 1916481); the cyberinfrastructure for the National Ecological Observatory Network (DBI 1636461); the EarthCube home office (GEO-1928208); collaborative strategies for large-scale science and engineering projects (CISE 1939224); the Campus Research Computing Consortium (OAC 1620695); Pan-Arctic Options (NSF-ICER 2103490); and cyberinfrastructure at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and other Minority-Serving Institutions (OAC 2137123).
Members of the Stakeholder Alignment Collaborative contributing to this article:
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld is a professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.
Karen S. Baker is a research scientist affiliated with the School of Information Sciences at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Nicholas Berente is the Viola D. Hank Associate Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations at the University of Notre Dame.
Paul Arthur Berkman is an associated fellow of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).
Helen M. Berman is professor emerita of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Pat Canavan is CEO of WayMark Analytics, Inc.
F. Alex Feltus is a professor in the department of genetics and biochemistry at Clemson University.
Alysia Garmulewicz is associate professor in the Faculty of Management and Economics, at Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
Alyson Gounden Rock is a doctoral candidate at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.
Ron Hutchins is principal research scientist in computer science at the University of Virginia.
John Leslie King is professor emeritus of information in the School of Information, University of Michigan.
Christine Kirkpatrick is the division director of Research Data Services at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego.
Chris Lenhardt is a senior research scientist in the Earth Data Science Group at the Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Peter Levin is a principal researcher at Airtable.
Spencer Lewis is a doctoral student at Brandeis University and a senior systems engineer at Draper Laboratory.
Michael Maffie is an assistant professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations, Penn State University.
Matthew S. Mayernik is a project scientist in the Library of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Barbara Mittleman is chief strategy officer at WayMark Analytics.
Sarah M. Nusser is professor emerita of statistics at Iowa State University.
Beth Plale is the Michael A. and Laurie Burns McRobbie Bicentennial Professor of Computer Engineering in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University.
Rajesh Sampath is an associate professor of the philosophy of justice, rights, and social change at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.
Namchul Shin is professor of information systems and department chair at the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Pace University.
Shelley Stall is senior director for data leadership at American Geophysical Union.
John Towns is deputy CIO for research IT at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Susan Winter is the associate dean of research at the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland.
Pips Veazey is director of the University of Maine Portland Gateway at the University of Maine.
Kimberly E. Zarecor is a professor of architecture in the College of Design at Iowa State University.
The authors wish to thank the support of the National Science Foundation for this research,18 and Steve Hoffman, Thomas Kochan, and Joseph Menetski for their comments on earlier drafts.