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Why Open Innovation is Not for Small Companies by Stefan Lindegaard
It is difficult to find good cases on how smaller companies have engaged with open innovation. It is also difficult to give strong advice on how such companies should engage with open innovation.
Open Innovation’s Challenge: Letting Go Is Hard To Do by Joel West
Open-source software provides an important example of how companies can leverage external sources of innovation. In practice, however, big high-tech companies often have a difficult time collaborating and sharing control.
Staying Innovative While Growing by Tim Kastelle
Google Australia lost two key people over the past couple of weeks – Lars Rasmussen, one of the developers of Google Maps and Google Wave, and Kate Vale, their first employee in Australia. It seems like the main motivation in both cases was the possibly premature death of Wave, but Vale made some comments that are instructive:
About one year ago, I started engaging in discussions on ‘innovation’ via Twitter. As a physicist, used to work in product/innovation management for technology-based companies, my understanding of innovation was: creating value for the customer by leveraging technology development.
Is innovation a matter of will? By Jorge Barba
Most of the discussion around innovation revolves around strategies, tactics and the abilities organizations need to develop to do so, but not much is said about an organizations starting point: purpose.
Using design thinking to improve a homelessness service by
The Housing Option Centre in Lewisham is the council’s front facing service providing support and advice for people dealing with homelessness across the borough. The service works alongside SHIP which works specifically with homelessness amongst single people. In both cases, we are dealing with customers in difficult high stress situations who either have nowhere to live or are worried that they might become homeless.
160yr old “start-up” by Deborah Mills-Scofield
160yr old privately family held old-line industry packaging company innovates their business model, management’s role, the value chain and becomes a recognized market leader and cool place to work.
What can media companies learn from “open innovation”? by Rob O’Regan
The practice of “open innovation” involves using a variety of resources – customers, competitors, partners, employees or even (gasp) academics – to divine new ways to grow your business, particularly through the licensing or use of technology.
Thinking About Open Design by Roland Harwood and David Simoes-Brown
“Open-source software is one thing, but would you fly in an open-source aircraft?”
This question was posed late last year at a gathering of senior design professionals in London. It was couched as a counterargument to the rise of open design and such companies as 99 designs and Quirky that offer low-cost, crowd-sourced design
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Innovation and Human Capabilities by Ralph-Christian Ohr
John Steen wrote a series of posts on why experts and crowds usually miss disruptive innovation and how to use networks to tap expertise and knowledge. I’d like to expand these thoughts a bit more towards the question: what’s the role of human capabilities in innovation? For elaboration, I’m going to combine two concepts I’ve recently come across:
Has Google jumped the innovation shark? by Jeffrey Phillips
I was thinking recently, with the demise of Google Wave, that it is entirely possible that Google has jumped the innovation shark. For those of you unfamiliar with the “jumped the shark” phrase, that harkens to a famous television show in the US.
Innovation. What Gives ? by Jorge Barba
Spotted this tweet a few minutes ago : # Innovation is rare. : millions of cookbooks Sold and read all with Practically The Same recipes. What Gives ?
Large-scale Solutions without Large-scale Organizations – #BIF6 by Andrea Meyer
Instead of trying to change large organizations, we can create new human-scale organizations that embody the needed changes and inspire passion. Micro-volunteering site Sparked.org, citizen site SeeClickFix and Fabien Cousteau’s PlantaFish point the way.
Don’t Let Others Steal Your Ideas, Another Cool Idea by Stefan Lindegaard
I recently learned about two cool projects on the intersection of open innovation, IPR and ideas. They are still in the early stages, but I think they have some potential and if you work on this intersection, you should definitely check them out.
Is It Time to Rethink the T-Shaped Designer? by Kevin McCullagh
At the recent DMI conference in London, Geoff Mulgan, once Tony Blair’s ex-strategy advisor and now a leading social entrepreneur, politely explained how ‘social designers’ had ‘entered his space’… and failed.
The Collaborative Organization: How to Make Employee Networks Really Work by Rob Cross, Peter Gray, Shirley Cunningham, Mark Showers and Robert J. Thomas
As information technology becomes increasingly critical within large, global organizations, chief information officers are being held to ever-higher performance standards.
So What Is Going On In Open Innovation In 2010? By Roland Harwood
Here at AngelNews we are convinced that a major platform for economic recovery will come from sustained engagement between very large corporates and their SME siblings.
Interaction Design Has An Important Role To Play In Our Future, It Has The Power To Transform Cultures by Idris Mootee
There is two articles on IC today, one on Inc. magazine and the other in Globe and Mail. We’re getting some good press coverage and we need to continue to make our story heard.
Boss Poop: A Morality Tale From Author Jonathan Littman by Bob Sutton
I have talked about author Jon Littman here before, as he has written a lot of books. He co-authored gems including The Art of Innovation, Ten Faces of Innovation, and most recently “I Hate People.”
Designing Effective Open Innovation Programs by Arie Goldshlager
1)Design Open Innovation Processes that facilitate long-term trust-based relationships
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