Open Innovation

Crowdsourcing business or other organization solutions from external problem solution providers, often through prize challenge platforms

Steve Jennings, NordicDEi : Democratizing the Power of Data

Crowdsourcing Week is hosting two crowd chats as we head to CSW Europe 2014 in Copenhagen from Oct 14-16, 2014.  #Crowdchat is a great way to join in on the conversation, gain visibility and connect with like-minded professionals. If you are a thought leader or...

Open Innovation or Co-creation and Coexistence of Business Models

We know (or we should know) that customers are the final judge of our performance in the markets and to remain in constant contact with them is a step towards innovation and consequently to the success of our organization. To be in constant contact with our customers...

Ranking Innovation in Asia – Does it matter?

Where is Asia heading to? What is needed for innovation in Asia to blossom even faster? Both, very common matters which have been scrutinized and debated umpteenth of times. Dr Bruno Lanvin was in Kuala Lumpur recently for the World Innovation Forum 2013, talking...

Copenhagen: Innovation Begins at a Public Park

Have you been to public places that discourages a good conversation, has uncomfortable seating or is just not inviting? Copenhagen thinks about public spaces in a dramatically opposite way.

Imagine a space that allows to swing and relax, admire the clouds and even talk to fellow citizens doing the same. Copenhagen has created public spaces with hammocks that invite you to use them creatively and play!

Metrics and Open Innovation: What Should We Measure?

This is a difficult topic. There is definitely some in the adage of “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. However, I have seen too many examples in which smart people get side-tracked on what really matters – the output – as they try to develop metrics in order to satisfy executives further up in the system.

R&D & Innovation Has Never Been Closer to Customers: Irene Ng

Irene Ng (@Ireneclng), Director of @WMGwarwick International Institute for Product and Service Innovation, answered questions about value & markets in the digital economy during the April 12 #CrowdChat hosted by CrowdsourcingWeek.com (@crowdweek)

#CrowdChat with Hugh Mason: Accelerating Asia’s Innovation Ecosystem

Asia is currently one of the most exciting and fast-growing hubs of innovation and entrepreneurship in the world. Within this regional ecosystem, the Singapore-based innovation academy JFDI.Asia has built an extraordinary community of practitioners who accelerate, finance, and teach new startups.

Open Innovation Leadership: More Collaboration, Different Control

Open Innovation Leadership: More Collaboration, Different Control

I think it happens often enough that when an organization opens its doors to the outside, even if it is just to watch the competition, a climate of insecurity or fear emerges within the leadership and management.

Organizations have lived for many years within closed environments, so the approaches that address the challenges from open innovation, puts some tension on leadership and management approaches.

Why Open Innovation Is More Than Hype

Innovation has been a business buzzword for decades. The word is tossed around so often and in so many different contexts that it’s meaning and value have been muddied, but innovation is here to stay and it will be one of the tools that will get us out of our current...

The Tipping Point in Business and the Cultural Innovator - Crowdsourcing Week

The Tipping Point in Business and the Cultural Innovator

The recent high profile demise of beloved UK entertainment retail brand, HMV, promoted a feeling of national mourning, as another established and seemingly permanent business began to disappear. But it also represents a tipping point for business as we know it. We have reached a point now where the ‘obvious’ future of established brands, businesses and infrastructures are no longer assured, simply by protocol and acceptance of ‘the only option’ or ‘the way it has always been’.

Board of Directors = Enemy of Innovation?

  (reposted from 15 Inno) I recently provided five reasons why executives do a poor job on innovation and although this makes it difficult for innovation leaders to do their job, I am glad to say that things are changing for the better. A new generation of...

Innovation Depends on Trust, Diversity and Knowledge Networks

“… knowledge diversity facilitates all types of contributions to open innovation projects” When we talk about interactions between companies and its exterior stakeholders, we can say that the knowledge or cultural diversity or even diversity with...

Be Competitively Unpredictable!

Can open innovation help your company become competitively unpredictable? Well, in this video, I start out by talking about John Conoley, a CEO at Psion, who said that this objective was one of the key reasons for him to pursue open innovation.

Open Innovation: Needs versus Opportunities

Too often, open innovation initiatives at big companies focus on needs – and needs only. You have a specific challenge to solve, you write up rfp’s and you reach out in your network. Solving problems is an important element of open innovation and it can bring lots of...

Max Sidorov: Social Maverick or Just a Nice Guy?

So what has not been said or covered by the media when it comes to Max Sidorov. Some call him a saint, others call Max a hero but Karen Klein just calls Sidorov — “a nice guy.” Personally, as a father and son, I would just like to shake his hand and buy him a...