Collaborative Innovation

Demystifying the Path to Technology Partnerships

There is often a considerable amount of ambiguity at the outset of open innovation partnerships. Quite often, the technology customer is considerably larger than the provider and is being pursued versus being the pursuer. The technology provider almost never knows the full extent of what needs to be demonstrated in order to earn a customer's business commitment. They are also quite often reluctant to ask so as to avoid offending the other party or seeming ignorant or unsophisticated. How can this situation be improved?

Ideascale2021-12-03T07:25:12-08:00May 10th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: action standards, Business, communicate, invest, Open Innovation, partnerships, risk, risk-free, strategic partnership, success criteria, Technology, technology transfer, transparent|

Social Media – Digital Recombinant DNA?

Social media has already fundamentally changed the way many of us live our lives or do business. In coming years its role in almost every aspect of public, private, political, commercial and community life is likely to grow; it could be seen as digital recombinant DNA, central to everything but changing and being changed, made up of millions of bits and bytes, with multiple roles, instructions and connections. This extended trend alert indicates some of the trends affecting the current development of social media, as a prelude to further discussions at a forthcoming foresight meeting in London; it does not claim to be comprehensive, but a jump off point.

Ideascale2021-12-03T07:25:07-08:00May 9th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Trend Alert|Tags: big data, Crowdsourcing, IoT, revenue, social media, trend|

A promising Approach to Finding Technology Solutions: Supplier Summits

Given the relatively small number of qualified solution providers for any given technical challenge, one fairly productive and successful problem solving approach undertaken by corporate technology seekers is to organize "supplier summits."

Ideascale2021-12-03T07:09:28-08:00May 3rd, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Support for SMEs|Tags: business development, collaborative, industrial paradigms, inner circle, networking, Open Innovation, Problem Solving, solutions, supplier summit, Technology, technology transfer, unconventional thinking, value|

Reimagining Media & Entertainment through Collaborative Innovation

Established firms in the media & entertainment space struggle to prosper in the Digital Age. New business models, enlivened by technology, erode traditional sources of profit. What possibilities for reimagining the business exist? In this article, innovation architect Doug Collins suggests one avenue to pursue: consider the benefits that come from learning how to convene a community on the critical question by embracing the practice of collaborative innovation. Apply the practice to help people work to their potential.

Ideascale2021-12-03T07:09:23-08:00May 1st, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: Best Practices, Business Model Innovation, collaborative innovation, Communication, community, Crowdsourcing, entertainment, media|

A Blueprint for Effective Collaborative Innovation

Blueprints help people envision the future in a clear, practical way. What will the finished work look like? How will we create it? What possibilities does the new creation hold? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins introduces a blueprint for the practice of collaborative innovation. The blueprint helps people envision their organization as they transform it through the practice.

Ideascale2021-12-03T07:05:15-08:00April 17th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership|Tags: Best Practices, Collaboration, collaborative innovation, community, design thinking, front end of innovation, fuzzy front end of innovation, Ideation, leadership, lean|

Observation Grounds Collaborative Innovation

The practice of collaborative innovation starts with observation: the discipline to see and grasp the nature of the work, the end user’s environment, or the world at large. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores how people who lead their organization’s collaborative innovation practice can reinforce community members’ observational skills.

Ideascale2021-12-03T07:01:04-08:00April 3rd, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, co-creation, collaborative innovation, community, customer engagement, design thinking, incentive, lean innovation, observation, Open Innovation, reflection, social media, team management, virtual|

Innovation Through Co-creation: Consumers Can be Creative

A new trend in business and product development is ‘co-creation’. By its very name it implies a collaboration between the company and some other entity. In this case it is the consumer who partners in the creation of value. The term ‘co-creation’ is not new, however, but is now receiving more attention - driven largely through the increasing use of the Internet and social media websites - as companies endeavour to differentiate themselves from the competition.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:16:51-08:00March 26th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Enabling Factors, Open Innovation|Tags: co-creation, consumer insights, Crowdsourcing, customer engagement, focus group, market research, Open Innovation, Product Development, social media, value creation|

The Problem with Open Innovation Web Portals

Michael Fruhling doesn't like open innovation portals, in general. What's his problem with them?

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:14:50-08:00March 21st, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation|Tags: boiler plate, collaborative relationships, concierge service, consumer products companies, direct collaboration, direct interaction, fundamental, gatekeepers, host company, impersonal, lessons learned, Open Innovation, opportunity incubation, platform, rejection, solution, submissions, submitters, understand, user experience, web portal|

Opening the Practice of Collaborative Innovation to the End User

Engaging end users in co-creation deepens the bonds between the organization and them. The activity can deliver economic value to all parties involved. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins highlights the critical questions that campaign teams will want to address when they pursue externally focused collaboration.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:14:37-08:00March 13th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation|Tags: co-creation, co-discovery, collaborative innovation, community, customer engagement, end user, end user engagement, enquiry-led, Eric von Hippel, goal setting, innovation campaign, social media|

Measuring the Practice of Collaborative Innovation

Developing and supporting the practice of collaborative innovation takes time and money. What do we assess to weigh its value? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins proposes focusing on strategic alignment of the program, relative advantage of the ideas, and engagement of the community members.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:12:01-08:00March 6th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: business strategy, collaborative innovation, community, customer engagement, innovation framework, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, innovation value, measure innovation, measuring ideas, measuring innovation, organization strategy, Stakeholders, Teamwork|

Product Innovation: Unifying People, Processes and Tools

Product innovation is not simply about generating new ideas. It is a complex process, and many organizations struggle with the design and implementation of an effective innovation strategy that yields measurable results over the long-term. Sustained growth and profitability can be achieved through the integration of three critical levels: People, processes and tools.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:09:06-08:00February 15th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Life Cycle Processes, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: business partners, Collaboration, Communication, communications, competitive landscape, Cross-organizational workflows, customer service, customers, employees, engineering, external stakeholder, feedback, Ideation, ideation management, Innovate, innovation process, Innovation Strategy, innovation tool, internal stakeholder, key insights, marketing, mindset, network, Open Innovation, organizational goals, Product Development, product innovation, products, sales team, Stakeholders, sustained growth, Technology|

Recasting the Internal Communications Group’s Charter through Collaborative Innovation

Organizations fund internal communications groups to develop and disseminate the central narrative for the group. Changes wrought by the Digital Age have usurped this group’s role as the exclusive interpreter and messenger for intra-firm information, however. In this article, innovation architect Doug Collins advocates that internal communications reframe and refresh its charter by embracing the practice of collaborative innovation in order to facilitate engagement amongst staff.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:08:38-08:00February 7th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: campaign team, collaborative innovation, Communication, communications, company culture, internal communications, mergers & acquisitions, social media, sponsor, Stakeholders|

Applying Collaborative Innovation to Design Thinking

“Innovate or die” becomes the order of the day. People in response seek ways to innovate. Of late, many have embraced the practice of collaborative innovation, with its application of social media to sourcing crowds and ideas, and design thinking, with its structured approach to vetting hypotheses about new business opportunities. Having arrived in the organization by different routes, they exist as potential complements. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores ways to combine the practices to their mutual benefit.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:05:39-08:00January 24th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: community, Crowdsourcing, customer research, design thinking, empathy, social media, Stakeholders|

Sourcing Crowds for Out of the Box Ideas

People who practice collaborative innovation at times seek out of the box ideas for a given challenge. In this article, innovation architect Doug Collins applies work from Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman by way of offering insights on selecting crowds that can achieve novelty.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:02:50-08:00January 10th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: anchoring, campaign team, case study, collaborative innovation, Crowdsourcing, environment, innovation campaign, intuition, Open Innovation|

How to Make Open Innovation More Open

Here are some common-sense suggestions to improve everyone's experience when implementing open innovation initiatives.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:00:15-08:00January 4th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation|Tags: communicate, evaluate, external partners, external solution, external submissions, gatekeeper, Open Innovation, submitters, Technology|