Open Innovation

Focused on working across industries, companies, departments, etc. – opposite of siloing. Crowdsourcing can fall under this goal as well, sourcing ideas from across industries, across companies, from the public, etc.

Overcoming the Challenges to Successful Open Innovation

Before any organization can reap the economic benefits of open innovation, it must overcome a number of legal, operational and cultural challenges. In this article Peter von Dyck addresses the top three obstacles to open innovation: managing intellectual property issues and other legal risks, processing ideas quickly and establishing an efficient internal structure.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:21-07:00March 3rd, 2015|Categories: Idea Management, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: Henry Chesbrough, idea management, Ideation, innovation challenge, Innovation Culture, intellectual property, IP & patent, Open Innovation, Problem Solving, risk management, structure|

10 Commandments of Effective Crowdsourcing

For the companies which have embraced the crowdsourcing mindset in their business processes, the motive is more than just outsourcing. It's about better collaboration, better innovation outcomes and ultimately superior value. But like many other new business models, some fail and some succeed in accomplishing this mission.

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:47:53-08:00January 7th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, collective intelligence, Crowdsourcing, customer engagement, knowledge sharing, Open Innovation, Problem Solving, reward, strategy|

Learning From Innovation Hubs: Fluidity, Serendipity, and Community Combined

Innovation hubs are popping up from Addis to Amsterdam and Boston to Bangalore. Fuelled by ideals of openness, community and collaboration, hubs aim to be the next orgware for innovation—beyond business incubators and R&D labs. Managers, policymakers and investors have taken note, but are grappling with how to engage. What makes hubs so appealing and can they teach innovation managers anything new?

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:43:03-08:00December 15th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, community, design thinking, incubator, innovation, innovation hub, openness, team diversity|

Fueling Your Employees’ Entrepreneurial Spirit: A New Approach to Intrapreneurs and the Value They Create

Cast your mind back, to pre-2008 times, when bright and bushy tailed graduates would come out of business school looking for roles in the relevant employers of choice. Generally those organizations were large businesses, providing incentives such as expensive dinners, a career advancement path and generous financial packages.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:49:21-08:00December 1st, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: Creativity, Employee Engagement, employee network, enterprise innovation, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, innovation team, intrapreneur, intrapreneurship, motivation, talent management, team building|

What Could Possibly Go Wrong With Open Innovation?

Everyone understands the value and promise of open innovation in the business world – from brand awareness and customer engagement through to the search for fresh answers. But, truth be told, most programmes are failing to deliver results because their dynamics are too complex and the processes used are proving inefficient. A lack of relevance is also strongly affecting returns.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:18:43-07:00November 24th, 2014|Categories: Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: case study, collective intelligence, engagement, enterprise innovation, hidden needs, Open Innovation, results, risks, Stakeholders|

Working the Crowd – Don’t Get Lost

Utilising crowd led approaches to create value is increasingly familiar in both the literature of business comment and reporting and through our own experience. Crowdassets, as we refer to them, represent a profound and enduring source of innovation and we must adapt and respond to this opportunity. In the fourth of a series of articles focused on Innovation Culture, we are going to provide a more holistic view of the concepts as well as the means to embrace the growing opportunities presented by the crowd empowered ecosystem.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:23:50-08:00November 19th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, consumer driven innovation, consumer insights, crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, in-depth article, innovation capabilities, Innovation Culture|

Should I Talk About My Co-creation Partners?

Research and practice have investigated firms’ benefits of co-creation with external stakeholders, such as more creative ideas, reduced development costs, and improved product quality. However, little is known about how consumers perceive products and their firms that communicate about such co-creation activities. Using two experimental studies, we investigated how consumers’ knowledge about the involvement of different types of stakeholders during the innovation process changes the adoption of new products.

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:38:46-08:00October 29th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Life Cycle Processes, Strategies|Tags: case study, co-creation, Collaboration, consumer insights, partnerships, Stakeholders|

The Death of Innovation Crowdsourcing (As We Know It)!

Ideation focused crowdsourcing has been around for some time, but the approach is often not producing the desired business results in order to justify continued investments. How does the model need to change in order to drive real business value?

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:50:37-08:00October 27th, 2014|Categories: Life Cycle Processes, Open Innovation|Tags: Change Management, Crowdsourcing, fuzzy front end of innovation, Ideation, innovation challenge|

Corporate Open Innovation Portals, Part II: Two Successful Case Examples

Jos Tissen of Unilever, based in the Netherlands, and Shawn Heipp of Elmer’s Products, based in Ohio, USA, have something in common. Each manages his company’s corporate innovation portal, the website used to encourage technology solution submissions from external customers, suppliers, inventors, and businesses. Tissen and Heipp describe their unique portal implementation choices and their results to date.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:18:52-07:00October 13th, 2014|Categories: Idea Management, Life Cycle Processes, Open Innovation|Tags: case study, co-creation, Crowdsourcing, digital platform, download, Ideation, in-depth article, innovation portal, Open Innovation|

3 Reasons to Innovate Without Borders

You might have noticed that organizations don’t exist in a vacuum anymore. They don’t make decisions autonomously (if, indeed, they ever did) – handing down products or processes that they guess people want. Social media and digital engagement have changed all that – the expectation is now one of a dialogue, constant communication, and constant improvement.

Rob Hoehn2019-10-15T15:18:53-07:00October 9th, 2014|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Crowdsourcing, innovation, innovation management platform, Open Innovation|

Where Your Next Great Idea Comes From: 3 Great Ideas from Surprising Places

Innovation without borders means that you’re no longer concerned about where your next great idea comes from – you’re only concerned with it being great. It means that there is no job title, mission parameter, or geography that curtails creativity or delivering on that creativity.

Rob Hoehn2019-10-15T15:18:55-07:00September 30th, 2014|Categories: Idea Management, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: brainstorming, Creativity, Crowdsourcing, Ideation, innovation, Innovation Management|

The New Normal: From Product to Platforms and Processes

Platforms and processes, rather than products, will become the focus of new business creation as we move forward. The main characteristic of a handful of new trends in business – Collaborative consumption, Sharing, the Maker movement and the Circular economy – is that the value creation is less about adding some new feature to a product. Instead, the appeal of these models is that they can deliver more value for less by involving a number of stakeholders, including the users, in co-creating solutions.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:18:58-07:00September 10th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative consumption, customer engagement, customer need, economy, innovation lifecycle, innovation platform, knowledge sharing, mass customization, platform, processes, sharing economy, superstructure, user experience|

Challenge Question Formation for Crowdsourcing

Organizations that pursue the inquiry-led form of collaborative innovation often have an outcome in mind. They may seek the “low-hanging fruit” of immediately actionable ideas. They may seek ideas that help to re-envision the business. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins reflects on how the savvy practitioner manages the challenge question formation process to help the sponsor achieve their desired goals. The key? Knowing how to dial up and dial back the level of transformation incumbent within each question.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:19:02-07:00August 26th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Life Cycle Processes, Open Innovation|Tags: collaborative innovation, Crowdsourcing, Innovation Management, innovation process|

Pushing the boundaries – part 3: Making open innovation relevant to more economic players

This is the last article in a series of three, illustrating how we can push the boundaries within open innovation research. After reading a recently published strategy book by Rita McGrath, “The end of competitive advantage”, the writer is convinced that it offers several handles to understand open innovation in a broader, strategic context.

Ideascale2021-12-05T21:11:15-08:00August 4th, 2014|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Henry Chesbrough, MOOI, Open Innovation|

The R&D department: From Innovation Engine to Part of the OI Machine?

The success of Open Innovation hinges on many organizational aspects as we have discussed extensively on the MOOI forum in the past months and will continue to do so as of September 2014 onwards. To summarize, we have discussed corporate strategy, top management, organizational structures, HR, culture, and IP in light of Open Innovation.

Ideascale2020-04-01T11:28:45-07:00July 9th, 2014|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Henry Chesbrough, MOOI, Open Innovation, R&D, research|