Comments on: When Sony, Japan Goes Open, Everyone Should Pay Attention

By: Three Ways to Win With Your Great Ideas « Business Models « Innovation Leadership Network

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:54:19 +0000

[...] by having a better network: Stefan Lindegaard revisits the Sony Betamax story today. My thought while reading his post is that Betamax really failed because its value network [...]

By: George King

George King — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:07:10 +0000

And how soon will the innovation ideas of country X be our sourced to country Y ??? I have had good patents go unused because of NIH of other divisions. Yes good ideas are where you find them, but jobs seem to only go to the bottom of the heap.

By: Stefan Lindegaard

Stefan Lindegaard — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:24:34 +0000

@Sam, I appreciate your comments as I know you have a good understanding of the Japanese market. Sony and Daiichi Sankyo are the only two examples I know of right now. I did a quick check on LinkedIn and this supports your point of view.

I hope the cases of Sony and Daiichi Sankyo will drive the open innovation movement forward. Perhaps you can give us an update on this a year or so from now.

@Deborah, I like your point about the level of pain Sony is in.

By: Victor Newman

Victor Newman — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:10:08 +0000

I always understood that the Betamax failure was due to decision of the Los Angeles pornographers to standardise on VHS. The rest is history.

By: Nisse

Nisse — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:10:51 +0000

I wonder how Sonys experience with the PS3 counts? Though the PS3 is not extremely succesfull, I think that Sony tried to use some standards and collaboration with others. The use of USB-hubs and the inclusion of the Blu-Ray player should count as positive here.

By: Deborah Mills-Scofie

Deborah Mills-Scofie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:07:25 +0000

It also highlights the 'adage' of the pain has to get bad enough for you to do something. The 'pain' at Sony is now bad enough that they have to look at, what is for them, dramatic alternatives to how they've done business in the past. The "what got you here won't get you there". It would be good for the industry to have Sony become a viable, desirable competitor again. And Stringer is the 1st non-Japanese CEO – wonder what part that plays..

By: Sam Kondo

Sam Kondo — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:05:58 +0000

Hi Stefan

I have been spending considerable time the last couple of years discussing with and listening to Japanese companies about this open innovation trend in their own language, and I really cannot find concrete evidence that these companies are "getting it". Most is hype and exaggerations. If you find such concrete evidence I would be glad to learn more about it. Actually it seems to me that Japanese companies operated more according to open processes in the early postwar years.

Sam – http://www.millionbrains.com