I just red “Open Innovation Revolution” and the answer to the above-mentioned question is not clear for me. Namely in SME, radical innovation (even in a open innovation perspective) should always be handled by a specific team?
“Do you have any experience from working with Lead Customers?
We are looking to engage Lead Customers/Early Adopters in our development work. Do you have anything to share, e.g. how to identify them?”
I would be interested in your thoughts as to which innovation strategy (Open Innovation or User Driven) you think is best suited for B2B industrial products companies to initiate. Why?
Is there room for both strategies / methodologies to coexist within the same organization? Why? Why not?
Lastly. how does this choice change (or does it) if it were a B2C products company?
Thanking you in advance for your feedback.
Regards,
Rich
MBA Candidate University of London – RHUL
rm119@student.london.ac.uk
There are just too many conferences on OI. Let us say you want to send a number of co-workers on just one conference per year – which one should you choose?
Perhaps it would be a good blog topic to list the ten most important OI conferences with pros and cons.
I am working on a blog post that offers advice on how a company can implement open innovation. My idea is to break this into phases such as
Pre-launch: A planning phase with a strong focus on strategic and organizational issues.
Launch: Focus on internal and external issues that must work well from Day 1.
Take-Off: Focus on how to gain momentum through adjustments and further development – 0-12 months after lunch.
Next Level: Actions that can take the initiative to the next level – 12-24 months after launch.
I hope you get the idea of the phases. It would be great to hear your input on this. Some questions: Better way to organize the phases? What specific issues should be addressed in the phases?...
Are there any examples of commercial organisations that have engaged in commercially succesful Open Innovation projects and were able to solve the intellectual property issues in such a way that the whole community that was involved in the innovation got to share the IP rights as well?
What did the business model look like?
I hear more and more requests on how to apply metrics to open innovation.
Personally, I do not really believe in metrics. The innovation community (companies, consultants and academics) has tried this for the last 20 years on innovation in general, but no success.
I agree that companies need some metrics to evaluate and hopefully convince executives that open innovation work, but they need to be careful not to turn this into too much of an issue. It is just so difficult getting this right and the efforts spend trying to get this right can be used in other ways.
What kind of metrics should we focus on? What works? What metrics can we compare across companies / industries?
looking for a management tool for the Ideas and innovations process in our company, Only see a commercial ones, does any body know any Opensource if so, which one do you recomend?
My MBA International Management dissertation is an opportunity to analyse a business or management issue issue in depth as an independent research project. While, I have selected Innovation as my area of reseach. That said, I am casting a wide net, to gather suggestions for unique & meaningful research topics. For example, a few of the topic areas I am considering are as follows:
1) Smart products and their specific characteristics and success factors.
2) Leveraging outside organizations e.g., university tech transfer, or similar research & develoment organizations in the pursuit of the next big idea.
3) Smart Product – Service Systems…In order to maintain company value, the establishment of a service framework around the core product becomes of value to both...
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