Open Innovation

9 Essential Characteristics of an Innovation Candidate

As the idea of innovation grows within corporate culture, both as a true practice and just as often as a term to be sprinkled about like so much PowerPoint seasoning, many companies are getting seriou...

The Currency of Social Change

"Focus on how you can drive value to a community - think of them first. @skaw #CoCreatePDMA" posted on July 27, 2011 on Twitter by Nina Miller ...

Disrupting Ourselves with Open Innovation

Yesterday at the PDMA Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation, we heard from David Ritter, CEO of InnoCentive.  David talked about using challenge-driven product development in a...

Who’s Your Crowd? The Use of Virtual Private Expert Networks

This week I’m attending the PDMA Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation. ...

The Need for Portfolio Management in the Co-Creation Process

I think Michael Norton, Jack Nickell, and Zach Smith said it best when they collectively claimed that co-creation is "opesociacollaberaticreatinnovatcrowdsourccommunitengagementifaction". ...

How Will You Create a Social Innovation Culture?

Like any new business initiative, incorporating social product innovation strategy and technology into existing innovation and product development processes is likely to encounter resistance and lack ...

The Brave New World of Open Innovation

Many leading companies are now adopting open innovation (OI) as a way to drive their new product development.  Companies such as Proctor and Gamble, IBM, LG Electronics, Kraft Foods, Reckitt Benc...

Think FaceBook is Your Company's Best Social Software Approach? Think Again.

I recently heard John Hagel, Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, speak about the effective application of social software in organizations.  Contrary to the knee jerk reaction by man...

The State of Open Innovation

How successful is Open Innovation as an innovation method? For leaders like Proctor and Gamble the answer is obvious but the same can’t be said for the vast majority of enterprises taking this r...

Social Media and Product Development – What’s Stopping Us?

Many of us have seen those “Did You Know?” videos on YouTube. With millions of views, these compelling videos give facts and stats on globalization in the information age, demonstrating the pervas...
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