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Posts Tagged ‘networked innovation’

Moving from “Open Innovation” to true Open Innovation

In the 10 years since Henry Chesbrough published his groundbreaking book on Open Innovation, a lot has happened. Almost any firm claims to do Open Innovation. However, if you look closely, most of the firms do not do true Open Innovation – they are merely running a multitude of open approaches to innovation.

This article explains the fundamental differences between “Open Innovation” and true Open Innovation, provides data where firms are standing on their journey to true Open Innovation and …

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Key issues in Open Innovation networks

Recently, innovation-3’s Frank Mattes ran a high-level workshop with 6 firms from different industries on “Best Practices in managing Open Innovation networks”. The participants were at C-/SVP-level coming from Bayer (Chemical/Pharma), Beiersdorf (FMCG), Deutsche Telekom (Telco), Evonik (Chemical), Samsung (Electronics) and Siemens (Electical).

In preparing the workshop, the participants were asked to rank potential discussion topics by the importance for their respective firms. While the results are certainly not representative, they still provide an interesting insight into where leading German …

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Evidence that Open Innovation and Enterprise 2.0 become one

In the past, innovation-3 has observed from work done with its clients and discussions with leading firms (see e.g. here and here) that the management concepts of Open Innovation and Enterprise 2.0 are merging. More and more firms see these concepts as two sides of one medal and are taking a holistic approach that integrates both concepts in order to increase their innovation strength.

Recently, we ran across some figures from Forrester Research showing that innovation-3’s observations based on …

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