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Tag Archives: Innovation
Crowdsourcing: Going Above and Beyond Consumer Products
(This piece was originally posted to the HeroX blog) In the past few years, crowdsourcing has finally come of age as a powerful open innovation tool allowing organizations – including corporations, government agencies, and non-profits – to use external crowds to … Continue reading
What Is Holding Your Business Back from Becoming the Next Big Thing?
(This piece was originally posted to the HeroX blog) As a famous line (wrongfully attributed to Charles Darvin) reads: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is … Continue reading
Five Barriers to Adopting Open Innovation and How to Overcome Them
(This piece was originally posted to the HeroX blog) A friend of mine, an innovation consultant, likes to joke: “Innovation is simple…but not easy.” The same can be said about open innovation. Henry Chesbrough, who introduced the concept of open innovation … Continue reading
Posted in Crowdsourcing, Innovation
Tagged “not invented here” syndrome, co-creation, Crowdsourcing, Henry Chesbrough, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Incremental Innovation, Innovation, Innovation Management, innovation tools, IP Rights, NASA, Open Innovation, Open Innovation Tools, R&D processes, Startups
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Does the Term “Closed Innovation” Still Have Meaning?
(This piece was originally posted to the HeroX blog) Remember the famed Bell Labs, once a powerful R&D center for the telecommunication equipment company Lucent Technologies (acquired by Nokia in 2016)? Bell Labs’ researchers are credited with the development of radio … Continue reading
The Role of Diversity in Innovation
(This piece was originally posted to the HeroX blog) Can labor laws affect innovation? To many people, this question may sound nonsensical. Why would such a boring thing like labor law have anything to do with an exciting act of creating … Continue reading
Posted in Crowdsourcing, Innovation
Tagged Boston Consulting Group, cognitive diversity, Credit Suisse, Crowdsourcing, Deloitte, Diversity, ENDAs, HeroX, Inclusion, Innovation, innovation tools, Katherine W. Phillips, McKinsey, Open Innovation, open innovation services providers, Open Innovation Tools, S&P 500
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What Can Dancing Teach Us About Innovation?
Many organizations treat corporate innovation as a child: unpredictable, capricious, and difficult to control. And as it often happens to us adults, we feel an irresistible urge to pontificate, to teach the child a lesson. I’m amazed at the popularity … Continue reading
Innovating With Competitors
(This piece was originally posted to the HeroX blog) With the waves of disruption rocking every corner of the global economy – dethroning powerful incumbents while skyrocketing to fame brazen startups – innovation isn’t a luxury anymore. It’s a means of … Continue reading
Posted in Crowdsourcing, Innovation
Tagged Coopetition, Crowdsourcing, Ford, GM, Innovation, Innovation Management, Microsoft, Open Innovation, Open Innovation Tools, Samsung, Sony, Tesla
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Innovation’s “Uncharted Waters”
(This piece was originally posted to the HeroX blog) A few years ago, Wazoku, a UK idea management software company, sponsored an innovation survey. The results of the survey are a cause of concern for anyone interested in corporate innovation. Full … Continue reading
Innovation: The Role of Money and Government
Over the past couple of months, I have attempted to assess the role of a few major socio-economic factors on the national innovation potential. To do that, I ran a series of simple regression tests to estimate the correlation between … Continue reading
Innovation and Money
In my previous post, I further explored the notion that the ability of a country to innovate correlates with the level of political freedoms in this country. In particular, I showed that no such correlation exists for non-democratic countries (as … Continue reading
