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Chesbrough on Open Services Innovation
On the customerthink website, Andrea Meyer posted a blog about Henry Chesbrough’s most recent book, Open Services Innovation which describes co-creating with your customers, particularly in services where it’s harder for customers to specify what they want because so much of the experience is tacit. What’s exciting for innovators is that precisely
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An Interview With Henry Chesbrough
The Social Economic Council of Flanders published an interview in SERV-magazine with Open Innovation pioneer Henry Chesbrough. In the interview Chesbrough addressed questions such as how open services innovation supports cooperation between companies especially small and medium ones; how thinking of
From Commodities to Services
An article on the Forbes website analyzes Allevo, a Romanian company which has decided to “open source” its core business. It is shifting its business model and competition from a pure commodity space to a more diversified services space. And they also walk the innovation talk, because innovation
Open Innovation Defined
Remo Knops’ blog notes that Henry Chesbrough shook up the business world with his book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology back in 2003. In 2006 professor Chesbrough released another book Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape
Services Innovation
The Sourcingfocus website reports that companies with an eye for the future are turning their focus to the emerging field of Services Sciences. Nowhere is the concept of open innovation more vital than in delivering services. Let’s turn to an example of “open services innovation.” Think
What Is the Benefit of an Open Innovation Process?
In this slideshow on the Slideshare.net website, Jose Briones notes that Open Innovation is now a very fashionable term and many companies are rushing to implement an open innovation process without fully understanding its value nor how it fits within their existing product development process. The
The App Economy and Open Services Innovation
An article on the National Review website argues that the most successful firms manage to create open platforms that other firms can build on — instead of relying solely on in-house talent, you can draw on the entrepreneurial energy of thousands and potentially millions of people you’d never dream
Open Services Innovation
In his blog, Irving Wladawsky-Berger discusses some of the issues raised in Henry Chesbrough’s book, Open Services Innovation. He notes that Chesbrough’s key argument for the importance of services innovation is the serious competitive challenge
The Evolution of Open Innovation: An Interview with Henry Chesbrough
In this article on the TMCNet site, Henry Chesbrough discusses the evolution of open innovation, what it takes to succeed at open innovation, where it might not gain traction, and how it compares with open-source innovation models. Chesbrough coined the term “open innovation” with the publication
Open Services Innovation: Road Runner Sports
The Plantescompany blog reports that Road Runner Sports offers a new twist on guru advice – a computerized assessment based on a video of the shopper running on a treadmill, a pad measuring where the runner places the weight of his feet and runner-provided information. Road Runner Sports turns