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To Beat Foreign Copycats, Sell Services
In his Bloomberg Businessweek article, Vivek Wadhwa discusses the benefits to being a service business and how small businesses can get to know customers better, satisfy them more and keep them longer. Click here to read the full article.
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Vijay Vaitheeswaran of “The Economist” Discusses Open Services Innovation
In the audio clip included below, The Economist Healthcare Correspondent Vijay Vaitheeswaran discusses Professor Henry Chesbrough’s new book Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business
How Innovation Changed While Nokia Wasn’t Looking: Henry Chesbrough Video Interview
Professor Henry Chesbrough speaks with Gary Hamel,Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School and Director of the Management Lab. This interview originally appeared on the MIX
The Future of How We Consume Things
We often look at innovation in terms of the new products and technologies that come to market. We don’t often think about how we consume these new offerings. But that’s what is far more important. Our lives are shaped by how we interact with the “things” or “stuff”
Innovators Must Co-create with Customers
Excerpted with permission of the publisher, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., from Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era by Henry Chesbrough. Copyright (c) 2011 by
Economic Growth Requires the Viagra of Local Leadership
In a recent article on the Guardian’s website, David Marlow, former chief executive at Doncaster metropolitan borough council and director of Third Life Economics, explores how political and economic developments provide possible models and ideas for Local Economic Partnerships and their leaders. Marlow
Nokia, Microsoft Team Up To Get In Smart-Phone Race
In his Investor’s Business Daily article, writer Brian Deagon discusses the strategic partnership between Nokia and Microsoft. Professor Henry Chesbrough is quoted in the piece and explains that “Four years ago the world changed and Nokia did not keep up with that change. Nokia got hit by a major
How the U.S. Can Win the Innovation Game
Reminding us of earlier eras when threats from Japan and Russia forced us to raise our innovation game, President Obama eloquently articulated the imperative for our country to once again meet the challenge of international competition by rededicating ourselves to innovation in his recent State of
Can American Innovators Stay Ahead of Rising Asian Rivals?
In the article “The red menace, reconsidered,” which appeared in The Economist, the authors ask whether “China will eclipse America as the world’s innovation powerhouse andnd where will the good, well-paid jobs of the future come from in developed countries if Asia’s rise continues?”
Paul Hobcraft Book Review: “Open Services Innovation”
Click here to read Paul Hobcraft’s review of Henry Chesbrough’s new book
