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Open the New Black for Mobile Voice Services
An article on the website TechZone360 noted that the situation in the telecom industry is dire. But it is survivable by intelligent, innovative companies that have the courage to fund essential modernization and the farsightedness to embrace new strategic identities. Mobile operators can change this negative narrative into positive results by embracing
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Escaping the Commodity Trap
The Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation posted a blog which noted that the amount of time a product lasts in the market before a new and improved one takes its place is shrinking. As a result, even successful products can expect to enjoy an advantage in the market for a shorter time than in the past.
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Talking #Open Innovation with Prof. Henry Chesbrough
The IntelligentHQ website posted an interview with Henry Chesbrough. Chesbrough has written extensively on the topic of open innovation, a term that he coined in his award-winning book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology . More recently, Chesbrough has turned
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Open Services Innovation
The Prezi website posted a slide show by Leidy Tatiana Rodriguez Torres showing how he concept of Open Innovation can be applied to services industries. The collective intelligence of a larger group of people exceeds that of a few, both in terms of ideas and knowledge. We know much less about how
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GE: Profiting from Open Services Innovation
The Innovation Excellence website posted an article by Henry Chesbrough which notes that as new products come to market with increasing frequency and take valuable market share, more and more companies are finding it increasingly challenging to keep up and compete. Product life span is further shortened
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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
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
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