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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 a product sale into a high-value experience that
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Services Innovation Essential for Advanced Economies
“Service innovation is essential for advanced economies as more than 70% of their GDP is generated by services” was the thrust of the keynote speech given by Professor Jos Lemmink, the Oce website reports. Lemmink spoke at a symposium marking the opening of the Open Innovation Center in
Letting Your Customers Design Your Products
The Inc. website reports that when Brazil’s most popular automaker, Fiat, sought a design for its 2009 concept vehicle, the Fiat Mio, rather than turning inward to its core team of designers and engineers to come up with the new look, the company turned outward—and let the world decide how
Innovating With Services
An article on the Financial Post website notes that in this difficult economic climate, most executives are looking to improve competitiveness and profitability by becoming more innovative. One way to outflank competition, meet increasing customer demands and improve revenues is to target innovation
Open Services Innovation: A Review
On the Blogging About Business website, Bob Morris reviews Henry Chesbrough’s most recent book. In his previous articles and books Henry Chesbrough has a great deal of value to say about results-driven, multi-dimensional collaboration/co-creation within and beyond any organization. His latest
SAP Co-Innovation Lab: Collaborative, Open Innovation
A “skunkworks” R&D approach is no longer the norm writes Terri Griffith on the Gigaom site. Instead, the Internet and intranets allow ideas to come from almost anywhere: this is Open Innovation. An interesting example of Open Innovation is the SAP Co-Innovation Lab as SAP and its partners
IBM’s New Services Innovation Lab Aims to Make Services Smarter
This post on the “Smarter Planet” blog describes IBM’s Services Innovation Lab, a new initiative aimed at weaving the Research and Development–two activities that are often separate– together with the goal of bringing differentiated services to market more quickly and
Why Open Services Are the Future of Innovation
In his review in Fast Company, Adrian Ott says that Henry Chesbrough’s book “Open Services Innovation,” provides an integrated approach and framework that explains much of what’s happening today. He adds that the book demonstrates through real-world case studies that services
Open Services Innovation—an extension of the open paradigm
In this review of the book “Open Services Innovation” on the blog “SustainableInnovation,” Antti Hautamaki argues that the best part of the book is the discussion of extending services innovation outside one’s organization and shows the role of Specialization, Economies
VW Uses Open Innovation to Design Future of Car Entertainment
Paul Arnold discusses Volkswagen’s use of open innovation to create a more intimate experience for its customers in his article, “App My Ride, ” in Ideaconnection. The article shows how companies are using open innovation contests to foster co-creation thinking to develop better solutions