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Open Services Innovation: Road Runner Sports

Open Services Innovation: Road Runner Sports

By • on October 8, 2011

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

Services Innovation Essential for Advanced Economies

By • on October 6, 2011

“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

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Letting Your Customers Design Your Products

Letting Your Customers Design Your Products

By • on October 4, 2011

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

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Innovating With Services

Innovating With Services

By • on September 17, 2011

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

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Open Services Innovation: A Review

Open Services Innovation: A Review

By • on August 21, 2011

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

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SAP Co-Innovation Lab: Collaborative, Open Innovation

SAP Co-Innovation Lab: Collaborative, Open Innovation

By • on August 17, 2011

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

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IBM’s New Services Innovation Lab Aims to Make Services Smarter

IBM’s New Services Innovation Lab Aims to Make Services Smarter

By • on August 12, 2011

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

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Why Open Services Are the Future of Innovation

Why Open Services Are the Future of Innovation

By • on August 10, 2011

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

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Open Services Innovation—an extension of the open paradigm

Open Services Innovation—an extension of the open paradigm

By • on July 21, 2011

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

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VW Uses Open Innovation to Design Future of Car Entertainment

VW Uses Open Innovation to Design Future of Car Entertainment

By • on July 19, 2011

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

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