Open Innovation: A Study About the 3M and Natura – Brazil Companies
The IberoAmerican Journal of Strategic Management posted a study whose aim is to verify how Natura and 3M businesses included open innovation in their everyday practices. The results show that open innovation is understood by companies like a strategy that permeates the ecosystem to the complement of resources, skills, technology, and valuable knowledge
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User-Driven Innovation
The DT News website noted that innovation with users is a key feature of sustainable firms that are keen to add-value and access new markets. Innovation driven by insight from users and customers helps firms and public sector to devise sound products that meets users’ needs. The pioneering work of
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Smarter Ways to Bridge the Innovation Gap
The Irish Times posted an article which noted that innovation is an essential element for business development and success, but many innovations fail. The key reasons for such failures, according to Prof Oliver Gassmann – a leader in the area of open innovation – include overengineering, poor
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Why Many Innovation Initiatives Fail
The Innovationexcellence website posted an article which asks the question, wouldn’t it be great if you could do customer service like Zappos? Or design like Apple? Or innovation like 3M? Who wouldn’t want to be like those firms? Well, it’s not so simple. The entire Zappos business model is built
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Spurring Innovation by Bringing the Outside In
The Financial Post notes that hundreds of companies are pursuing open innovation strategies (OI) to kick start creativity and crack difficult R&D problems. Reaping the rewards from OI, however, depends as much on program design and process as it does from getting creative ideas. To improve OI’s
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Nine Sigma Offers Hookup to Open Innovation
The Plastics News website noted that NineSigma Inc. provides an open innovation hub for companies’ technology needs by connecting its clients with other firms or organizations that can help them accelerate the process of meeting those needs. NineSigma’s chemists and specialists have worked