Open Innovation Past and Present: Henry Chesbrough Interview
The Innovation Management website posted an interview with Henry Chesbrough, considered the father of open innovation. Though intensely talked about, open innovation remains a subject matter that both fascinates and creates apprehension among business professionals. In the interview Chesbrough discusses a few key aspects of this largely new and challenging
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Why Bad Things Happen To Good Technology
In an article on the Wall Street Journal website, Henry Chesbrough notes that in most companies, innovation is the responsibility of the technical side of the organization. The research and development staff is supposed to come up with the cool new technologies, and the rest of the company takes them
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4 revolutionary business models
The Myob website notes that a business model is not focused on what you do but HOW your business creates, delivers and captures value. Much has been written about the impact of online businesses on traditional brick and mortar business. However, going online does not change the core business in
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Open Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship
The ESADE Business School in Barcelona has announced a program on Open Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship. Creating new markets, embracing new business models, and identifying new customer segments within existing business units is a major challenge. Companies that don’t innovate will
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Think local
The Business Standard website noted that to compete with global challengers and crack the middle market, multinationals will need to go through the same intense process of analysis and design they did to develop their current successful business models. In most cases, some degree of business model
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Interview with Alexander Osterwalder
The SiliconRepublic website posted an interview with Alexander Osterwalder, author of the best-selling book, Business Model Generation. In the interview Osterwalder noted that in recent years in working with start-ups and large organizations, he noticed many tended to be very product and technology
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Chesbrough on Open Innovation in Life Sciences
The journal Nature published an interview with Henry Chesbeough. The article noted that open innovation has taken the business world by storm. In his 2003 breakout book, Chesbrough argued — based largely on observations of the computer industry — that companies need to look beyond their walls
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The Business Model, A Canvas for Growing Innovation
In a post on the Innovation Excellence website, Paul Hobcraft reports on the Business Design Summit held in Berlin April 19-20. The summit became the place for innovation ‘tool-smiths’ to meet and begin forging and crafting new tools needed for innovation. These are aimed to help us in
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If You Can’t Win, Change the Game
The Memphis Daily News published an article noting that in today’s dynamic world it is imperative for companies to continually realize growth through a sustainable competitive advantage. The trouble is that every innovation is just one new innovation away from becoming obsolete. How do proactive
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Corporate Business Model Innovation
The University of California at Berkeley Center for Executive Education has announced a program on Corporate Business Model Innovation led by Henry Chesbrough, Alex Osterwalder and Steve Blank. The announcement notes that most major corporations limit the scope of their innovation processes to the creation
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