How Amazon Turned Their Services into a Platform
The Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation website posted an article which noted that it is not safe to rely on only excellent service to sustain your competitive advantage as a services provider because competitors will learn from you. A more robust approach is to turn your service into a platform for others to build on. Amazon is a great example
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Delivering Innovation Through Service
The RealWire website reported that creating everything as a service (XaaS) and delivering innovation is set to be the major driver of IT development this year as XaaS becomes the preferred consumption model for enterprises. In its conference sessions, the European Software and Solutions Summit (incorporating
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The Economics Of Open Source
An article on the Tech Crunch website reported that the success of technology companies using open source, and the apparent failure of open source is a head scratcher. Yet both are true, but not for the reasons some would have you believe. The success or failure of open source is not the software
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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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Open Innovation 2012
The Open Innovation Platform of the European Commission posted an article which represents one perspective of the need to create a new societal fabric for user-centric innovation, especially for the services sector. The knowledge-intense services will be the key for the creation of new growth beyond
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Adding Service Innovation
The postcrescent website notes that for many years companies have been focusing their offerings to end users on their products. Today we see companies are realizing they can increase the value they deliver by also adding service innovation to their portfolio. This trend is often associated with business
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OpenInnovation: Past and Present
In this interview on the website Innovation Management, Henry Chesbrough discusses a few key aspects of the relatively new and challenging open innovation model: its evolution, its applicability and most importantly, its essential role in facilitating knowledge creation for the future. He describes
The Evolution of Services
Speaking at the European Conference on Information Systems in Barcelona June 10-13, Henry Chesbrough describes the evolution to services in the economy as a whole and in many companies in this video: Henry Chesbrough on Services Innovation
Open Innovation Defined
Remo Knops’ blog notes that Henry Chesbrough shook up the business world with his book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology back in 2003. In 2006 professor Chesbrough released another book Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape
What Is the Benefit of an Open Innovation Process?
In this slideshow on the Slideshare.net website, Jose Briones notes that Open Innovation is now a very fashionable term and many companies are rushing to implement an open innovation process without fully understanding its value nor how it fits within their existing product development process. The