8 Differences Between Traditional and Collaborative Leaders
The modern workplace is changing. As businesses seek innovative solutions to a challenging economic environment, companies are trying different approaches to increase productivity, engage workers and...
View ArticleOpen Innovation: A 21st Century Phrase With Power
Most can remember the hoodie wearing founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerburg strolling across the stage of his F8 conferences talking about how he wants Facebook to make the world a more open place. His...
View ArticleInnovation by Competition: How Challenges and Competition Get the Most Out of...
Crowdsourcing has become the 21st century’s alternative to problem solving in place of traditional employee-based strategies. It has become the modern solution to provide for needed services, content,...
View ArticleInnovation In Unlikely Places
A recent piece on Inc.com highlights how a moment of inspiration — extracting a cork from a wine bottle — resulted in The Innovation Story of the Year – a new way to safely extract babies stuck in the...
View ArticleNASA’s Crowdsourcing Journey
InnoCentive and an online audience were joined yesterday by NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) as they described their “crowdsourcing journey”: their experiences...
View Article9 Important Messages on Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
by Stefan Lindegaard Here you get some of the messages I shared at the Innovation Lab conferences for small and medium sized companies in the Baltic region. I think they are globally universal so I...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Common Sense in Innovation
by Stefan Lindegaard Why do companies – or rather people in the companies – miss out on obvious things so often? Why can’t they implement the initiatives or take the actions that seem to be common...
View ArticleA Bad Start on Challenge Driven Innovation: Transport for London
by Stefan Lindegaard Here you get another take in my series of good and bad examples on crowdsourcing. This time, it is not so positive as it has been with LEGO and Amazon. The key message: If you...
View ArticleBrainstorming Sessions: Why They Come up Short and How to Fix Them
Guest post by JT Ripton Collaborating with colleagues is a great way to come up with new ideas if you’re stuck in a rut. But believe it or not, most brainstorming sessions waste time and end up in...
View ArticleA Safe Approach to Open Innovation for Big Companies
by Stefan Lindegaard Most companies have embraced open innovation today, but their efforts are still very different. Some get it, some don’t and some are still trying. I would guesstimate that about...
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