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Boost Your Open Innovation Endeavors with These Videos About Ideas

Jun-21-13 By IdeaConnection
Stuck on where your next idea is going to come from? Worried that the pool of inspiration is a little shallow these days?  Fear not as help is at hand with these three short videos on ideas and innovation.

First up is an exhilarating journey with popular thinker Steven Johnson on what sparks flashes of brilliance.  He believes breakthrough ideas hardly ever come from one 'eureka moment'.  His view is that they almost always take a long time to evolve.  Steven calls this his 'Slow Hunch' Theory.

Get to Grips with Open Innovation with a Free Book

Jun-19-13 By IdeaConnection
If you and your organisation are wondering whether OI and crowdsourcing are for you, or if you’re still trying to understand if and how they can be of benefit, help is close at hand.

10 Burning Questions: Your New Starting Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing Success is a free interactive eBook guide to best practices and smart ways to achieve business success through adopting OI practices.

Singapore’s Open Innovation Initiatives

Jun-17-13 By IdeaConnection
The government of Singapore has decided that it wants to ramp up innovation in the country.  Therefore, it’s going to share more data sets with both public and private sectors to increase efficiency, improve the way services are delivered, and drive social innovation.

The government has adopted a new "Open Data" mindset to get even more from the power of data.

The Rise of the Open Innovation Marketplace

Jun-14-13 By IdeaConnection
The market for open innovation services is on the rise and spreading to more diverse sectors according to a new report. The Technology and Innovation Management Group from RWTH Aachen University in Germany has just published its latest major open innovation study.

The report is a study of the market of open innovation accelerators (OIA), organizations that help their clients to include external sources of knowledge in every aspect of the innovation process.

Ben & Jerry’s Has Open Innovation Licked

Jun-12-13 By IdeaConnection
Ben & Jerry’s is at it again with another neat crowdsourcing initiative.  In a project dubbed “City Churned” the ice cream maker is turning to city locals for flavor ideas that best represent their town.

Five cities have been chosen to kick off the project – Washington DC, New York, Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco – and each one has its own microsite for votes.

LEGO Builds Success Through Open Innovation

Jun-10-13 By IdeaConnection
InnoTown, the innovation conference in Ålesund, Norway has been hearing about how open innovation saved LEGO from the brink of bankruptcy - and how the Danish makers of one of the world’s most popular construction toys is continuing to inspire more co-creation with its consumers.

In the late 1990s, children were turning away from the famous building bricks in favor of video games and computing. There were also supply chain problems and the company was facing a battle for survival.

Top Ten Ways Companies Kill Innovation

Jun-05-13 By IdeaConnection
What is the recipe for business success? If we knew all the answers most of us would be billionaires by now.  But just as important as knowing what contributes to success is having an understanding of what can stop it from ever becoming a reality, and then removing those barriers.

Forbes has compiled a list of the top ten ways that organizations kill innovation. It’s a useful roadmap for those who want to avoid shooting themselves in the foot or going the way of the dinosaurs.

Open Innovation Challenge to Design a New Kind of Bike

Jun-03-13 By IdeaConnection
Calling all petrol heads and bike enthusiasts there’s still a few days left to enter Local Motors' latest open innovation challenge - to design a motorized bike – the LM Cruiser.

The company is looking for concepts for a gas-powered motorized bicycle.  It should have retro design elements but use modern technology.

Local Motors prides itself on connecting designers, engineers, and enthusiasts to ideate, design and manufacture innovative vehicle solutions.

Open Innovation Success with Green Giant

May-30-13 By IdeaConnection
General Mills has tapped into its open innovation ecosystem - G-Win - to help it develop a new line of sauce-free seasoned frozen vegetables.

Creating a Vibrant Picture of the Past with Crowdsourcing

May-30-13 By IdeaConnection
Stanford University researchers are turning to the crowd with three crowdsourcing projects that aim to give a more nuanced understanding of times past.

They are, Year of the Bay, 500 Novels, and Living with Railroads.