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“Working closely with 100%Open, we tapped into expert communities to create an iPhone application, Do Some Good, where lots of small actions can have a big impact.” Jogesh Limbani, Head of Open Innovation, Orange Labs UK
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Home of the Future
February 10, 2012 – 10:54 pm
In 2010, we ran a pilot project, Power to the People, that engaged with over 1,000 E.ON customers. Last summer, we opened a new challenge focused on a particular business area, electric vehicles. ...
What are big businesses for?
January 30, 2012 – 2:52 am
Having recently spent a few days in Cornwall - which positions itself as a small business economy with some of the highly innovative companies - it prompted me to rethink what big businesses are actually for? Does ...
How to ensure that idea platforms don’t take employees for granted
January 24, 2012 – 7:19 pm
Businesses are increasingly turning to internal idea platforms to unite their people around innovation. I had only ever thought of this as a positive until I came across this thoughtful post called Are Your Social Business Systems Designed for Extraction or Contribution? CV Harquail's key point ...
Surmounting Barriers to Open Innovation
December 2, 2011 – 3:39 am
I chaired an open innovation session at the British Library this week and we heard a lively exchange of views and some informative presentations from Orange, Quantum Innovation, P&G and Unilever. Nice to see the latter two competitors sharing the stage.
We conducted a mini-crowd sourcing exercise ...
Towards Global Innovation Ecosystems
November 29, 2011 – 3:41 pm
Open innovation is growing up fast. We are noticing a trend from running below-the-radar pilot projects, to rapidly scaling open innovation to become a much more mainstream business practice. In particular, we've been asked to do ...
Delivering the prize to our E.ON Challenge winner
November 17, 2011 – 8:01 pm
For the past few months, we've been working with E.ON and their customers on a creative collaboration to design the next generation of energy saving products and services.
We're running a series of challenges on different themes. Members of the collaboration community can submit and discuss ideas, and vote on ...
Open Innovation Accelerator 2012
October 31, 2011 – 5:19 pm
We are pleased to announce the return of the Open Innovation Accelerator on February 1st 2012 in London.
We have now run dozens of these for various organisations but ...
Give to Get
October 25, 2011 – 7:15 pm
Innovation isn’t just a ‘thing’ that can be manufactured, rather, to quote Verna Allee, it is an emergent property of networks.
Therefore it makes perfect sense for any individual or organization that wants ‘more innovation’ to ...
Help research the UK Maker community
October 19, 2011 – 2:43 pm
I’m doing a research project for O’Reilly UK. O’Reilly are the publishers of Make magazine and the Makezine.com website; they’re the people behind Maker Faire and Maker Shed; and they publish great books on Arduino, circuit-bending, ...
How diligent is your due diligence?
October 11, 2011 – 3:00 pm
When buying into in a company any investor worth their salt will undertake some investigation into the quality of the opportunity before them. They do their homework. But are they being as diligent as they could be?
Stages in ...
