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Our recent work
“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
100% Open blog
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 ...
The Apple Exception
October 8, 2011 – 11:33 pm
I've been drawn to the many tributes and obituaries of Steve Jobs in recent days, and particularly enjoyed this excellent piece from Stephen Fry, and also this interesting article which makes the case ...
What Exactly Is Crowdsourcing?
September 18, 2011 – 3:38 am
From Buzzword to Byword
There's a new taxonomy of Crowdsourcing just been published here. Any way of helping crowdsourcing to become more than a buzzword has got to be welcomed. This taxonomy is a great step in that direction. However the practice of grouping a ...
What you really need, is a need…
September 11, 2011 – 7:05 pm
What drives innovation? A personal vision? Of course. A new technology? Sometimes (though solutions don't always need new technology). Recognition of a need can and should also drive it. Without a need for the ...
