“What advice would you give yourself, if you could go back and talk to yourself a year ago?” I’m pleased to say that 100%Open is exactly 1 year old today. It’s been an exhilarating and exhausting year and we’ve been on a steep learning curve. And when discussing this anniversary with one of our clients recently, [...]
I was invited to speak at an event called ‘Open Innovation, Open Data: What is it and why it matters?’ at InSpace in Edinburgh last week that was hosted by the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab and was targetted at arts and cultural organisations. It was a fun event and interested to explore the idea of [...]
February 17, 2011 – 1:19 am
We’ve been asked to sign quite a few Non Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) recently with various organisations, which is somewhat ironic for a company called 100%Open, but it’s par for the course in the innovation business I guess. And it got me thinking whether being asked to sign an NDA was actually a sign of trust [...]
January 19, 2011 – 8:18 pm
A former colleague of mine recently called me up saying that one of her partners was struggling with open innovation and asked what advice I could give them. We had quite an interesting discussion which I will attempt to reproduce below. Here are the six points which in my experience can make open innovation easier: [...]
November 20, 2010 – 9:13 pm
The FT had a good article about open innovation this week accompanied by the following image which I think is rather interesting: I must confess that when I first saw it, my first thought was that it reminds me somewhat of Mr Cheese Strings character from the recent TV adverts. But that probably says rather [...]
November 11, 2010 – 2:54 am
We hosted a number of really interesting roundtable discussions at the FT Innovate conference today on Customer Co-Creation. The title of the session was sparked by lessons we’ve been learning from a number of our recent projects with, amongst others, Orange, E.ON and Virgin Atlantic. These in different ways seek to break down the [...]
September 25, 2010 – 5:23 pm
I love these RSA Animate videos and was grateful to Jamie Smith who recently pointed me towards this animated talk by Jeremy Rifkin below on The Empathic Civilization. Watch it, it’s good! This reminds me of something we’ve been talking about for a while in relation to open innovation. Namely that people and organisations who [...]
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August 26, 2010 – 3:23 pm
The last decade has seen the rise of collaboration as a by-word for innovation success. This is now often referred to as ‘open innovation’ which we define as sharing the risks and rewards of innovation with others. This may sound simple enough and yet in our experience many large organisations struggle with implementing it as [...]
August 11, 2010 – 3:48 pm
Have you ever been asked for directions by a stranger, only to find the person head off in completely opposite direction once you’ve finished talking? I’m pleased to say this has only happened to me once or maybe twice and I can only conclude that a) I didn’t communicate the directions clearly enough or b) [...]
August 10, 2010 – 4:21 am
We are excited to announce that we are launching our latest project with Orange called Mobile Volunteering which brings together a healthy and expert mix of technology developers and social entrepreneurs and NGOs. On the site we are creating everyday opportunities for social action, kick-starting a new movement. Through an app on their mobile phone, [...]
