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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

The ‘license’ often include information about the collaborators, how the risks are shared, how the pofits are shared and to what extend the technology or information may or may not be altered or adapted. Route 4: Collaborative Innovation. Route 5: Co-engineering. More info: Steen, Manschot & De Koning (2011).

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Technological Know-How Is a Job Requirement

Harvard Business Review

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Even internal collaboration tools, such as Basecamp, salesforce, and Sharepoint, should be subject to detailed business case and ROI analyses.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. GE is now approaching $1 billion in new revenue annually from their expanded software and data activities.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Cut layers.

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New York City's Culture Will Shape the Next Tech Sector

Harvard Business Review

We believe that when this incredible professional diversity collides with software engineering talent, you have the recipe for breakthrough innovation. And what''s even more interesting, between 2007 and 2011, a time when venture capitalism was down 11% nationally, New York saw growth of 32%.

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A Story from Google Shows You Don’t Need Power to Drive Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. He had to find willing partners that he could collaborate with.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, Thierry Andretta, the CEO of French fashion company Lanvin, announced an initiative called "no email Wednesdays" because he thought people had stopped actually talking to each other. Atomic Object, a software company in Michigan, put in place a standing-only rule in meetings, to keep them focused and short.