The model of Open Innovation is hugely beneficial in Pharma industry. Many of the reasons for this are highlighted in this article, written by Roy F. Waldron, a pharmaceutical executive. Let's consider the benefits of Open Innovation in Pharma. Think on two companies scrambling to be...
We often talk about Open Innovation as something theoretical, so I invite you to read this report by Erin Millar, from The Globe and Mail, which I link here. It has a very revealing title: “How outsiders solve problems that stum experts”. It speaks of...
I found an interesting article titled: “Finland is about to start using crowdsourcing to create new laws”. It talks about the use of technology in collaborative models for a more direct democratic approach. Finland relies on technology to develop a new political collaborative model able to...
This Ted Talk by Jason Fried, author of Rework and co-founder of 37 sinalgs, starts with a question that I'm sure everyone has asked themselves at some moment: Why people don't really work at the office? Why the best place to work for some is...
In this video Lynda Gratton, authors of The Shift, explains how can we face our future at work. She considers that future is already here, that it is full of paradoxes or contradictions and that we have to change our way of thinking to include...
This Ted Talk I post is a bit old, however in my opinion, it remains extremely current. Charles Leadbeater is the author of We-Think: Mass innovation, not mass production: The Power of Mass. In the video, he explains why open innovation is the future. Users and community's...
"Traditional Strategy is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra". This is the categorical affirmation that Nilofer Merchant, specialist in business strategy, makes in the article about strategies of large corporations in the 2.0 era, here is the link. The text was published before the launch of...
Have you ever heard about Wikinomics? It is a macroeconomic model developed by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams (Wikinomics, 2006). They first talked about this concept six years ago when they exposed the influence that collaboration and mass actions had into corporate structures. Then,...
Open Innovation is most often associated with technological and industrial developments. In recent years, this model has provided significant achievements in many social fields such as the fight against malnutrition. Scientists Without Borders designs and starts global projects through a free crowdsourcing platform where experts from...
Internet and social networking have decisively changed personal relationships between consumers and companies. Doc Searls, co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto, believes we are entering a new era where consumer's intent will be the big economic stimulus. The era of client driven innovation. This means that, in...