I will review the Elite Fly Team Water Bottle and ordered a set of the Fly Granfondo Elite White version. I will try to answer the question "How did Elite further innovate the water bottle ?" and compare the Elite Fly Team with for example the Elite Corsa-, Tacx Shiva- or Zefal Arctica thermo water bottle. … [Read more...]
Design a Better Business – Book review
Design a Better Business is the result of a hunderd-day-race of Patrick van der Pijl from Business Models Inc, Justin Lokitz from Business Models San Francisco and Lisa Kay Solomon co-author of the bestseller Moments of Impact. Designers Maarten van Lieshout and Erik van der Pluijm completed the Design a Better Business (book)team. Based on the design thinking model (double loop) various must-have tools, skills and case studies are discussed for each phase in the model. So let's dive into the … [Read more...]
Process Model Canvas – Marco Bijl, James P. Devlin and David Ruting
The Process Model Canvas is developed by Marco Bijl, James P. Devlin and David Ruting and is complementary to Alexander Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas. The Process Model Canvas will help you define the operating model that needs to be adopted, but HOW do you do that? … [Read more...]
Creating employee networks that deliver open innovation – Jasper de Valk et al 2011
Creating employee networks that deliver open innovation by Eoin Whelan, Salvatore Parise, Jasper de Valk & Rick Aalbers is (recently) published in MITSloan Management Review and got my attention via a Twitter message of Jasper de Valk. Employee Networks - An Introduction "A small number of idea scouts and idea connectors are disproportianately influential in producing successful open innovation outcomes. Smart companies make sure they are linked." The leading research question for … [Read more...]
Flare Innovation Impact Matrix
A link to the Flare Innovation Impact Matrix was shared by fellow friend Fenno Verdaasdonk. In this article I will describe the Flare Innovation Impact Matrix and try to look at connections with business model generation and corporate effectuation. What or who is Flare Innovation? Flare Innovation is a "collective of experienced innovators and specialists operating in the wider field of innovation and new product development". … [Read more...]
Innovation Management with the Microsoft Project Server 2010
Some time ago I attended the event "Innovatie management op het Microsoft-platform" where I could experience a cool intersection of open innovation and information technology. CXS B.V., a joint venture between Campana & Schott and Corporate Project Solutions, shared a case study at a marketleading pharmaceutical company, where they've build an innovation management solution build up-on Microsoft Project Server 2010. What is open innovation ? Let's start with a quick look at the term … [Read more...]
What is Open Innovation ?
What is Open Innovation? Professor Henry Chesbrough shook up the business world with his book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology back in 2003. In 2006 professor Chesbrough released another book Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape and in 2011 Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era. This illustrates that the open innovation field has innovated itself, and therefore I would … [Read more...]
Microsoft Docs – Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps + Facebook > Google Docs ?
Last week Facebook announced the release of Microsoft Docs -a collaborative project of Microsoft and Facebook- during the Facebook F8 conference. In addition to the Microsoft Docs introduction of Lili Cheng, General Manager of FUSE Labs, you can read the following description of Microsoft Docs on the Fuse Labs website: "Discover. Create. Share. Now you can discover, create, and share Microsoft Office documents with your Facebook friends. Built using Microsoft Office 2010 – Docs for … [Read more...]
