There was a great article recently in the MIT Sloan Management Review, Using Open Innovation to Identify the Best Ideas by Andrew King and Karim Lakhani, that discusses how to use open innovation, both across your company and with your customers, to find the best ideas. The article describes how companies are opening up innovation (which can be anything from game design to new products to new processes to marketing creative) but also the challenges you face when doing so. As the authors point out, success relies on finding the best ways to organize and manage the process.
Opening the ideation process
The first step in optimizing open innovation is successfully opening the idea-generation process. You need to first decide whom you are opening the process to: your entire team, the company, your key customers, all customers or the world. Once you have selected whom the process is open to, you need to create the optimal way to generate strong ideas. Continue reading “Identifying the best ideas through open innovation”
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