The hardest part of making any change is taking that first step. We may point our shoulders in the direction we want to travel, but planning our change journey and mapping the steps to get there can still feel overwhelming. This is true for co-creation and open innovation projects, change programs — even personal change….
Have you ever stopped to think your next breakthrough product may be right under your nose? Or that ‘local’ could go very global with the right development support and customer-needs tailoring? As a proud resident of Appleton, Wisconsin, I recently took a look at the surprisingly rich history of invention and innovation in my hometown…
One of the most important areas for Open Innovation in the last decade has been in the field of healthcare. Wholesale changes in the way Americans consume healthcare have greatly fragmented and complicated the external market and especially the back end of the business side. Today patients must navigate intricate networks of providers and multiple…
Open innovation is the go-to strategy of the decade! As leaders try to be more innovative in the workplace, they look to external partners, universities and their networks to meet their growing demands for innovation across all areas of their business. I believe that open innovation is the strategy that will determine whether or not…
Innovation is adapting to a new age. Companies are dealing with so many more challenges today than in the past. They are competing harder than ever to create and communicate new products and services. They are looking for ways to quickly discover and implement new ideas, and many are turning to the power of co-creation….
MasterCard has just launched a new innovation lab in New York City. The new 60,000 square foot facility will house those working on the MasterPass digital wallet, the Digital Enablement System, and MasterCard Labs’ Start Path, an accelerator for financial technology startups. The MasterCard Digital Enablement System’s tokenization service will secure ApplePay transactions: “This is…
I’m curating a fantastic collection of Open Innovation white papers from innovation experts, universities and corporate thought leaders on the latest theories, recent case studies, preliminary results and pioneering research. I first came across The Theory of Crowd Capital, which is the result of proceedings of the hawaii International Conference on System Sciences last…
Imagine a grocery store sending zero waste to the landfill. That’s what is happening in the UK with Sainsbury’s stories. “Last summer Sainsbury’s achieved its 20×20 sustainability target of putting all its store waste to positive use – and diverting it from landfill. All general waste from stores is recycled or turned into fuel. Surplus…
This tiny swarm is not thousands of bees, but thousands of robots called Kilobots. I saw this via Harvard University in a study that is quite amazing. The swarm can self-assemble into any two-dimensional shape, and can have all sorts of interesting applications. What we’re looking at is actually the first steps toward an entire…
Bioengineers have created a brain-like tissue that is three-dimensional, and is very close to the real thing! It functions in much the same way and can be kept alive in the lab for more than two months. This is going to be an incredible advancement in the study and healing of brain trauma cases and disorders…
