Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:00-1:00pm ET Business Model Innovation: A Goodyear Case Study Business model innovation is important for bringing new innovation to market, but also for capturing value from innovative technology. Alliances and partnerships are an important part of the process. Jim will discuss the approach to business model innovation – from customer insight…
Imagine using smart phone apps or a laptop to meet with a doctor without missing work or school? I know it’s a time-consuming endeavor to head to a medical office for an appointment. I’m working with a client who has an innovative medical practice called Mobile Health Team, and I find this exciting concept changing the…
It’s here! CoDev 2015 Join 200 of your peers at the industry’s first and most respected forum on Open Innovation. Now in its fourteenth year, this is the one event you can count on to deliver cutting-edge content, valuable contacts, and an outstanding experience. Find out how the OI pioneers are moving ahead. The OI pioneers are going…
Here is an interview I did with business editor Larry Avila: Making everyday items better Regional manufacturing innovations hit mainstream Story by Larry Avila, New North B2B Editor They’re all around us and we likely don’t even give it a second thought. From vehicles to move people and goods to the gizmos that keep us…
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…
In my book, Conquering Innovation Fatigue: Overcoming the Barriers to Personal and Corporate Success, we discuss some of the ways our corporate efforts have gone stale. One of those ways is embedded in our corporate cultures that tell our people, “Not Invented Here.” Those three little words ought not be! There is a whole lot…
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…
A new tool is helping to enable better collaborations between data science personnel and corporate workers. Adatao is offering a more comprehensive solution that lets business leaders and data scientists work together more easily by enabling businesses to use one single tool across the organization with real-time collaboration across departments: The service is split into…
A company in the UK is using nanotechnology to capture light, and achieve new levels of range and sensitivity in a breakthrough “super black” material. Check this out: Vantablack – created by Surrey NanoSystems – is revolutionary in its ability to be applied to lightweight, temperature-sensitive structures such as aluminium whilst absorbing 99.96% of incident…
Join us for the live online webinar for free! Thursday, September 4, 2014, 8am China Standard Time (Wednesday, September 3, 2014, 8pm EDT) Check your local time for the webinar here. Enhance your business in China and learn about resources and opportunities available for your company The conference will focus on promotion of trade support…
