CoCreation at the heart of the internet
We all know this but this point is driven home very simply in this short but insightful snippet – profound insights!
My latest post on mycustomer.com
Customer co-creation in 2012: How are social technologies supporting Open Innovation?
Open Innovation efforts have been taken up a notch in 2012, with new social technologies making easier than ever to collaborate with customers and partners for greater business success
Times are changing, are you learning?
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Organising for the social marketplace of ideas aka Open Innovation
A current area of focus for The Work Foundation is how the UK develops a strategy for open innovation. They are building a new employer-led research programme to examine the effectiveness of innovation ecosystems within organisations. One key question which forms the basis of this new research is what strategies organisations need to adopt to successfully manage people in an open innovation era and from this, whether social technologies help, or hinder? There are other questions but I will be focusing especially on the latter part of this question (related to social technologies) and use this blog post, leading up to a related workshop that I’m attending, to gather my thoughts and some references and ideally get some feedback from you dear reader :) (more…)
Comparison of 100 Top Companies on Social Business and Innovation
This post is inspired by an excellent post with a very similar title and purpose but different angle. Jay Baer just a few days ago looked at a Comparison of 100 Top Companies on Social Business and Corporate Culture. He took data from Dachis’ Social Business Index for the most social businesses and correlated it with FORTUNE’s 2012 list of 100 Best Companies to Work For to see if being a good place to work for impacts Social Business or being employee-centric inherently impacts the social business aptitude of the company. I thought he did a fine job and wondered about the correlations with Innovation. (more…)
Ideas – thin end of the Social Business wedge
Based on recent work I have done for a client on evaluating and selecting an ideas management system (see blog posts: Idea Management – Evaluation I and Idea Management – Evaluation II), I am now more convinced of this point than ever. Note that in most cases, the systems and vendors I evaluated had an emphasis on social elements as a core part of their offering. So I thought I’d capture 10 reasons why I think ideas are a great starting point for social business / enterprise 2.0 initiatives. (more…)
Idea Management – Evaluation II
Now is the time, maybe mid-way into this process I started a while back and blogged about in the previous post, to provide an update. Please read the previous post first or this post wont make sense as I’m not going to reintroduce the topic. First off just to say how amazing it has been to work with an extremely flexible and accommodating client who have been very open to some of the unorthodox ways in which I have tried to approach this. And then there are the various vendors I have worked with who have also been very accommodating as well as amazing in their own right. I have had the benefit of dealing with some very exciting, knowledgable and enthusiastic vendor representatives who have some terrific products and who are doing some amazing things with organisations in this space. I’ll chunk this into the three areas that I have been covering off since my last post: (more…)
Idea Management – Evaluation I
This post is a way of explaining (and sharing) the process I am following on behalf of a client in evaluating and selecting an idea management platform. It is particularly for the benefit of the vendors that I have openly invited to take part in the process but also for any other organisations that might benefit! It’s also another avenue for getting feedback alongside LinkedIn and Twitter (feel free to provide your input, criticism, improvements, etc. in a comment :). For some background reading and to see where this process started, visit the LinkedIn discussion I started in the open/public Idea Management Group. (more…)