During our Collaborative Innovation: The State of Engagement webinar, we were asked, “What sources on collaborative innovation do you recommend?” We answered the question during the talk but promised to collect and broaden our responses, so here they are. Drew Marshall recommends: Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks – Peter Gloor Made to Stick
Earlier today, Dan Keldsen and I presented findings from the Collaborative Innovation survey in a webinar, Collaborative Innovation: The State of Engagement. We’ll be posting the slides from the webinar shortly, but for now I thought I’d share some of the quotes we received from survey respondents on the topic of “Has your collaborative innovation
As you may have seen (and hopefully even participated!), we recently conducted a survey on Collaborative Innovation to learn how individuals and organizations are engaging in collaborative innovation and what benefits they are receiving. Here is a summary of the benefits which individuals have personally received from their Collaboration efforts, as well as benefits they
If you’ve heard about “experience curves,” you know that they deliver diminishing returns over time. Is there another way to keep on advancing? There is: collaboration curves. As discussed by John Hagel, co-chairman of Deloitte’s Center for the Edge in Silicon Valley, in his book, Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set
3D printing technologies let designers manufacture almost any shape they’ve imagined and computed in 3D software. Traditionally, designers were constrained by materials’ properties because forms and shapes had to be manufactured in a reductive way (removing material to make the shape). 3D printers, in contrast, mimic nature by letting objects “grow.” That is, 3D printers
Companies don’t want to pursue collaboration for its own sake — they want results. For a collaborative effort to deliver on those results, the benefits must outweigh the costs. To reduce the costs of collaboration, focus on two areas: Reduce the opportunity costs of collaboration. That is, make it easier for people to find each
The most recent Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership survey shows that collaboration is needed for companies to innovate and solve complex problems, reports Rick Lash, National Practice leader, Leadership and Talent for the Hay Group. The trouble is, many leaders lack key collaborative skills. Part of the problem lies in thinking that collaboration is
Drew Marshall’s post, Collaborative Places – Making Space to Innovate, sparked my thinking about the design of physical spaces to encourage collaboration. Background: Stanford’s d.School One place to look for advice on designing for creativity and collaboration is Stanford’s design school, the birthplace of design thinking as we know it today. (The term dates back
When consulting firm Booz & Company asked R&D leaders in 186 countries in 19 nations to name their top three challenges, the #2 challenge cited was how to encourage collaboration across geographic locations and functions. How do firms tackle the challenge? The most effective solution is to use collaboration platforms, like Dassault Systemes’ ENOVIA, that let
Last week, GE released its second annual “Global Innovation Barometer,” a survey of nearly 2800 senior business executives in 22 countries who are directly involved in their companies’ innovation strategy and decision making. Not surprisingly, executives said that innovation is vital to growth. The survey (conducted by research firm StrategyOne) went further, however, to examine