A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing: Advice from Leading Experts in the Field

by Paul Sloane

Overview

Open innovation and crowd sourcing are the hottest topics in strategy and management today. The concept of capturing ideas in a hub of collaboration, together with the outsourcing of tasks to a large group of people or community is a revolution that is rapidly changing our culture. A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing explains how to use the power of the internet to build and innovate in order to introduce a consumer democracy that has never existed before. If a business fails to embrace it, it is at risk of being left behind.

Written by an international team of eminent thinkers, writers and practitioners in the field, A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing covers the definition of open innovation, how to manage virtual teams and co-create with customers, how to overcome legal and IP issues and common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid.

With corporate case studies and best practice advice, A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing is a vital read for anyone who wants to find innovative products and services from outside their organizations, make them work and overcome the practical difficulties that lie in the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749463076
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	02/22/2011
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

The Editor, Paul Sloane is an experienced speaker, course leader and facilitator. He is a recognised authority on innovation and creative speaking and he speaks and gives workshops on these subjects to leading corporations around the world. He is the bestselling author of How to Be a Brilliant Thinker, The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills and The Innovative Leader, also published by Kogan Page

Table of Contents

** Chapter - 00: Introduction – The Trend to Open Innovation – Paul Sloane; ** Chapter - 01: What is Open Innovation? – Julian Keith Loren; ** Chapter - 02: What is Crowdsourcing? – Renee Hopkins; ** Chapter - 03: Open Innovation Typology – Jeffrey Phillips; ** Chapter - 04: The Importance of a Strategic Approach to Open Innovation – Braden Kelley; ** Chapter - 05: Start at the End – David Simoes-Brown and Roland Harwood; ** Chapter - 06: Institutionalizing Open Innovation – Steven Goers PhD; ** Chapter - 07: The Strategic Context for Open Innovation – Andrew Gaule; ** Chapter - 08: Leadership Issues and Challenges in the OI World – Matthew Heim; ** Chapter - 09: Motivating the Crowd to Participate in Your Innovation Initiative – Hutch Carpenter; ** Chapter - 10: How LG Electronics Is Transforming Itself into an Innovation Company – Christopher J Ryu; ** Chapter - 11: Bridging Open Innovation Gaps – Andrea Meyer and Dana Meyer; ** Chapter - 12: Soft Skills for Open Innovation Success – Gail Martino and John Bartolone; ** Chapter - 13: Open Innovation with Customers: Co-creation at Threadless – Frank Piller; ** Chapter - 14: Introducing Open Innovation at Intuit – Jan Bosch and Petra M Bosch-Sijtsema; ** Chapter - 15: Problem description in Open Problem Solving: How to overcome cognitive and psychological roadblocks – Klaus-Peter Speidel; ** Chapter - 16: Building the Culture for Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing – Cathryn Hrudicka, Gwen Ishmael and Boris Pluskowski; ** Chapter - 17: Overcoming Resistance to OI – Todd Boone; ** Chapter - 18: Managing Legal and IP Issues – Denys Resnick; ** Chapter - 19: Fast, Open and Global – The future of innovation – Stefan Lindegaard; ** Chapter - 20: The Power of Open Collaboration in Connecting People – Pekka Pohjakallio and Pia Erkinheimo; ** Chapter - 21: Common Mistakes and Stress Points – Andrew Gaule; ** Chapter - 22: Attracting Open Innovation Partners – Portals, publicity and people – Kevin McFathing; ** Chapter - 23: Multistep Dynamic Expert Sourcing: A novel approach for open innovation platforms – Albert Meige and Boris Golden; ** Chapter - 24: The Acceleration of Innovation – Clinton Bonner; ** Chapter - 25: Envisioning the Future of Innovation – Stephen Shapiro

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

The guide offers you to explore the field and gives examples, what challenges companies met and how they were overcome. And those who are familiar with change management of personal effectiveness approaches, may find similar approaches in some of the chapters. With the valuable extension of how these concepts can be applied more effective in a networked environment or crowd sourcing approach." 
- Fred Zimny, serve4impact.com 

"...a valuable resource for those interested in learning about 21st-century entrepreneurship methods that integrate technology into these business practices. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, faculty, and professionals/practitioners." - CHOICE 

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Editorial Reviews

"Paul Sloane has done an excellent editing job. The twenty five chapters are each authored by different figures from the OI world. These include consultants, senior figures from industry and academics. A good number of them are prolific contributors to the innovation blogosphere. Their knowledge and experience covers OI in a broad range of industries and sectors."

Anatello e-newsletter

"If your company is thinking about venturing into the brave new world of open innovation, this book ought to be on your must-read list. You'll gain some important insights into where to start, things you need to consider and what to watch out for."

www.innovationtools.com

"If your company is thinking about venturing into the brave new world of open innovation, this book ought to be on your must-read list. You'll gain some important insights into where to start, things you need to consider and what to watch out for."

Innovation Weblog

"[D]raws together some of the best advice on this growing area into a single volume… If your company is thinking about venturing into the brave new world of open innovation, this book ought to be on your must-read list. You'll gain some important insights into where to start, things you need to consider and what to watch out for." —Chuck Frey, www.innovationtools.com 

“This book is an essential guide to both Open Innovation and crowdsourcing, because it is a compilation of the best thinking by experts on both subjects… A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing has a good mix of theoretical and practical material, so there is likely to be something of value for everyone, regardless of one’s specific interest or responsibility.” 
—ForeWord Book Reviews 

"The guide offers you to explore the field and gives examples, what challenges companies met and how they were overcome. And those who are familiar with change management of personal effectiveness approaches, may find similar approaches in some of the chapters. With the valuable extension of how these concepts can be applied more effective in a networked environment or crowd sourcing approach." 
—Fred Zimny, serve4impact.com 

"[A] valuable resource for those interested in learning about 21st-century entrepreneurship methods that integrate technology into these business practices. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, faculty, and professionals/practitioners." —CHOICE 

From the Publisher