A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing

We had a packed meeting of the BQF Innovation  Unit today at which three authors who contributed to the new book, A Guide to Innovation and Crowdsourcing, spoke on the topic.  All delegates received a copy of the book.

I explained the concepts and showed the following sites as examples of OI or Crowdsourcing in [...]

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Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing Seminar

To mark the launch of the new book, A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing, the BQF Innovation Unit is holding a meeting on the morning of March 9th at which eminent contributors to the book will speak. The book is a compendium of tips, examples, best practice and case studies from the fast-growing world [...]

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Open Innovation Meeting

We had a lively meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit at which David Simoes-Brown of 100% Open was the main presenter.  You can see his slides here.  He gave detailed advice on how to start with Open Innovation and discussed case studies including Lego, Virgin, IBM and others.  He showed a fascinating current example at [...]

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Three Imminent Innovation Events

There are three upcoming innovation events that you can take advantage of.

1.  Gaining Competitive Advantage through Innovation Workshop.

To be held in London on Thursday Sept 16th.  This is a one day workshop in which you practise and learn creativity and innovation methods.  It will help you to develop new products and services.

2.  [...]

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Workshop on Open Innovation

The next meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit will take place on the morning of Tuesday 5th October in central London.  It will focus on Open Innovation and it will be interative and instructive.  It will be led by David Simoes-Brown of 100% Open, a consultancy that focuses on Open Innovation. 

Topics include

Open Innovation [...]

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Ideas Jam – How it works

We ran the Ideas Jam meeting yesterday and it went well. It was an intensive idea generation session. There were 18 participants from various companies who each brought a challenge from their business – e.g. How can we communicate our new strategy to thousands of people? The morning worked like this:

After an initial ice-breaker [...]

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Intensive Bottled Creativity

The next meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit will be an Ideas Jam on the morning of July 13th in central London.  It will be fun, challenging, interactive, intensive and creative.  You will learn new ideation methods, meet interesting people and work with them to develop radical ideas.  It is open to members and non-members.  [...]

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Come to an Ideas Jam on July 13 in London

Author: Franek, Wikimedia Commons

The next meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit will consist of an Ideas Jam to be held in central London on the morning of Tuesday July 13.

This is a highly interactive workshop style meeting in which people generate creative ideas for challenges which have been brought to the meeting.

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Innovation at Nokia

At today’s meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit we had an interesting talk from Pekka Pohjakallio, VP of Concepting and Innovation at Nokia.  Because of the ban on flights he was unable to attend in person so we had a voice over IP link to go with his powerpoint presentation.  He covered a tremendous amount [...]

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Next Meeting of the Innovation Unit – London Apr 19

We have a new agenda for the next Innovation Unit meeting on the morning of Monday 19 April and we will have a leading speaker from Nokia.

 

Since the early 1990′s Nokia has invested close to €35 billion in research and development to build one of the strongest and broadest intellectual property rights (IPR) portfolios [...]

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