Siemens report on Open Innovation

Siemens have published a detailed report on Open Innovation.  It contains many interesting points including a report from Grant Thornton on the sources of ideas.  Their survey revealed that the best sources of ideas were as follows as rated by percentage of respondents:

Customers                              41%

Heads of Business Units           35%

Employees                              33%

Internal R&D                         33%

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Innovation Funnel Survey

 How’s the health of your innovation funnel? If new ideas are a primary driver of future growth, in today’s uncertain economic climate, it could become a survival issue for your organization.  Chuck Frey from InnovationTools.com and Hitendra Patel from the Center for Innovation Excellence & Leadership at the Hult International School of Business are conducting [...]

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Innovation Metrics – which are the best ones?

Last week I ran a session for GBPA corporate members where we discussed innovation metrics.  We reviewed the Boston Consulting Group 2007 research on the subject and the results of my innovation metrics web survey.  It was agreed that most organisations find it difficult to measure innovation in any satisfactory way.  The most common measurements [...]

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