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3 Open Innovation Failures: Boeing, LEGO and Pharma. We are seeing lots of open innovation progress and companies are keen to share success-stories.

We do not hear much about the failures, but here you get three examples. Boeing 787 Dreamliner: I think it is now fair to say that Boeing has a solid failure at hands when it comes to the building (and innovation) process of the otherwise great aircraft (well, once they fix the safety issues that is). Just consider this quote from Boeing: “More than 50 of the world’s most capable top-tier supplier partners are working with Boeing to bring innovation and expertise to the 787 program. The suppliers have been involved since the early detailed design phase of the program and all are connected virtually at 135 sites around the world.” Frugal Innovation: A New Business Paradigm. Embracing Enterprise Innovation - Empowering the Masses through Innovation Communities.

The ripening of Adafruit and the maker movement - Ideas@Innovations. Created in China. Authors: Silvia Lindtner, David Li Hackerspaces are shared studios that bring together people committed to the free and open sharing of software and hardware, as well as ideas and knowledge.

As of April 2012, there are more than 500 active hackerspaces in existence worldwide, making them a global phenomenon [1]. A typical studio will be equipped with tools that allow for experimenting with the physical/digital boundary—laser cutters, 3-D printers, microcontroller kits, and so forth. Many hackerspaces also host educational workshops where these tools are used to teach others about manipulating the physical environment through software, or vice versa. How Innovation Processes Began at Shell and IBM. In today’s article I will review the beginnings in innovation programs implemented by companies Shell and IBM, using the A-to-F Model described in the book Winning at Innovation .

In the mid 1990s Shell created the “GameChanger” panel, a group of creatively minded mid-level executives who could also draw on other technical resources across the company. They were given the task of developing new ideas, using a $20 million budget to implement disruptive ideas. Evolutionary, Revolutionary or Blended Innovation: Which is Right for Your Organization? Can Lean Co-exist with Innovation? Visualising Innovation Eco-Systems. Fragile eco-systems (photo Simon Evans) How do we look at the big picture of Innovation?

There are many different models of innovation out there, and they all have their respective merits and challenge our thinking in different ways. In this (hopefully) post recession world however it is time that we take another look at how we are all looking at and thinking about our innovation capability. There is a common perception that innovation is getting harder (see any of the recent Boston Consulting papers for example), and that our “freedoms to innovate” feel like they have been curtailed. Schumpeter: Pretty profitable parrots.

Absolut Creates 4 Million Unique Vodka Bottles [Video] Absolut Vodka recently launched ‘Absolut Unique,’ a project in which the vodka makers will release 4 million limited-edition, unique bottles.

The project required a company’s production plant to be completely re-engineered; the ‘carefully orchestrated randomness’ to the bottle design involves using complex pattern programming alongside splash guns and color-generating machines to ensure that no two bottles come out the same. image from Apt Blog The vodka bottles will be individually numbered and will be distributed globally in 80 markets, including the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, and China. Is Your Innovation Really Unnovation? - Umair Haque. By Umair Haque | 11:26 AM May 27, 2009.

Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan - Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu, Simone Ahuja. Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term “frugal engineering” in 2006.

He was impressed by Indian engineers’ ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. And under Ghosn’s leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world’s leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. Open Innovation Spotlight. Technology - Kanyi Maqubela - The Power and the Peril of Our Crowdfunded Future. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley on the rise of "Kickstarters for XYZ" Andrey Pavlov/Shutterstock Since Kickstarter launched in April of 2009, we, the crowd, have funded a quarter of a billion dollars worth of art projects, small businesses, tech gear, etc.

Some of these, like the Brydge, a beautiful iPad accessory, and gTar, a guitar-iPhone hybrid that recalls Guitar Hero, have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. Others, like the Pebble, an iPhone-integrated wristwatch, have raised millions. The average project walks away with approximately $5000, and just under half of the projects on Kickstarter meet their fundraising goals and get the money. The Jumpstart Our Businesses (JOBS) Act, which President Obama signed into law in April, will ease regulations on securities in the United States, enabling small businesses to raise funding from non-traditional sources.

How Slow Money Can Support Healthy Communities. What does it look like to start a values-based business with members of your community?

Gather is a sustainable restaurant that serves as a successful model. Located in downtown Berkeley, California and catering to conscious foodies, the farm-to-table eatery keeps thriving with an omnivore-friendly menu and steady reservations. Esquire magazine named it one of the top restaurants of 2010 with Sean Baker its Chef of the Year and The New York Times described it as a “Michael Pollan book come to life.” When owners and mountaineering guide-friends Eric Fenster and Ari Derfel developed their business plan 10 years ago, they had no formal culinary or business training. It was smart planning, relationship building, and a new way to raise funds that made their vision possible.

Derfel considers himself an “unusual entrepreneur with unusual motivation.” Over 65 investors and their partners were drawn to the idea of funding the community food system close to home. FarmHack: Collaboratively Retooling Agriculture. FarmHack is a network for sharing open source know-how amongst the distributed fringe of DIY agricultural tech aficionados and innovators.

In the same vein as Appropedia or Open Source Ecology, a collaborative digital knowledge-base facilitates the harvest of crowd wisdom to address challenges and inefficiencies in modern ecological (and economical) farm operation. Innovation, the “rugby approach”: thoughts for thoughts from 24 years ago. I’ve referred in “Metaphor and belief, 2 frameworks to found creativity” to the excellent work on innovation performed by Ikujiro Nonaka. I’ve found another sharp article from the same author published 24 years ago at Harvard Business Review, January-February 1986: nevertheless “The new product development game“ seems to me incredibly topical! Ikujiro speaks about how companies must adapt to fierce competition and develop speed and flexibility. He thinks there is new game in product development, which means moving from traditional sequential phases to a “rugby approach” involving a team in constant interaction, multidisciplinary, whose members work together from start to finish.

The team practices iterative experimentation, and overlap across several phases. This approach is essential to company seeking to develop new products quickly and flexibly. Moreover, this strategy can act as an agent of change for the larger organization. Innovative Design: creating unknown objects. I had the chance to attend a few weeks ago a lecture on C-K design theory. It was delivered by brilliant professors Pascal Le Masson and Benoît Weill, two among the three referents in C-K methodology, the third being the lead professor Armand Hatchuel, Professor of Management Sciences and Design Engineering, Ecole des Mines, Paris. Let me try to guide you to this formal innovative design approach. Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation.