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21 Jul 09

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

According to Harvard Business School professor Karim R. Lakhani, Boeing's approach is an excellent example of how not to manage external innovation. The right way to do it is the subject of an article in the current issue of MIT Sloan Management Review by Lakhani and collaborator Kevin J. Boudreau (London Business School), "How to Manage Outside Innovation" (free registration required).

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The solution then is to connect with external innovators and invite them to participate with you on your critical problems. Of course, the Internet and the massive reduction in communication and computation costs have made accessing external innovators a much easier task than what was possible 10 or 15 years ago
More practically, working with outside innovators does not mean that all the "keys to the kingdom" have to be given away. Instead, firms can become intelligent about selectively revealing core issues in ways that their IP is protected. Firms like Procter & Gamble and IBM have learned to do this—others can learn as well.
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- An important element in P&G's effort was to create an infrastructure for external innovation that would enable the various business units to access the outside world. For established firms, CEO interest and commitment is necessary to make this happen.
- Boeing failed on two critical counts. One of the key tenets and advantages of external innovation is that you have access to multiple parallel approaches to solve the same problem.
- Second, my read of the situation from media reports is that Boeing kept a very long arm's-length relationship with suppliers. So problems that came up with various modules were not recognized until much later.

22 Sep 08

Changement: Boeing, entreprise de services

Un article explique que 4/5ème du 787 est fabriqué hors de chez Boeing. Que des accords avec des sous-traitants leur permettraient de participer directement à l’assemblage de l’avion.

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