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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.

17 Jul 09

Taming the Supply Chain beast, Enterprise 2.0 style.

RollStream fixes specific problems – inefficiencies in the supply chain via Private Supplier Social Networks. Counting well known companies such as Walgreens, Owens & Minor, Johnson & Johnson and Tesco as customers, their SaaS solution services the partner relationship lifecycle for retailers, manufacturers and distributors. Business activity-focused capabilities cover partner on-boarding, compliance, performance management and dispute resolution.

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one of the biggest opportunities to enterprises using such social computing technology is be able to to pry open the gates that lock out supply chain access to core processes such as product management, R&D, marketing, end customer support, etc.
First, no one knows the true power, limitations and opportunities for each component of a product better than the very folks who build them
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- Social Software can open up the lines of interaction beyond R&D, Procurement and Product Development, allowing suppliers to learn, first hand, any pain felt by the end customer.
- All that said, the use of collaborative software in this context can bring massive, measurable business benefit if its treated as a strategic initiative by enterprises

21 Jan 09

Strategic heading by G. Oliver Young

if we replaced every employee tomorrow with a Gen Yer the average enterprise still would not be able to use Enterprise 2.0 to its full effect.”

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How many managers are truly equipped to manage to social, collaborative workers? We’re not particularly good at managing to team goals today. How would the average enterprise incent and compensate workers in a truly social enterprise?
Without social processes even the most game employees will struggle taking full advantage of Enterprise 2.0, and retrofitting will take some time.
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- many firms are either not prepared to make use of those insights or do not have a ready supply of external folks ready or willing to help.

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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