In a series of postings, we present some of the program highligths of the MCPC 2011 conference. The following is just one of more than 50 sessions we will host on Nov 16-19 in San Francisco, CA.
Open Innovation has developed far beyond the state of a niche-method practiced only by a selective few entrepreneurs. With the evolution of the internet to "Web 2.0" the chances offered by employing this global meeting place to integrate consumers into the innovation process has been understood long since by large and small companies alike. Still the capabilities of Open Innovation are not been used to their fullest by many who could profit from its broader use. In sessions 6.4 and 7.4 we will take a look at what is possible and how it can be achieved.
Sessions 6.4 & 7.4 (Nov 19): Open Innovation Capabilities
Paradigm Shift of Innovation Processes
The phenomena MC, OI and OSI do not only stand for interactive business models but also represent the radical opening of the value creation chain on an unprecedented scale.
Doris Blutner (RWTH Aachen University) will explain how a generalized inclusion for people to participate in the designing process develops into a new paradigm of the genesis of innovations, which equals a discovery procedure, which – through its collective action – stirs up the economic competition, and whose products cannot be attributed to national origin any longer.
Management of Uncertainty: The Key for Open Innovation
Transformation in modern society is typified as a changeover from uncomplicated/simple/first modernity to reflexive/automatic/late modernity. Reflexive modernization is based on the idea of a risk society, forced individualization and multidimensional globalization which deeply manipulates the context for open innovation. Since managing uncertainty can be regarded as a core practice of successful innovation management, Robert Freund and Zoran Anisic will discuss open innovation from the second modernity point of view and shows new ways of dealing with uncertainty.
Emerging Capabilities of Open Innovation in Networks
In this presentation Astrid Lassen, Alexia Jacobsen, Sören Poulsen, Sören Wandahl and Henrik Sörensen (Aalborg University) will particularly focus on determining how to engage a willing but largely inexperienced network of companies in user-driven innovation. They will identify essential antecedent of user driven innovation and provide insights into how to stimulate and develop emerging capabilities of open innovation, especially in an industrial context.
Implementing Open Innovation: Groundwork on a Strategic Transformation Model for Multinational Companies
In this part Norman Mueller (Anglia Ruskin University) will aim to extend the understanding about the interface of organizational behavior/development and Open Innovation, specifically about how OI is implemented and adopted within multinational companies (MNCs). He will especially focus on human interactions in connection with change processes, taking an aggregated view on inter-dependencies between departments within MNCs.
On Becoming a User-Driven Firm: Slow-Cooked for Extra Goodness?
Mika Westerlund (Aalto University) and Seppo Leminen (Laurea University of Applied Sciences) will reveal what it takes for established firms to shift from traditional provider-driven innovators into modern-day user-driven co-creators. Based on firms’ experiences they identified four distinct phases of becoming a user-driven firm which they will describe and analyze. Their presentation will be completed by a discussion on organizational challenges that a firm faces on the sometimes long way towards an open organization.
Trust is Good, Control is Better: An Open Innovation-Controlling for SME
Due to a lack of respective research Small and Medium Enterprises currently have no instrument helping them to decide whether they should adopt Open Innovation.
Jessica Koch, Eckart Hauck and Ingrid Isenhardt (RWTH Aachen University) will present their research on the topic of the efficiency of OI for SMEs and talk about the development of an instrument that can help SMEs to decided whether employing OI is worthwhile or not.
Listen to the full content of these talks at the MCPC 2011, Marriot SFO Airport, San Francisco, Nov 16-19, 2011:
- Conference Website and Registration
- All info here in one compact MCPC flyer
- Conference hotel and travel (rooms fill quickly, book now!)
- All posts about the conference in my blog
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