This book of Peter A. Gloor introduces to the concept of Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs), which are powerful engines of contemporary innovation. Using real-life examples the book shows how to use COINs to develop successful products in R & D, grow better customer relationships, establish better project management, and build higher-performing teams.
CIO Insight has posted a case study on innovation at Boeing examining how the massive global collaboration effort behind Boeing’s 787 reflects the changing nature of its business.
Speed is emerging as the ultimate competitive weapon, reports the latest cover story in the BusinessWeek magazine.
According to the article some of the world’s most successful companies are proving to be expert at spotting new opportunities, marshalling their forces, and bringing to market new products or services in a flash.
The article entitled “Knowledge Creation through Networked Strategic Communities: Case Studies on New Product Development in Japanese Companies” provides a new point of view regarding the knowledge management of new product development, a high-tech field requiring the merging and integration of different technologies.
Claudia Bernett, from Frog Design, writes about a new trend in the digital product’s development process where companies and consumers are coming together in a new kind of collaboration that is radically reshaping the business landscape.
Twelve leaders from four IT companies, seven American universities and the Kauffman Foundation have adopted a set of guiding principles to address how to approach open collaborative research between universities and the IT industry. The expectation is that the principles will promote and accelerate innovation, shortening the time it takes to move from concept to development.
The network is the pervasive organizational image of the new millennium. This book examines one particular kind of network – the ‘knowledge network’ – whose primary mandate is to create and disseminate knowledge based on multidisciplinary research that is informed by problem-solving as well as theoretical agendas.
In their examination of five knowledge networks based in Canadian universities,