In a February 2014 presentation, Herman Wories of the DSM Innovation Center made a compelling statement about the role of innovation in any organization: “Innovation is no longer a competitive advantage: it’s a competitive necessity. In order to keep up, you need to continuously innovate.”
The pace of business moves at a rapid velocity in a continuous, 24-hour cycle – a global network of workers and micro-taskers are changing the face of products, markets, and organizations every day, but in the world of open innovation we know that problem solving within an organization is not limited to a single set of people. Perhaps this sentiment is best encapsulated by Yochai Benkler in The Wealth of Networks, “…the world is becoming too fast, too complex and too networked for any organization to have all the answers inside.”
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