Henry Chesbrough, the father of open innovation, believes that in the future innovation communities will push the boundaries of open innovation. He cites GE as an early adopter of more open, customer-focused approaches that go beyond simply partnering with external suppliers to develop new products, but also to foster innovative new forms of community.
One unique strategy comes from GE’s energy business, which ran a crowdsourcing campaign that resulted in 70,000 ideas. The company made the unusual decision to appoint a community innovation manager, who has been working with community participants to keep them engaged and to find alternate uses for some of the promising ideas that didn’t make the short list of 23 ideas that were selected for funding and further development.
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