innovation
Crowdsourcing Ideas
Crowdsourcing is a powerful tool to gain insights from a broad range of contributors. Many websites now have crowdsourced type feedback mechanisms that allow interested users to publicly contribute feature ideas and rate the ideas of others.
Many retail businesses are asking their customers what type of products they would like (eg. Starbucks and Dell). Others are offering up prizes for accomplishing some task that is helpful to the business. (eg. Netflix prize for improving their recommendation engine.
Q1: What does crowdsourcing mean to you?
Q2: What are the strengths and weaknesses/pitfalls of crowdsourcing?
Q3: What examples have you heard about or seen/delivered in your own business? Good Tools?
Q4: What will crowdsourcing become? More widespread? Different in some way?
Joint Chat - Spreading innovation knowledge throughout the org
Chat Thursday at 12pm ET This is the #innochat version of the chat. Use #innochat to listen and contribute. See the link below for more details. http://innochat.ning.com/forum/topics/joint-chats-w-kmers-april-6
Q1: How do you take the learnings from innovation and diffuse them through the organization?
How Does KM Support Innovation?
Chat is April 6 at 12pm ET
KMers is pretty new to the scene. There are other chats that have been around for a much larger portion of Twitter's own existence. Of those that started early, not all have endured (full list: http://bit.ly/ChatSched). Those that are still going strong are doing so thanks to a loyal and avid community.
One of those successful chats is #innochat. We are proud to be partnering with them for a #chatmixer on April 6 and April 8. April 6 will be the above topic on our (#KMers) hashtag and April 8 will be a similar topic on their (#innochat) hashtag. It is highly encouraged for the members of each community to attend the others' chat.
There's a strong general feeling in the two communities that innovation and KM have a lot in common in terms of vision, goals and methodologies, and it seems valuable to explore those similarities in a more explicit way. At the same time, it's clear they should generally support each other within an organization ... but are there specific practices or projects which can better leverage the synergies?
Q1: What KM principles are similar to innovation best practices? How are they different? Q2: What information needs to be managed in order to increase innovation? Are ideas the same as information, and do they need to be treated separately? Q3: Organizationally, how should KM and innovation work together? Where do they come together within the community or decision-making structure (formal or informal), and are there any barriers that need to be overcome?
Knowledge for Innovation
Modern organizations need a new, collaborative, value-driven approach to Innovation, which is challenging traditional views. It appears that the “Knowledge Management side of Innovation” is not fully exploited. Closer synergy between Knowledge and Innovation practices would certainly benefit the innovation process.
Questions for this chat session:
- What could Open Innovation learn from KM?
- Which KM practices are applicable in an Open Innovation environment?
- What constraints are imposed by Open Innovation?
