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From Commodities to Services
An article on the Forbes website analyzes Allevo, a Romanian company which has decided to “open source” its core business. It is shifting its business model and competition from a pure commodity space to a more diversified services space. And they also walk the innovation talk, because innovation is needed in their market segments.
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The App Economy and Open Services Innovation
An article on the National Review website argues that the most successful firms manage to create open platforms that other firms can build on — instead of relying solely on in-house talent, you can draw on the entrepreneurial energy of thousands and potentially millions of people you’d never dream
Open Services Innovation
In his blog, Irving Wladawsky-Berger discusses some of the issues raised in Henry Chesbrough’s book, Open Services Innovation. He notes that Chesbrough’s key argument for the importance of services innovation is the serious competitive challenge
Open Services Innovation: Road Runner Sports
The Plantescompany blog reports that Road Runner Sports offers a new twist on guru advice – a computerized assessment based on a video of the shopper running on a treadmill, a pad measuring where the runner places the weight of his feet and runner-provided information. Road Runner Sports turns
Open Services Innovation: A Review
On the Blogging About Business website, Bob Morris reviews Henry Chesbrough’s most recent book. In his previous articles and books Henry Chesbrough has a great deal of value to say about results-driven, multi-dimensional collaboration/co-creation within and beyond any organization. His latest
Why Open Services Are the Future of Innovation
In his review in Fast Company, Adrian Ott says that Henry Chesbrough’s book “Open Services Innovation,” provides an integrated approach and framework that explains much of what’s happening today. He adds that the book demonstrates through real-world case studies that services
Open Services Innovation—an extension of the open paradigm
In this review of the book “Open Services Innovation” on the blog “SustainableInnovation,” Antti Hautamaki argues that the best part of the book is the discussion of extending services innovation outside one’s organization and shows the role of Specialization, Economies
Video: Henry Chesbrough Discusses Open Government in the E.U.
In the video included below, Professor Henry Chesbrough provides open innovation policy recommendations for the European Union.
Science|Business Video Interview with Henry Chesbrough
In the video included below, Science|Business’s Richard Hudson speaks with Professor Henry Chesbrough and BP’s Group Head for Research and Technology, David Eyton about open innovation.
Henry Chesbrough’s Presentation at TEDxESADE
Below, please find a video of Professor Henry Chesbrough’s talk at TEDxESADE, which was held on June 8, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain. Image
