Good sites but even better June 25, 2008
Posted by Ross Ferguson in business, community, innovation.Tags: data, maps, route finder, social utility, walking
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One of my favourite sites is WalkIt, and now it’s just got even better with www.walkit.com/glasgow. Well done to Jamie Wallace and his colleagues.
I like WalkIt as a user but also as a professional. (more…)
Avoiding innovation at the extremes April 17, 2008
Posted by Ross Ferguson in analysis, business, innovation.3 comments
Quite a neat article on ‘Open Innovation’ in the Summer 2008 edition of the Design Council magazine. The author, Jeff Weedman of Procter and Gamble, takes a canter through what open innovation has done for businesses.
He cites Julian Birkinshaw of the London Business School who says there is a spectrum of innovation, with open innovation at one end and closed innovation at the other. Every business, says Birkinshaw, must place itself somewhere on that spectrum but not, he warns, at either extreme.
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