1. YOUR COLLEAGUES WANT YOU!
To help them to solve problems in the Innovation Portal!
The iPortal goal: Collaboration! To connect people in our organization with challenges with other people in our organization who have solutions
How can you help?
Post your challenges to the iPortal
Submit responses to your colleagues’ challenges
Discuss previous responses, suggest related literature
Alternative ways to contribute:
Internal: Communities of Practice:
Goal: More collaboration! CoPs are longer-term than the iPortal and center around a topic of interest rather than specific challenges
Join a CoP that matches your interests
Discuss topics related to that interest
Suggest solutions to issues that arise during discussions
External: Open Innovation through Intermediary communities
Goal: Collaboration with external communities! To connect us with external organizations with problems that we can solve or solutions to problems that we have
Browse the challenges on these sites => propose that we develop teams to provide solutions for those related to our expertise
Suggest issues from your projects that might benefit from external help that these sites can provide
Considerations:
What happens to the intellectual property rights for the solutions? Are the rights transferred completely or are there licensing options?
How is the “solver” rewarded? A contract? A financial reward? Opportunities to interview?
Intermediaries:
InnoCentive
Hypios
NineSigma
Tekscout
Innoget
Innovation Exchange
Yet2.com
One Billion Minds (students only)