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After attending the 2011 World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization and Co-Creation in San Francisco, Dr. Helén Anderson shares her insights: Customization is really about...
The MCPC conference series started out in 2001 as a bi-annual conference devoted to mass customization & personalization. The content has broadened in recent years, including also customer co-creation, user innovation, and other strategies of customer-driven value creation (hence, MCPC = Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation"). In 2011, the conference will bridge MCPC with a topic that has driven and inspired the field since several years: open innovation.
The start-up, Innovestment, is a crowdinvesting platform for startup-investments. It is not a micro-financing site, but more one that allows people with a real demand for investing money the...
Terms, such as co-creation, mass customization, interactive value creation, or open innovation represent the increasing success of new (predominantly Internet-based) practices and give evidence that the general public can constitute a source of enhanced innovation.
In many countries the public sector has been seeking to reform itself, anyway. Do the open innovation methods, broadly understood provide a way? In this post, Dennis Hilgers and Frank Piller look at the wider benefits of an open public service and raise some of the most important issues.
“These movements are interoperable, like gears, where networks and crowdsourcing produce real-time content, which drives the need for curation & display.” CEO Sam Decker isn’t the first to...
Mass Animation was founded in August 2008 by Yair Landau, former Sony Pictures Vice Chairman, to develop wikimovies and content using new production model - a virtual animation studio and an open...
In the past, companies have been private by default, but with the web (and especially social media) they are now switching the default position to public. This benefits the company through greater...
In the last few days, two of the leading global media outlets, The New York Times and The Economist, had quite extensive articles on user innovation, customization, and co-creation.
On February 10, 2011, on page C1 of the New York edition of The New York Times, Patricia Cohen writes about "Innovation Far Removed From the Lab",
The article is a great praise and acknowledgment of the work done by Eric von Hippel.
Overview of measurement approaches for co-creation and open innovation cases: Idea contest by SAP Lead User Method by 3M Broadcasting Platform by InnoCentive Mass Customization in various...
Conny Kalcher, Vice President, LEGO Group Conny Kalcher shares insights on how to build raving LEGO fans by engaging in co-creation, customer communities, mass-customizations and open...
The general term for this is “crowdsourcing.” Dawn MacKay, vice president of Halogen Software in Ottawa, Ontario, defined the approach as “taking full advantage of feedback and input, both...
Crowdfunding began as a way to raise money for artistic projects. Bands asked their fans to donate money so they could put out a new album. Filmmakers swapped DVDs of their projects or even...
Shannon Spanhake believe that Open Innovation can be a method of governance to solve civic challenges. That Open Innovation platforms can be built to customize government services to create better...
Crowdsourcing can connect businesses directly to audiences and to consumers. It can give opportunities to unknown or emerging innovators and help them find their place in the market. But,...
This article presents that executives in the design industry say crowdsourcing is one of the best ways to stay on top of consumer trends stating "it's more powerful when the consumer is...
The Open Planet Ideas project, sponsored by Sony and WFF (the World Wide Fund for Nature), is a true web2.0 green-hearted initiative, aimed at crowdsourcing responses from the online masses that will address key environmental issues. Cheaper than in-house R&D and more Mother Nature friendly, Sony scores great PR and the electronics giant’s own technology gets repurposed.
Well worth a read at the source site Ft.com. Crowdsourcing in fashion – allowing your audience to decide on your product via social media, forums, and high-tech web customizing programs – has...
The survey found out that people reprogrammed their washing machines to create a spin-only cycle, modified dog bowls so they wouldn't slide around the floor when the dog ate, built treetop...
Articles on crowdsourcing seem to spread one message: every firm should use the ‘power of the mass’ by tapping into a global pool of online voluntary resources. I do not deny that crowdsourcing is a beneficial concept to a number of firms, but there is also a different story to tell. I have observed that little or no attention has been paid to the drawbacks of crowdsourcing. These disadvantages result in unexpected costs that have the potential to wipe out some or all of the benefits of crowdsourcing.
In the first part of this article I describe which types of crowdsourcing currently exist and the benefits of crowdsourcing. In the second part (published tomorrow), I explore some of the drawbacks of crowdsourcing.
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