San José Tackles Open Innovation for Smart Cities
How Silicon Valley's Capital is Co-Creating The Smart City of Tomorrow
Partnership
Partnering with AI: Optum Labs’ Efforts to Improve U.S. Health Care
Through industry partnerships, a 200 million life database, and the use of artificial intelligence (AI), Optum Labs is confronting the daunting cost and quality challenges facing the U.S. health care system
Open Innovation at Nestle – Establishing an extended innovation ecosystem
In a world of distributed knowledge and expertise, it’s clear that open innovation has clear advantage across the value chain. This essay discussed the challenges of traditional in-house innovation model and why it is important for Nestle to use open innovation model. Then it introduced several milestone initiatives Nestle has taken to apply Open Innovation and gave two recommendations for the management team to further consider.
John Lewis: Would you leave your company to the workers?
John Lewis the UK's favourite retailer with sustained profitable growth and untouchable customer loyalty and advocacy. What is the secret to their success? They are a workers' co-operative, owned and operated for the benefit of their employees.
Pagani Automobili S.p.A.: Merging Art and Science
How can an independent, low-volume, uber-premium Auto Company manage to stay profitable for over 20 years?
John Lewis: A better way of doing business?
The UK’s leading retailer is owned not by outside shareholders but by its employees. The result? A company that maximises ‘happiness’ for its employees, is experiencing record levels of sales and has been voted the ‘UK’s favourite retailer’ for the fourth consecutive year.