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Social Media Hardly Utilized For Insights: Competitive Advantages Diminish

The figures are clear, Emailvision’s survey shows that just 6,2% of the marketers are using social media to gain insights into customer preferences. According to a study by the Chartered Institute of Marketing only 20% of marketers use Facebook for m… Continue reading

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DSM’s Innovative Power: Adapting To The Future Through Co-innovation

DSM has recently been in the news twice. One occassion due the launch of an open innovation contest that challenges designers and creative thinkers to develop high-quality sports equipment using the company’s own Arnitel® Eco material. The other occ… Continue reading

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Enterprise Social Media Usage Pays Off In Innovation And Knowledge Sharing

This concludes the survey by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), the global community of information professionals, authored by Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Digital Business and the … Continue reading

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Social Technologies Spur User Participation And Speed Up Product Innovation

Recently McKinsey published two articles on open innovation. One of them focuses on the business risks, the other on the usage of social technologies for open innovation. With regard to the latter, McKinsey found that “nearly two-thirds of the compan… Continue reading

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University of Cambridge Joins Eli Lilly’s “Open Innovation Drug Discovery Platform”

The University of Cambridge has partnered up with global pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company in an active collaboration programme helping to find and develop potential new medicines, particularly in the areas of greatest need. Gianluigi Cuccur… Continue reading

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Service Innovation Needed to Reduce the $17 Billion Product Returns

A new research by Accenture finds that customers returning electronic devices will cost U.S. electronics retailers and manufacturers about $17 billion this year, an increase of about 21% from 2007. These costs include receiving, assessing, repairing, r… Continue reading

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Open Data Strategy by the EC: “The best way to get value from data is to give it away”

The European Commission (EC) has launched a new open data strategy that will see a vast number of datasets owned by public authorities released to the public. The EC anticipates that the data will see businesses make money from new smart phone apps tha… Continue reading

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How Social Technologies Transform Organizations

The McKinsey Institute published the results of their fifth annual survey on how organizations use social technologies, it surveyed 4,200 executives to understand the developments and progress throughout the years and benefits of these social technolog… Continue reading

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Innovation in Intangible Assets Drives Company’s Market Value

The Dutch Financial Times published an article about how intangible assets are the most important value-determining factor of an organization, however investments, innovation and attention to these assets lack. This is contradicting but shows the chall… Continue reading

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New Opportunities For Co-Innovation: Mobile and Social Media Platforms

Napkin Labs and Passenger were in the news this week by announcing their platforms that enable co-innovation and research on a bigger and faster scale. Online co-creation technology firm Napkin Labs launched a free app to run on Facebook. Passenger on … Continue reading

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