The MRT Virtual Roundtable

1. Hear Unilever, Nestle and Duane Morris talk candidly about their Open Innovation experiences

   MRT and PDMA are offering a “Sneak Preview” of the upcoming CoDev conference in a FREE webinar on January 17.  Moderated by conference chair, Cheryl Perkins, the panelists include the following CoDev faculty  members: George Wells, Director of Technology Transfer, Nestle Purina Petcare Roger Leech, Open Innovation Portfolio & Scouting Director, Unilever John Neclerio, Partner, [...]

2. Tech Scouting: Key Drivers of Success

   Article #12:  Key Drivers of Success While many factors contribute to the success of open innovation and technology scouting, these are the top twelve emphasized by experts and experienced scouts: Choose entrepreneurial individuals to be on the scouting team. The ability to understand both technology and marketing helps. Make sure your innovation strategy is clear [...]

3. Tech Scouting: Rewards and Incentives

   Article #11:  Rewards and Incentives One of the biggest challenges of open innovation is motivating your technologists to go outside for innovation. Traditionally organizations have rewarded R&D for patents and other internally-focused accomplishments. For a technology scouting program to succeed, these reward systems must change. This is especially important as teams are often comprised of [...]

4. Open Innovation vs Team Player?

   I set up a Google Alert for Open Innovation to try and keep track of OI news and happenings.  Mostly I get articles and blog posts, but sometimes some odd stuff comes through the filter. In today’s alert I got a link to a Yahoo Answers page where someone has to give a presentation at [...]

5. Tech Scouting: Useful Metrics and Industry Examples

   Article #10:  Useful Metrics and Industry Examples Now that you have found and chosen the opportunities that best support your company’s innovation objectives, how do you monitor and measure success? As in any metrics program, your desired outcomes should guide what is measured along the way. While team and partner processes are important to measure, [...]

CoDev and Open Innovation

1. Status posted by Gene Slowinski
   
   is presenting his advanced course on Open Innovation in Boston Aug 23-24. http://www.roundtable.com/conferences-workshops/oi0811
2. Steve Baines commented on Alex's video
   

   Interview with Cheryl Perkins, chairperson of CoDev 2011

   
3. Discussion posted by Hannah Toes
   

   Innovation Communication Styles

   I am interested in hearing of any excellent papers, keynotes, or experts in the innovation communication styles space.
4. Event posted by Alex
   

   Kraft's Systematic Approach to Open Innovation at Online

   March 3, 2011 from 1pm to 2pm

   Recognizing the need for a more systematic approach to Open Innovation, Kraft Foods adopted a new approach for mining and mapping technology landscapes to identify high value opportunities. In this free webinar featuring Linda Perucca, Section Manager, RD&Q Intellectual Property Strategy, of Kraft Foods and Barry Brager, Managing Partner of Perception Partners. Linda and Barry will discuss Kraft Foods' approach to open innovation and highlight key successes and lessons learned. For more information and to register See More
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BlogsPlus

Social networks, communities of practice, blogging, wikis and even old-fashioned online bulletin board systems are all supposed to facilitate communication and more rapid knowledge transfer. While these technologies hold a significant amount of promise, the key is to gather enough critical mass of participations to make these tools worth using.

Since its founding in 1980, Management Roundtable has been connecting real world practitioners with subject matter experts.  We are currently experimenting with various technologies to enable more practitioner to practitioner interaction and knowledge sharing. The eventual goal is to embed that vibrant community right here in this space, but for now we would like to encourage you to participate in the following experiments.

MRT Plus

MRTPlus.com is based on a “private label” social network platform. This site features blogs, conference updates, discussion forums, videos and more focused on topics such as lean product development, roadmapping, metrics and more.

The Open Innovation Community

The Open Innovation community is another "private label" social network that is solely on Open Innovation. This site will feature community generated content that will help grow the Open Innovation body of knowledge. Please be sure to visit this site -- and be sure to contribute.

We welcome your input in this process. We want to make something that people will find valuable and time efficient. Please feel free to contact us with your suggestions and comments.

Thanks,

Alex Cooper
President