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Open Innovation: The Power of Many

Posted July 11, 2011 | Leadership | Cutter Benchmark Review

This article revisits the state of open innovation implementation since my last CBR contribution back in 2007.1 I must confess, since my consulting business promotes the concepts of open innovation, I am particularly curious to know to what extent organizations worldwide are adopting such practices. In the first part of this article, I will investigate how much further organization have implemented the open innovation approach since 2007, by comparing and analyzing the results of this year's Cutter Consortium survey with those from four years ago. Next, I will dive into the differences between the survey findings and my professional experience in order to envision the trajectory path of open innovation.

About The Author
Ana Paula Valente Pereira
Ana Paula Valente Pereira is a founding partner of WhatEver Consulting Group, a firm that helps customers to adopt an integrated set of standard IT processes, promoting open innovation and enterprise agility. She is also involved as a committer in the Eclipse Process Framework project. Ms. Pereira founded WhatEverSoft, a spinoff, in 1998, making it the first Sun Authorized Java Center established in Portugal. As CTO, she led the software… Read More
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