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Archive for May 2008

May 2nd, 2008

A Key to Collaborative Innovation: Defining the Problem Generically

Collaborative innovation across companies is happening! Manufacturing Business Technology wrote about a company, NineSigma, that facilitates this. What is very interesting about the innovation process is that NineSigma initially states the problem to be solved in GENERAL scientific terms. That way solutions outside the industry will be considered. In the Procter & Gamble consumer products [...]

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May 1st, 2008

“Open Innovation” Brings Companies Together to Solve Problems

Manufacturing Business Technology’s fascinating story about a start-up (NineSigma) that links manufacturers with product development problems to third parties with solutions reveals how collaborative innovation can work. A Procter & Gamble problem with oil stained detergent packaging is an excellent example:

“The detergent was packaged in pouches made of a water soluble film, and the pouches [...]

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