Posted: May 18th, 2011 | Author: Marieke | Filed under: co-creation, experts, Geneva, inspiring | Tags: Broadband Commission, co-creation, Geneva, ITU, students | No Comments »
“I wonder what a group of 20 year olds would say if they were in our position?” This question, coming from Mo Ibrahim, a member of the Broadband Commission, led to a very interesting and inspiring workshop we were asked to facilitate yesterday at the ITU in Geneva during the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society).
A group of (mainly) first year students of the EPFL (Technical Universtiy in Lausanne), were aksed to shine their light on the objectives and goals of the Broadband Commission. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: November 17th, 2010 | Author: martijn | Filed under: Chesbrough, co-creation, open innovation, services | Tags: chesbrough, co-creation, open innovation, services | No Comments »
From the author of Open Innovation we will get a new book – bigger and better than the previous one. It is due Jan 2011. I can’t wait. Here is a sneak preview from opensource.com. Pre-order the book here.
To escape the commodity trap, Chesbrough says that you must:
- Wrap services around your products
- Turn products into solutions
- Co-create innovations with your customers
- Use openness to get more from specialization
- Build platforms to attract others to add to your solutions.
Posted: September 24th, 2010 | Author: Ingeborg | Filed under: Amsterdam, co-creation, Creative space, inspiration, inspiring, NDSM-wharf | Tags: Amsterdam, co-creation, Creative space, inspiratie, inspiration, NDSM-wharf | No Comments »
Soon Fronteer Strategy will cross the water and move to the NDSM-wharf. We are getting a brand new office with a great space for our co-creation sessions, a historic hangar… The original frame of the building is still in tact as well as a lot of authentic details in the interior. The whole office will be of high quality and a great place to get inspired!
Formerly the NDSM-wharf was a shipyard and is located on ‘t IJ in Amsterdam-Noord. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: September 13th, 2010 | Author: Steven | Filed under: co-creation, communities, Internet, recruiment | Tags: Buurtboer, co-creation, crowdsourcing, Nadine Levin, Nikki Wiesman, recruitment, recruitment2.0 | No Comments »
Successful Expert Co-Creation requires a broad and unique network to select only the very best in a certain field. In order to acquire, maintain and broaden this unique network you need people with the right skills. Eight months ago we hired our first Connector / Recruiter who would be responsible for this important task. Our first Connector / Recruiter Nikki Wiesman took up this challenging job and proved that her role is a vital one within Fronteer Strategy. Unfortunately she left Fs to pursue her dreams of becoming a mother and establishing her own company called ‘De Buurtboer‘. Of course we wish her a lot of success in her new role(s) but we had to fill the important gap she left behind. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: July 29th, 2010 | Author: Steven | Filed under: co-creation, inspiration, inspiring | Tags: co-creation, Commercial, movie, Shangri-La | No Comments »
Successful co-creation doesn’t come cheap. It requieres a number of steps to deserve the trust, energy and ideas of a group or a person. One of the most important steps is to embrace a group of strangers as if you have known them for years and show that you trust them completely. For a while now, I have been looking for a visual or movie that depicts this step and I have found it. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: June 25th, 2010 | Author: Nikki | Filed under: experts | Tags: co-creatie, co-creation, co-creation experts, expert, experts, open innovatie, open innovation, sustainability | No Comments »
What makes a good co-creation expert? Let’s start with: when can you be called an expert? When you have a degree in a certain subject? Or when you devoted your whole life to another subject?
The Cambridge dictionary states it as follows:
expert noun /ˈek.spɜːt//-spɝːt/ [C]
a person with a high level of knowledge or skill; a specialist
And what about a co-creation expert? Being the Head of Experts at Fronteer Strategy, I like to add something to the above. Yes, a co-creation expert is someone with a high level of knowledge or a certain skill, but it also is someone who is creative, who likes to work with other people and share ideas. Someone who is passionate about his or her occupation, line of business, or just a certain topic in general. Or someone that can shine a different light on a certain subject. First and foremost, a co-creation expert likes to inspire and be inspired. And the expert is very good at what he does, and has a proven track record. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: June 22nd, 2010 | Author: martijn | Filed under: co-creation, public speaking, Rooftop Garden | Tags: co-creatie, co-creation, cocreatie, cocreation, Rooftop, Rooftop Garden, sustainability | No Comments »
Last month I had the great pleasure of presenting our vision on sustainability & co-creation at an event organised by Brand New Design – one of the leading packaging design agencies in The Netherlands. Brand New had gathered 101 inspiring examples of sustainable packaging from around the world. The 101 examples will travel Europe the coming months and hopefully will be available in a book later this year. Adformatie also covered the event (in Dutch). Here is the PDF.
We believe that the sustainability challenge is too big and too complex for anyone to tackle alone. There is no right or wrong, there are merely data points, opinions, visions and personal experiences. What is important then for any company or brand is to work together with experts, partners, suppliers and customers to find out how sustainability relates to their brand promise and business models.
The presentation that I gave is available on SlideShare. In it we make a case for co-creation being a method to create sustainable strategies. Our Rooftop Garden sustainable co-creation tool would be an example of that. Enjoy our presentation and please give us your feedback.
And for those of you who want instant satisfaction: read the rest of this entry for the 10 Green Rules
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Posted: June 17th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: co-creation | Tags: Campaign, co-creation | No Comments »
Ever thought of co-creating your campaign? Well, it pays off! A few months ago we’ve had an inspiring session with the Dutch leading rice brand Lassie. Experts of all kinds collaborated, from famous Dutch cooks, to food- and packaging experts and from to imaginative advertising guys, to magazine-editors.
Our Rooftop method helped the participants to think outside the box, from a consumer perspective. Quite an extensive and fruitful mix of creative brains happen to deliver great results. We knew that, but often we have to deal with long term value and cannot share results on the short term. Now we can.
Watch the new commercial here!
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Posted: May 19th, 2010 | Author: Steven | Filed under: Online | Tags: 22tracks, CERN, co-creation, Internet, nexttonews, the next web, timothy ferris | No Comments »
More and more companies feel that the internet is heavily affecting the way they do business. The whole world is upside down, one person with a positive or negative experience of your product / service can mobilize communities in a flash against or in favor of your business. And the ever increasing snowball of information makes online reputation management a day time job.. At least that’s how it seems.
However, when using the right tools and strategies the internet can actually empower innovation, improve customer loyalty and hand pick all the information you need to know. These tools are already available, but of course we are interested in the tools of the future and these were presented at The Next Web Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 22nd, 2010 | Author: martijn | Filed under: co-creation, open innovation | Tags: Cambridge, co-creatie, co-creation, open innovatie, open innovation, Seminar | 2 Comments »
Open Innovation is hot. Companies, organizations and practitioners all over the world are doing it or experimenting with it. At the Institute for Manufacturing in Cambridge some 20 people gathered for a one-day exchange of experiences and viewpoints. Open Innovation managers were present from amongst others Unilever, GlaxoSmithKline, Akzo Nobel, Premier Foods, BAT – as well as people from IfM and NESTA – the UK 100 man-strong innovation agency.
This is what I have learned: Read the rest of this entry »
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