The Open Innovation Revolution: Essentials, Roadblocks, and Leadership Skills

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Open Innovation Revolution is both handbook and reality check for practitioners.Stefan provides frank views of Open Innovation practice; with examples of companies who are OI pretenders, contenders, and champions. He correctly recognizes that in order to integrate external partners into an internal organization, one must begin with people instead of process. The partnership must be grounded in trust, focused on objective and guided by process.He provides some useful lessons of how corporate executives and entrenched business leaders can act as "antibodies" to arrest progress toward OI-related change. Lofty talk of OI objectives may be quickly brought down the priority page in favor of short term margin goals by well established sales and marketing executives. Practical case summaries help support his views.

This is an excellent practical guide to making open innovation happen in your organization, with understandable, executable steps, highlighting the opportunities and challenges. Braden Kelley's summary is a great summation of the book. If you are interested in Open Innovation (OI), if you are being told to start an OI program, if you see the need for OI in your company, perhaps even defining OI as between business units, silos, in your company, this is the book to get. If you've done OI for a while, this book is still very relevant to help you expand your OI ventures.