Crowdsourcing

  • Mozilla Firefox

    Supporting Innovation and Choice by Moving Software to Open Source

    by Patricia Seybold
    For anyone interested in understanding how to engage customers in co-designing a new product of any kind, the story of Mozilla Firefox provides some great best practices.
    Apr. 20, 2006
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  • National Instruments

    A 30-Year History of Enabling Customer Innovation

    by Patricia Seybold
    National Instruments fosters customer-driven innovation in many ways.
    Apr. 6, 2006
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  • Introduction to Outside Innovation

    The Outside Innovation Imperative

    by Patricia Seybold
    The outside innovation process involves engaging with lead users and lead customers in a variety of roles to create new products, processes, and business models. There are 7 ways in which outside innovation differs from traditional innovation processes.
    Mar. 30, 2006
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  • Lego Mindstorms NXT

    Powered by Customers’ Inventiveness

    by Patricia Seybold
    LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ has been Lego’s highest revenue producing product. It was developed (and enhanced) by Lego’s customers.
    Mar. 16, 2006
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  • Open Source Considerations

    Evaluation Criteria for Open Source Solutions

    by Brenda Michelson
    The inevitable has happened. Open source has moved all the way up the enterprise stack. No longer are enterprises contemplating if they should use open source, but rather, where to use it. This report offers considerations for your adoption decisions.
    Oct. 20, 2005
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  • Apple’s Lessons for the Rest of Us

    Customer-Led Innovation

    by Patricia Seybold
    Apple’s iPod strategy is paying off brilliantly. The popular iPod, with its iTunes legal music library, has created a halo effect for the rest of Apple’s computer business.
    Jan. 27, 2005
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  • How the Blogging Community Accelerated Tsunami Relief

    Blogs and Wikis Are Providing Instant Visibility, Information-Sharing, and Coordination

    by Patricia Seybold
    Disaster relief in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit the shores of Southeast Asia and Africa has been accelerated by the rapid response of the blogging community.
    Jan. 6, 2005
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  • Project Avalanche

    Corporate IT Executives Band Together to Evolve Shared IP

    by Patricia Seybold
    The Avalanche Corporate Technology Cooperative, also known as "Project: Avalanche" is a brand new corporate customer-led initiative to enable corporate IT executives to extract more value out of their IT investments. Avalanche Cooperative members can now
    Apr. 15, 2004
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  • The Rebirth of Collaboration

    Keeping Collaboration, Workflow, Collaborative Commerce, and Business Process Automation Straight!

    by David Marshak
    Collaboration is hot! However it is also being confused with business process integration, collaborative commerce, and workflow.
    Feb. 28, 2002
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