Collaborative Innovation Casebook
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The Collaborative Innovation Casebook, launching here, is an effort to use a collaborative tool -- this wiki -- to collect and organize examples, case studies and best practices of collaborative innovation based on the collective wisdom of past, current and future IBMers, their partners,and the business community at large. The casebook will serve as an information source for business strategists, consultants, students and others. For example IBM's business research arm, Institute for Business Value, will be using information collected here in future white papers. Other organizations will be able to do the same.
Why participate? This wiki is one way to advance awareness of your organization's capabilities in collaborative innovation.
Current business research shows that development of new business models for supporting innovation depends on collaboration. Organizations may prefer to keep their successes out of public view where competitors may benefit from it. Yet many find that by letting others know just how they have succeeded in collaborative innovation they build a pipeline of partnership opportunities for the future. They may also find that innovation for their industry brings growth to all industry players. And, for organizations in the business of societal innovation, the open approach is embedded in their mission.
If you are in a position to share knowledge and insights from a specific business experience, the wiki is an opportunity for business and professional networking. At the same time it can provide recognition of expertise in an emerging area of business and provide you with hands-on experience with a useful collaborative tool.
[edit] How to create a case of collaborative innovation
Let us know of your interest
- First, review this example of a finished case: Case study of Xcel Energy
- Contact Deborah Kasdan at kasdand@us.ibm.com or Shiraz Agwani at shiraz.agwani@in.ibm.com to communicate your interest in a particular case, answer questions about the project, or obtain help in using the wiki.
Sign in to the wiki using the "log in" and "create account" links at top right of this page.
- Logging in will provide attribution(your password) to your content submissions.
- Creating an account will allow you to track changes to pages.
- After signing in, click the edit tab at top of page you want to write on. Or you can publish questions and comments about a page on the associated Discussion page use tab at top.
- Enter content in the submission window, using the rich text tool tabs.
- At the very bottom of the edit page is a link allowing you to preview the page you have been working on. To publish it, click the Save page link.
Share your information
The case you write up may be one for which you have direct or indirect knowledge. Choose your own, or select a case from our "starter" list below. The starter pages have templates for you to fill in.
To learn how to add a page to this list, use the Help link. Help:Contents
If you have privileged information about a case, make sure you have appropriate authorization from the company you are writing about to publish that information here.
About the Collaborative Innovation Casebook
