Comments on: Open Innovation http://innovationzen.com/blog/2006/11/27/open-innovation/ Innovation Management, Business Strategy, Technology and more! Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:44:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: niblettes http://innovationzen.com/blog/2006/11/27/open-innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-1507 niblettes Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:19:48 +0000 http://innovationzen.com/blog/2006/11/27/open-innovation/#comment-1507 War has been a metaphor for business for far too long. War of course is the ultimate zero sum game. I think we're strating to see alternative metaphors for business; metaphors that aren't zero sum games; metaphors based on openness and cooperation; ecological metaphors. John Hagel talks about edge compotencies, and how there are more smarter people outside your org than inside of it. How do you access these folks? Openness and cooperation seem like good starts. War has been a metaphor for business for far too long. War of course is the ultimate zero sum game.

I think we’re strating to see alternative metaphors for business; metaphors that aren’t zero sum games; metaphors based on openness and cooperation; ecological metaphors.

John Hagel talks about edge compotencies, and how there are more smarter people outside your org than inside of it. How do you access these folks? Openness and cooperation seem like good starts.

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