Author Archives: Janelle Noble
EllisDon speaks on the company’s challenge of sharing information across numerous employees in dozens of jobsites. Using innovation management software, the company developed Uprising, a portal through which employees can communicate across various barriers. Continue reading
Peter Neumann from Bosch, a leading provider of innovative high-quality automotive technology, consumer goods and industrial technology products, presented at a recent Birds of a Feather Innovation Leaders (BOF) event hosted by Kraft. Mr. Neumann discussed open innovation initiatives looking for new tool and enhancement ideas using Brightidea software. Continue reading
Tapping Users Minds, Adobe launches Adobe Labs Ideas This is the first of several ‘Innovation Perspectives’ articles we will publish this week from multiple authors to get different perspectives on ‘How should firms collaborate with customers and/or value chain partners to co-create new products and services?’. Here is the initial perspective in the series: by Janelle Noble Global software leader Adobe Systems, Inc. recently launched a new initiative to go outside of their organization to facilitate research and development on emerging products and incorporate user-feedback into their online developer community, Adobe Labs™, The new initiative, named Adobe Labs Ideas™, utilizes multiple interfaces to provide ideation capabilities for specific Adobe products, including Adobe AIR™, Adobe Flash Builder™, Adobe Flash Catalyst™, Adobe Flash Professional™, Adobe Flex™, Adobe LiveCycle ES™ and WorkflowLab™. For Adobe, the ability to collect and prioritize feature suggestions and feedback has the potential to dramatically improve workflow and increase … Continue reading
Open Government is everywhere. Governments at all levels, municipal, city, and federal agencies are taking dramatic steps to open the traditionally closed processes and reform their IT structures to go open source and embrace cloud computing. What is the end goal? Well, there are several. At the highest level one could say it is to use the latest technology and social web tools to provide better services to constituents while opening up channels for communication between government, its employees, and citizens to gather feedback and new ideas on pressing issues such as the budget, safety, and transportation. In September of 2009, Tim O’Reilly (who coined the term Web 2.0 in 2004) wrote an opinion piece outlining his vision for Government, or Gov. 2.0 and stated it was more about transforming government into a technological platform. In it he references sites like Whitehouse.gov and data.gov, highlighting the difference between governments providing … Continue reading
