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Managing Knowledge in Fuzzy Front End of Open Innovation
ISBN
961-6573-43-8
Type
book section
Date Issued
2006
Author(s)
Abstract
Following the "open" innovation paradigm leading companies are increasingly integrating customers into their innovation processes as they are the wellsprings of ideas and knowledge about the products. This paper focuses on innovation process and how customers can be integrated in that process with help of knowledge management technologies. Wikis are described as effective conversational technology for ad-hoc problems with decentralized knowledge sources, meaning that they are one fitting information technology answer to the cooperative Fuzzy Front Ends of innovation processes, particularly their realization phases.
Our most important contribution is proposal of effective IT tool that enables knowledge
creation and execution of - otherwise highly ill structured - initial stage of open innovation process.
Our most important contribution is proposal of effective IT tool that enables knowledge
creation and execution of - otherwise highly ill structured - initial stage of open innovation process.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
No
Book title
7th International Conference of the Faculty of Management Koper - Advanced Business and Management in Knowledge-Based Society
Publisher
University of Primorska
Start page
1841
End page
1849
Pages
9
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Division(s)
Eprints ID
226419
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