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Where Open Innovation Stumbles

Harvard Business Review

A recent project we did for FVA, a branch of the German trade association VDMA for companies that provide drive-train systems and components, bears this out. Or: "the technology is close, but not quite developed enough." They're more fully developed, further along the R&D timeline, and often easier to modify for your application.

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

However, using personal data (emails, calendars, etc) and spreadsheets, some practitioners are developing personal yield management tools. Physiological systems" experiments. Given the sheer number of tools being developed, this might be the rich area for business experimentation.