Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A)

In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aerospace engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization and digital connectivity, those living in remote villages or impoverished urban areas do not have access to education. or very high quality medical care. They believed that with a faster …

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Innovating Singapore’s Chicken Rice

This case is set in November 2020. Lao Hung Jia (LHJ) was an outpost of chicken rice merchants that embraced digital transformation and open innovation from retail, e-payment, and distribution to e-marketing. Although these digital transformation initiatives had helped LHJ improve its customer service, productivity remained an issue, especially when 50 percent of a street …

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OpenIDEO

The case describes OpenIDEO, an online arm of IDEO, one of the world’s leading product design companies. OpenIDEO uses IDEO’s innovative design process and an online community to develop solutions to social problems. The focus is on comparing IDEO and OpenlDEO processes using real project examples. For IDEO, this includes the redesign of Air New …

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Goodbaby: How a Chinese Underdog Became a World Leader Through Open Innovation

Goodbaby is an industry leading manufacturer of youth products. Almost a third of the strollers worldwide are designed and manufactured by Goodbaby with various brands. Founded in 1989 by a master with a single stroller patent, the group has grown rapidly since then and now develops and manufactures internationally recognized car seats, cribs, bicycles, clothing …

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Maire Tecnimont: The Creation of NextChem

Maire Tecnimont is an international leader in the engineering and construction of industrial plants. Since its founding in 1983, the company has grown through a series of strategic acquisitions and continues to focus on industrial solutions based on the latest technology. Maire Tecnimont’s expertise and broad commitment to digitization have made the company an attractive …

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Open Innovation at Siemens

The case describes Siemens, a global innovator in the energy, healthcare, industrial and infrastructure and city sectors, and its efforts to develop and commercialize new R&D through open innovation, including internal and external crowdsourcing competitions. The focus is on examining actual open innovation initiatives at Siemens and their results. This includes the creation of internal …

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Curana: Managing Open Innovation for Growth in SMEs (A)

Curana BVBA was a small family business in Belgium. In the 1990s, it produced fenders and fenders as an original equipment manufacturer for the European bicycle industry. Since Curana BVBA was exposed to increasing competition in 2009, a strategic change had to be implemented. The company focused on the upper market segments and introduced innovative …

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