What Other Industries Can Teach Carriers

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Special Report: What Other Industries Can Teach Carriers

It isn't stealing, honest. Insurers are learning from innovations currently in play in manufacturing, banking and other markets. >>

Forbes: 'Productivity Crisis In R&D'

Forbes magazine publishes an article by Henry Chesbrough: Productivity Crisis In R&D
Chesbrough discusses how companies can change their business models to become more open and how they can leveraging external R&D resources to save time and money in the innovation process.

Times Online: 'Come on, take a side: it’s nerds v the Luddites'

Richard Susskind discusses what peer production and mass collaboration may mean for the law.
Times Online, Jan 23: 'Come on, take a side: it’s nerds v the Luddites'.

Buiness Week: Tapping the Wisdom of the Crowd

Buiness Week (January 18,2007):
"Tapping the Wisdom of the Crowd"
While not a new phenomenon, crowdsourcing is really growing as a business trend. Here are five successful collaborative communities [>>]

Wikinomics: 7-Part Series in the Toronto Globe and Mail

1. Part 1: Peer Pioneers
2. Part 2: Ideagoras
3. Part 3: Prosumers
4. Part 4: The New Alexandrians
5. Part 5: Platforms for Innovation
6. Part 6: The Global Plant Floor
7. Part 7: 'Us' power

Also interesting: Suffer the Children

Chesbrough: 'Embracing Open Business Models'

TechWeb published an interesting article by Henry Chesbrough: 'Embracing Open Business Models':

"Companies that keep their intellectual property too close to the vest risk missing out on critical business innovations that idea-sharing could generate. Open business models foster collaboration with customers and suppliers to everyone's benefit." [>>]