{"id":601,"date":"2010-02-01T14:03:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T19:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/ibit\/?p=601"},"modified":"2025-06-12T05:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T09:52:48","slug":"managing-open-innovation-how-and-what-to-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/managing-open-innovation-how-and-what-to-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Open Innovation: How and what to open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/yxy23\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-758\" style=\"margin: 0px 7px;border: grey 3px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/yooweb.png\" alt=\"Youngjin Yoo\" width=\"75\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.temple.edu\/directory\/profile\/tlhill\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-771\" style=\"margin: 0px 7px;border: grey 3px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/TLHill1.jpg\" alt=\"TL Hill\" width=\"75\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Youngjin Yoo and TL Hill<\/h3>\n<p>February 2010<\/p>\n<p>The recent spread of open innovation is based on the insight that, with the help of information technology, distributed individuals can contribute to complex innovations. At its best, open innovation promises creative, robust solutions to complex problems. At its worst, open innovation threatens managerial and ownership headaches as firms try to reconcile openness with control. This report proposes guidelines to help managers think through the trade-offs involved in designing open innovation strategies. In particular, we offer principles for open innovation; a checklist for determining readiness for open innovation; and a menu of ways to manage open innovation from which managers can draw when designing their own open innovation strategies.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Information technology, particularly emerging Web 2.0, plays a very important role in implementing open innovation approaches.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IBITOpenInnovation.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-776\" src=\"http:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DownloadNow.png\" alt=\"Download Now\" width=\"125\" height=\"35\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u00a9 2011 The IBIT Report, Institute for Business and Information Technology, Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. All rights reserved. ISSN 1938-1271.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent spread of open innovation is based on the insight that, with the help of information technology, distributed individuals can contribute to complex innovations. At its best, open innovation promises creative, robust solutions to complex problems. At its worst, open innovation threatens managerial and ownership headaches as firms try to reconcile openness with control. This report proposes guidelines to help managers think through the trade-offs involved in designing open innovation strategies. In particular, we offer principles for open innovation; a checklist for determining readiness for open innovation; and a menu of ways to manage open innovation from which managers can draw when designing their own open innovation strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"sidebar-content-sidebar","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-report","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8vQSu-9H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4530,"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/4530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibit.temple.edu\/ibit-report\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}