Managing knowledge spaghetti - John Bessant October 2011

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Managing
knowledge
spaghetti
John Bessant
October 2011
The innovation imperative ...
                New response needed

Low                                            High
uncertainty                               uncertainty

               Old response appropriate
Three challenges ……..

• Spengler …..
• Spaghetti …..
• Sappho .....
When did you last use your
       Spengler?
Invention is not enough

                                                 Musical flamethrower

 Gas-filled umbrella

                       Decoy ducks & stay dry!   Cheese-flavoured cigarette

Foetus Walkman
Understanding innovation

                         How we think about something….

… shapes the way we manage it
Partial models of innovation …

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Three challenges ……..

• Spengler …..
• Spaghetti …..
How innovation happens?

        Process           Success (?)
How it really happens ...
The knowledge spaghetti challenge

• Knowledge rich world - $750bn R&D, 7bn
  people, increasingly global and virtual
• The old innovation challenge, but new context:
  – How to find knowledge?
  – How to deploy knowledge?
  – How to explore and exploit?
• How to connect?
Open innovation
Spenglers to spaghetti - innovation is
           about connections …
•   it’s a multi-player game – open innovation
•   complex knowledge flows, not just knowledge creation
•   the spaghetti model of innovation – inside and outside
•   mix’n’match - ‘recombinant’ innovation
Innovation is a solo act?
Spenglers to spaghetti - innovation is
           about connections …
•   it’s a multi-player game – open innovation
•   complex knowledge flows, not just knowledge creation
•   the spaghetti model of innovation – inside and outside
•   mix’n’match - ‘recombinant’ innovation
•   How to make it happen? - brokers, bridges,
    gatekeepers, connectors, culture, process….
Three challenges ……..

• Spengler …..
• Spaghetti …..
• Sappho .....
How to make half a
 million dollars PROFIT
each month with no risk,
   no MBA, no capital
investment, and (almost)
       no employees
Get: 800 submissions per week; Print:
about 4 new products each week; this
makes 50,000 to 65,000 shirts a month.
A winning designer gets $2000
- this is great money for these
              guys.
But the biggest money is for us: $18m sales,
35% profit margin – and all this with much fun
         and less than 20 employees
The transformation of LEGO

                                                                                     NEW!

2000         2001     2002             2003          2004                  2006              2008

          My Own    My Own       LEGO Digital   LEGO         LEGO Factory              ???
 Mosaic    Train    Creation       Designer     Factory     (Online Customization)
Working with knowledge spaghetti

• Emerging ‘industry’ around making
  connections – new services, new roles and
  functions, new culture for innovation
• Information/communication technology (ICT)
  tools
• Design methods and thinking
5 categories of ICT tools for OCI
Screenshot Googlelunarxprize
Kurze Beschreibung in Notizen
Netnography – online communities as source of innovation
Cosmetic applicators

Professional tanning booth „mystic tanning“
                                              Adjustable professional airbrush pistol
Tanning Disasters
                                            S: MY GOD!!!!!!!! THIS SOOOOOOOOOO HAPPENED TO ME!!!! i absalutely HATE the jergens natural glow
                                          now. my neck was sooo blotchy and my dad told me i looked like i had a skin disease!!!!!!! it was impossible to
                                          scrub off the remaining parts!! i scrubbed and scrubbed at my neck with a lufa until my skin was red but the
                                            blotches still wouldnt come off!!! i ALSO have the jergens natural glow for the face(which was the biggest waste of
                                              money) because ya! i would apply it before iwent to bed and the next morning-NOTHING!! it didnt even work
                                                                    and it stunk horribly and gave me a stuffy nose!! i will NEVER use this line again!!!!!!

                            TanSweetHrt4Hi                                                                    Source: www.iamtan.com / no date and time available

Challenge of De-Tanning
                                              Q: I know we talked about this a little while ago, but I tried using nail polish remover to make sure the
                                            corners of my nails didn't get orange, but it didn't work. Normally I just clip my nails really short so if
                                               there is discoloration you can't really tell that much, but it's really starting to bug me. The nail polish
                                                                                               remover is acetone free... does that make a difference?

                                                                                                     Source: www.sunless.com / 10-29-06 20:01 until 10-31-06 08:39
                                Jamie A

Different seasons – different tanning habits
                                         S: Fall and winter is a good time for new people to practice or for those of us who like to experiement with
                                                                            new techniques. Mistakes are hidden under long pants and long sleeves.

                                                                                                                        Source: www.sunless.com / 10-31-06 07:25
                             Laurie lu

Racoon Eyes and cosmetical corrective
                                            I think that I have the worst racoon eyes in the world. Everyone at the gym I work at has let me know
                                            that my eyes are REALLY WHITE. I looked at a pic of me from a few days ago and it looked like my
                                            eyes where glowing in the dark! You gotta wear the goggles when you use a tanning bed so I think the
                                                                                        best solution unfortuneatly would be to use sunless tanner.

                                  rocker-tan                                                                                                Source: www.iamtan.com
Innovation
                 markets

Innovation                    Innovation
 contests                    communities

      Innovation        Innovation
     technologies         toolkits
Innovation
                 markets

Innovation                    Innovation
 contests                    communities

      Innovation        Innovation
     technologies         toolkits
> Title of item: Flat Knot
> Function: fruit bowl   CNC version
> materials: 1mm stainless steel sheet (mirror finish).
> Dimensions: 55cm x 45cm, W 25cm L 45cm H 19cm after
folding.
> Information file format: DXF, DWG
> Information output device: CNC laser cutter.
> Information output medium: 1mm stainless steel sheet,
directly from file.
> User production skill level: intermediate.
> User modification skill level: high
> |
Open Design by Ronen Kadushin
OCI tools offer …….

               Unlimited participation

WWW              Local dispersion
                                         SH1

                Speed of interaction

                  Global memory
Slide 48

SH1        dispersion anstelle von distribution richtig?
           Stefan Hallerstede, 1/26/2010
Design methods

•   Help articulate latent and hidden needs
•   Ethnography
•   Prototyping
•   Simulation
•   Storytelling and metaphor
The SAPPHO challenge ....

•   Project SAPPHO, Sussex University, 1972
•   Users matter in innovation!!!
•   Users aren’t passive (especially in services)
•   Active users and the ‘democratization of innovation’
•   Working with ‘extreme users’ and disruptive innovation
Emerging futures for innovation ……..

• Acceleration of well established trajectories
  – Open search
  – Open involvement
  – Open stakeholder participation
• Technologically and socially enabled
• Emergent properties around ‘open
  collective innovation’
Summary

• Innovation matters – survival and growth
• Requires active management
• Moving target requires dynamic capability
• Challenges across the innovation system –
  rethinking our approaches
• More of? Less of? Different?
• Need to learn new tricks ……
Learning isn’t easy ….

            “… Here is Edward Bear, coming
            downstairs now, bump, bump,
            bump, on the back of his head,
            behind Christopher Robin. It is,
            as far as he knows, the only way
            of coming downstairs, but sometimes
            he feels that there really is another
            way, if only he could stop bumping
            for a moment and think of it .… “
Further resources

• Cases, tools, further reading – ‘Managing
  innovation’ book and www.managing-
  innovation.com
• AIM – Advanced Institute for Management
  Research – www.aimresearch.org
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