Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, etc. The cultural requirements for
 Web 2.0 powered innovation, networking and collaboration.

1. Open Innovation
The cultural requirements for
Web 2.0 powered innovation,
networking, and collaboration
Dr. Sam Inkinen
Senior Researcher
Finland Futures Research Centre
www.inkinen.org – www.cid-lab.org

2. Artist: Lotta Viitaniemi, Story: Kim Forsman & Teemu Arina Dicole Ltd.

3. Changes on the web
WEB X.O

4. Web as a platform
Photo: Christopher Chan

5. Software above a
single device
Photo: *One*

6. Data as the new
Intel inside
Photo: _fabrizio_

7. Harnessing collective
intelligence
Photo: Donna Cymek

8. Rich Internet
Applications
(RIA, AJAX)

9. Lightweight business
models, e.g. SaaS
(Software as a Service)
Photo: ulterior epicure

10. Long Tail
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Ref: Chris Anderson

11. “The project would
have been a success
if everything had
gone as we planned.”

12. “Everything would
Myth
work out if we had
the right information
at the right time at
the right place.”

13. Culture
The integrated pattern of human
knowledge, belief, and behavior that
depends upon the capacity for
learning and transmitting knowledge
to succeeding generations.
– Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Photo: Shapeshift

14. Connecting
Anonymous voting
1)
Open conversation
2)
Prediction markets
3)
Many Minds
Internet crowdsourcing
4)
Ref: Cass R. Sunstein, Infotopia

15. Examples
Anonymous
• Kasparov vs. Internet team
• Estimating temperature
Voting
• “Ask audience” in Who
Wants to be a Millionaire
• Movie ratings in IMDB
• Youtube video ratings

16. Why groups can be wise?
Condorcet Jury Theorem
Marquis de Condorcet, 1743 - 1794

17. Wise
Diversity of opinion
1)
Independence
2)
Decentralization
3)
Crowds
Aggregation
4)
Ref: James Surowiecki, Wisdom of the Crowds

18. Conversation
Each of them by himself
may not be of good
quality; but when they all
come together it is
possible that they may
surpass – collectively
and as a body, although
not individually – the
quality of the few best.
– Aristotle on Collective Intelligence,
Politics, circa 334-23 BC.

19. • Groupthink and unthinking
Traps
• Amplification of falsehoods
• Strategic behavior
• Use of heuristics
• From confidence to extremism
• Focus on personal prospects
• Design by committee
Photo: Mike9Alive

20. Design by Committee

21. Filters
Weak
• Surveillance filter
• Mentality filter
Signals
• Power filter
– Dr. Igor Ansoff, 1984
Photo: .supernova.

22. • Group polarization
• Reputational cascades
• Informational cascades
Biases
• Hidden profiles
• Social pressures
• Common knowledge effects
• Algorithmic bias (e.g. Google)

23. Diversity of Thought is
Accuracy of Thought

24. What doesn’t fit in?
3
2
1
Cow Chicken Grass
Ref: Richard Nisbett

25. 1) Economic incentives
Prediction
motivate participation
2) Disclosing information is
crucial for winning
Markets
3) Those who do not know,
will step aside

26. Ecosystem way:
Internet
Crowdsourcing
Photo: Hugo*

27. What is Innovation?
An idea becomes an innovation
■
only through wide adoption,
either through:
■ centralized resources
(traditional innovation)
■ decentralized resources
(open innovation)
commons-based peer-production

28. How’s your innovation pipeline?
Photo: Pavlos Pavlidis

29. Traditional Innovation

30. Open & Organic
Innovation
Photo: ippei + janine

31. What kind of innovation?
Challenge: Challenge:
Business model
new ways ecosystem
innovation
to capture value innovation
What you innovate
Changing
the what
Challenge:
Traditional
Product &
be an innovation
Changing
service innovation
product the how
partner of choice
development
Closed Open
How you innovate Source: Henry Chesbrough, 2007

32. Future Challenge
In the future, organizations will
compete on:
Who is able to create a rich
user community improving
their products where users
want to belong
Image: Felippe Torres

33. “There’s something fundamental about
organizations and leadership that
makes it almost impossible for people
inside a business to change their own
industry. Industries are based on
formats that are basically legacies of
military hierarchies”
Ricardo Semler
Semco
Kuva: GustavoG

34. “Virtually everything new seems to
come from the 20 percent of their time
engineers here are expected to spend on
side projects. They certainly don't come
out of the management team”
Eric Schmidt
Google CEO
Kuva: GustavoG

35. Participation Inequality
1% creators
10% synthesizers
100% consumers
Ref: Bradley Horowitz, Jacob Nielsen

36. Participation Power Law
Ownership
High
Moderating
Engagement
Collaborating
Reflecting
Recommending
Linking
Commenting
Tagging
Rating
Subscribing Low
Reading
Threshold
Collective Collaborative
Intelligence Intelligence
(implicit creation) (explicit creation)
Ref: Teemu Arina, based
on Ross Mayfield

37. Winner of World
Summit Award
Finland 2009
in e-business &
category
CASE

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Innovation
Work
Environment
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41. Blogs Networking
Wikis
Tags
Seeds Media Feeds

42. Organic Enterprise
Nervous system Brain
Feeds, Search, APIs - Wikis, tagging -
Sharing, discovering and Connecting and remixing
tapping into reflections reflectons
Blood system
Senses
Social networking,
Blogs, Media -
Real-time
Reflection in and on action
communications,
Network analysis -
Optimizing interaction flow
Skeleton
Automation, Real-
time processes,
Operative
technologies - Back-
bone for business processes
Ref: Teemu Arina, Illustration: Lotta Viitaniemi

43. Command & Control
should become
Collaboration and Communication
Photo: tashland

44. Contact
Dr. Sam Inkinen
Senior Researcher
sam.inkinen@cid-lab.org
www.cid-lab.org
www.inkinen.org
Photo: Markus Koljonen
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein