The HBR List - Breakthrough Ideas for 2007

Harvard Business Review has just released a list of 20 interesting Ideas with the potential of dominating the year 2007. 18 are quite interesting but two of them are kind of openeurish:

An Emerging Hotbed of User-Centered Innovation

Today, customers aren’t just voicing their needs to companies that are willing to listen; they’re inventing and often building what they want. (Eric von Hippel) 

The Best Networks Are Really Worknets

An unruly nebula of concepts is floating around the business world right now—social webs, open innovation, customer-created content, and more—all exploring one big question: Now that we see the power of human networks, how can we use them to produce value? Applications ranging from InnoCentive, Eli Lilly’s network for solving scientific riddles, to Internet Based Moms, a Web site where work-at-home moms can seek and share advice on starting Internet businesses, prove the point that many heads are better than one. (Christopher Meyer)

The image illustrates 5 best-practice steps for building a succesful worknet:

worknets

 

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