Opportunity Creation in Innovation Networks: Interactive Revealing Practices

Innovating in networks with partners that have diverse knowledge is challenging. The challenges stem from the fact that the commonly used knowledge protection mechanisms often are neither available nor suitable in early stage exploratory collaborations. This article focuses on how company participants in heterogeneous industry networks share private knowledge while protecting firm-specific appropriation. We go beyond the prevailing strategic choice perspectives to discuss interactive revealing practices that sustain joint opportunity creation in the fragile phase of early network formation.Center for Business, Technology and La

Boundaries and Innovation

boundaries and constraints as enablers, rather than forestallers of innovation

Constraints and innovation: introduction to the special issue

types of innovation-enabling constraints are discussed, the articles are introduce

Boundary setting strategies for escaping innovation traps

examines to what extent resource constraints can cause innovatio

boundaries and innovation

provides an overview of recent work on boundaries and innovatio

Scarce resources inspire creativity

provides guidelines for managers to innovate during a crisi

Why learning from failure isn't easy. And what to do about it.

investigates the failure of sun microsystems ultra thin computer clien

in praise of resource constraints

proposes that under certain conditions, resource constraints, rather than resource slack can enhance innovation team performanc

Less is more: What car manufacturers can learn from an innovative start-up

examines a case study of resource constrained innovatio

Strategic Innovation: The definitive guide to outlier strategies

GET TO THE FUTURE FIRST! LEVERAGE STRATEGIC NOVELTY (SN) TO TRANSFORM AND DOMINATE YOUR MARKET Become an \u201coutlier organization\u201d: recognize huge opportunities in novelty, and act fast and first Listen for the tremors already building beneath your markets Learn from winning \u201coutlier\u201d business models, organizational forms, markets, products, and services Today, the companies that rise rapidly to dominance are the outliers. They\u2019re radically novel where it matters: whether in business models, products, services, or some other key driver of value. Strategic Innovation reveals how to think like these vanguard organizations\u2013and become one of them. You\u2019ll discover how to borrow the lenses and insights of companies operating right at the edge of conventional industry dynamics and boundaries\u2026where opportunities are underdefined, predictions unstable, and the greatest opportunities exist. Using linked case studies and a proven three-step methodology, the authors guide you through uncovering Strategic Novelty (SN) with explosive potential\u2026executing quickly\u2026 and learning and tweaking relentlessly to amplify your impact. If you keep doing what everyone else is doing, you may succeed\u2013but not greatly, and not for long. If you want to create, transform, and dominate your market, you need to think and act like an outlier. Learn how. Now. Before someone does it to you. Right now, all around you, there\u2019s an explosion of new business models, new product/service categories, and new organizational forms. It\u2019s a veritable Cambrian Explosion of business life, led by outlier organizations you\u2019ve never even heard of. Many will remain practically invisible to the incumbents in their markets\u2026until they suddenly explode into dominance. What do they share? A fundamental commitment to Strategic Novelty (SN). Now, in Strategic Innovation, leading innovation strategists Liisa V\ue4likangas and Michael Gibbert show you how to leverage SN to become your industry\u2019s winning disruptor. You\u2019ll master SN through case studies from leading outlier organizations in areas ranging from 3D printing to crowd financing and resource-constrained innovation. Each case is original, previously unpublished, and based at least in part on the authors\u2019 direct experiences. Through these cases, you\u2019ll explore how each company\u2019s story is playing out: sometimes in failure, but often in massive success. You\u2019ll discover why incumbents rarely notice outliers in time, and how to keep it from happening to you. Perhaps most valuable of all, the authors help you extrapolate the likely impact of any novelty, so you can tell the difference between promising opportunities and those destined to fail. The proven methodology for profiting from Strategic Novelty (SN) Three steps + powerful tools to: Identify the WOW What excites you? Unsettles you? What does that mean? What does it say about you? Execute the SO WHAT? Choose and apply the strategic ideas most likely to enrich your organization Amplify the OOMPH Experiment, learn, and lead to maximize the impact of novelt