Opportunities of Open Innovation Environments for Large Infrastructure Projects - NETLIPSE Case Study
Monday 10 October 2011
Technological and organizational excellence is the key element
for business success in any modern
business and project environment. Post globalization and instable
business environments demand
permanent improvements and changes of business processes. "Open the
boxes" and exchange information,
ideas and set-up collaboration with stakeholders such as customers,
end-users, clients,
vendors, business partners, potential competitors - this is a
challenge of current (project-) organizations
and their innovative environments. The open innovation environment
concept was born in
2003, presented by professor Chesbrough from Berkley. Since then,
researchers and practitioners
are searching for successful applications of this idea. How we can
improve the performance of large
infrastructure projects by using this concept of work will be
presented in this paper. The theoretical
introduction will be illustrated by practical example of the
existing NETLIPSE knowledge network.
NETLIPSE is the network for dissemination of knowledge on the
management and organization of
large infrastructure projects in Europe.
Brane Semolic and Pau Lian Staal-Ong wrote an interesting
article on open innovation featuring NETLIPSE as a case study in
IPMA's Project Perspectives. You can find their article here.