Open Innovation Forum

Collaborative innovation in a time of social distancing – 5 things we now know

By rnd-admin
on 1 May, 2020

Like so many meetings, the IfM’s Open Innovation Forum's March workshop, was hastily reconvened into a virtual event due to the coronavirus crisis. Co-organiser Dominic Oughton, discusses some of the learning points.

Food for Thought – The Open Innovation Forum finds a hotbed for start-ups

By rnd-admin
on 5 January, 2018

Dominic Oughton reflects on the 2017 Open Innovation Forum Pitching Contest and the ways in which the competition has evolved since its inception.

Innovation Fitness Test - a tool to help scoring

John Bessant recommends this tool developed by colleagues in Canada which helps with using...
Most useful tools for R&D Management

Ask which are the most useful tools for R&D Management and you will find...
The challenge of applying TRIZ tool kit for ideation

TRIZ (the theory of inventive problem solving) provides a logical approach to developing creativity...
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

To fail fast can save enormous waste later in the product lifecycle. Failure Mode...
'How to' statements

A useful tool in creative problem solving is the ‘how to’ statement which provides...