Videos

These days there is a great deal of interest in user involvement in innovation – not least in the potential for ‘co-creation’ of products and services. But whilst the principle is exciting the challenge of actually making it happen – and building a business around user-led co-creation – is significant.

Catherina van Delden, founder and CEO of a German company, Innosabi, has some pretty impressive examples of what can be done. Products co-created by a growing community include foods, cosmetics and fashion accessories – and are proving to be extremely popular when they finally hit the shelves! So much so that Catherine and her team were awarded a Ministerial prize last year for the most innovative e-business start-up in Germany. In this video interview she talks about the company – and you can find out more at their websites: www.unseraller.de  and www.innosabi.com.

‘Minimonos’ is an online game aimed at children which currently has around 250,000 players and is growing fast. (www.minimonos.com)
It has a particular focus on sustainability and is a great illustration of the innovation space opening up in this area. In this video interview the company’s founder (and Alpha-Monkey!) Melissa Clark-Reynolds gives some great insights into the entrepreneurial process and the challenges which growing the idea into a successful business poses.

David Simoes-Brown of 100% Open talks about innovation management and the challenges and opportunities offered in working in the ‘open innovation’ space.

In this video interview David Simoes-Brown talks about some of the innovation management challenges involved in working with the new ‘open innovation’ environment.  More about the company and some case studies and examples can be found at:

http://www.100open.com/

Helle-Vibeke Pedersen is responsible for innovation within the Danish Ministry of Taxation and in this video talks about some of the challenges of enabling innovation in the public sector.

More details can be found at:

http://www.skm.dk/foreign/

She is also involved with Mindlab, an innovation support agency which develops new approaches and builds innovation management capacity in the Danish public sector.  Mindlab is ‘owned’ by the Minsitries of Taxation, Employment and Economic Affairs.

More details of their work and some case studies can be found at:

http://www.mind-lab.dk/en

Helle-Vibeke is also writing a case study of the Danish experience for the website.

Armin Rau, Strategy Partner of Sicap, talks about some of the innovation management challenges in working in the fast-moving world of software for mobile devices.

In this video interview Armin Rau, Strategy Partner of Sicap, talks about some of the innovation management challenges in working in the fast-moving world of software for mobile devices. Sicom is a spin-off from Swisscom, the Swiss national mobile operator and more information can be found at:

http://www.sicap.com/en/

Armin is also writing a case study of the Sicap experience which will be available on the website.