My last post was on the TEDtalks available for free on their website. Today I watched Charles Leadbeater talk about the innovation and especially the innovation made by users, the Pro Amateurs. These are the 1% of people all communities passioned about the subject, product or service they use. The Pro amateurs are surfers of the blue ocean – the guys in the garage cooking up software, the college guys creating communities for friends or the dudes taking a surfboard and modifying it to go down snow filled hills.
Charles makes so many great points in his speech, but the last minutes are the climax for me – what is the future bringing in the world of open and closed innovation. Could even the public sector mix up the open innovation strategies to better their productivity and efficience. This could open up the lines of communication from office to HQ making improvement a joint effort instead a down poor of consultant cook-ups. Well this is enough ranting about the possibilities of open innovation culture within closed innovation business. Just listen to Charles – 18 minutes not wasted.
