A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing: Expert Tips and Advice

by Paul Sloane

A Guide to Innovation and Crowdsourcing will help readers find innovative products and services from outside their organisations, make them work and contribute to their business strategy and overcome the practical difficulties that lie in the way.

Genres: Business

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 3, 2011

About the author

Paul Sloane read Engineering at Trinity Hall Cambridge. He came top of Sales School at IBM, became MD of Ashton-Tate UK, VP International for MathSoft and CEO of Monactive. He now writes, speaks and gives workshops on lateral thinking in business, creativity, innovation and leadership. He is married and lives in Camberley in Surrey. He has three grown-up daughters. He is a keen chess and tennis player and he plays keyboards in a rock band, the Fat Cats. He has written a series of lateral thinking puzzle books, many co-authored with Des MacHale, published by Sterling Publishing. They have sold over 2 million copies and been translated into many languages. He has also written two management books, published by Kogan Page, and many articles for blogs and websites. He manages the Lateral Puzzles Forum where puzzlers can set and solve lateral puzzles.

Reviews

[Monika Radclyffe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very insightful if you're interested in crowdsourcing platforms, what works, what doesn't, how to encourage participation etc. Right now, I am working on building a platform like that, hence the book was very very helful.

[Danny Sierra · Rating 4 out of 5]

It gives practicioner a general view of open innovation in different spheres of OI management. I recommend it to read it though.

[Astrid · Rating 2 out of 5]

A good introduction to the subjects, but very thorough.