Speaking in South Korea
After two years I am in Daegu, South Korea again. This time to attend SAIPEKS meeting and do a few guest lectures. SAIPEKS is an EU-Korean project where 4 partner universities from Europe (Metropolia Helsinki Finland, Warzsaw Poland, Northumbria UK, University of Ljubljana Slovenia) and 3 partner universities from Korea (Kyungbook National University, Keimyung University, Yungnam University) collaborate in establishing means and structure for student and teaching mobilities. Besides meetings of project-control and project-future nature, i have delivered a visiting talk at each of the three Korean universities.
Innovation is one of the key critical success factors of today’s companies. The goal of the lecture is to discuss and present how to improve the innovation processes in companies by structuring them and opening them up to external partners such as customers, suppliers. It presents how and in which stages of the innovation processes contemporary information technology (traditional such as corporate solutions and emerging such as crowdsourcing, wiki, tagging, twitting, social networking) can be used fruitfully. The aim of the presentation is thus to show how technologies can be embedded into the innovation process to increase its effectiveness and efficiencies. The presentation is based on latest academic findings and state of the art practices of innovative companies such as Boeing, Dell, Siemens, Swarowski, Procter & Gamble, Google, Whirlpool, Washington Mutual, Lego, Flavors and Fragrances, and others.