Open Innovation: A new way to think about creativity in your organization

This method allows the realization of creative meetings, no matter the size or the degree of homogeneity of the group.

Open innovation aims at giving back the initiative to the members of the organizations in order to develop creativity as a whole inside the company.


Open innovation takes between a day and a half and 2 days, and is made of several essential steps:

• Inviting the participants: All volunteers, the participants are asked a question before hand in order to get prepared to the discussion. Therefore, all are knowledgeable in the subject they want to debate with the group.

• Agenda of the day and choosing the themes of the workshops: The participants are invited to think about the most relevant themes in their opinion to tackle the question asked. Through this process of sharing, the agenda is everyone’s making.

• Rules of functioning: The participants must abide by clear guidelines and rules, all communicated in a big circle to the participants.

• Splitting off the participants to the workshops of their choice, the latter being made on a voluntary basis and without any notion of hierarchy. Participants are free to work on the themes of their choice, to switch themes, as many times as they feel is efficient. Workshops are therefore created with a true group spirit, since all people working are motivated by a common subject. Each group is responsible for the respect of deadlines and the content. The only duty of the group is to type and produce a report of the discussions to be shared with the remaining groups.

• Following the discussions in each group: a summary of every group’s progress is being broadcast live on the “Grand Journal”. Therefore at anytime, everyone can have an eye on what the others are talking about.

• Prioritizing and deciding action plans: After reading the report, a poll is used to reveal which actions to implement first for the organization, leading to the creation of both a collective and individual action plan. As a result, the whole organization contributes to the strategic plan.

• Printing of a collective report: Summary of the final work of each working group.

This method puts collaborators back at the center of the organization in a perspective of “empowerment”.

The individual has a say over the decisions, he feels engaged, motivated and especially listened to. He works therefore with pleasure and increases voluntary its contribution to the vision of the organization.

Besides open innovation enables the organization in a very short amount of time and with limited costs to gain results even with large-sized groups (2000 people).

Finally the immediate production of a report makes it possible for the capitalization of engaged discussions and accelerate the jump to actions. Both the individuals and the organization take in change.

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