Tag / co-creation

by YannigRoth

When co-creation is more entertainment than social product development: Quirky “reinvents the bicycle” in 24 hours

 

Nowadays, bikes are trendy. The industry is growing, mainly thanks to trends like eBikes and fixies, that broaden the target audience of cycling conciderably. The popular social product development platform Quirky recently decided to Reinvent The Bicyle in a 24h brainstorm on its platform, and the above image shows the outcome of the brainstorm, designed by Quirky’s design team in San Francisco, CA. Let’s have a look at the process… and the resulting bike, Modus. Continue reading →

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Two videos by leading co-creation vendors: projects & people

Why do people participate in co-creation & Where do you find them

Answering these questions basically leads to one answer: COMMUNITIES

 

Forrester Research recently issued its Forrester Wave™ about Co-Creation vendors in 2011.This report can help consumer product strategy professionals to choose a vendor to work with in idea generation or content creation projects, and compares 6 actors of the field: eYeka (Paris, France), jovoto (Berlin, Germany), Hyve (Munich, Germany), ChallengePost (New York City, USA), Redesignme (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) and NapkinLabs (Boulder, USA). This post is not about the report (download it for free here) but about two neat videos released by Hyve and eYeka recently, check it out… Continue reading →

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One brand, different platforms (Part 3) Coca-Cola unleashes passion and engagement

The world is too fast, complex and networked for any company to have all the answers inside

Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth Of Networks

In the previous weeks, I blogged about co-creative initiatives of Danone and three different co-creation engagements of Heineken. While the examples I used shows how Danone choses according to the local/global scope of co-creation projects, Heineken’s choice seems to focus more about the specialization of the co-creation platforms they work with, from calling for ideas to managing a whole on/offline process. The part of our series about the way online platforms are being used as intermediaries by brands, we’ll have a look at  Coca-Cola, which is renown to be a brand people get passionate about. Such a global brand just has to co-create since a lot of its value lies in peoples’ emotional engagement. Here are a couple of examples:

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One brand, different platforms (Part 2) Heineken builds on deepness of engagement

The world is too fast, complex and networked for any company to have all the answers inside

Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth Of Networks

Last week, we highlighted co-creative initiatives of Danone and their preference for global/local communities. As a second part of our series about the way online platforms are being used as intermediaries by brands, we’ll have a look at Heineken, and three different co-creation campaigns run with different actors of the field – and on different platforms, including facebook. Continue reading →

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One brand, different platforms (Part 1) Danone builds on geographic diversity

The world is too fast, complex and networked for any company to have all the answers inside

Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth Of Networks

It is the mantra of open innovation advocates: go find outside what you’re unable to figure out by yourself. What started in the scientific field with success stories like InnoCentive or NineSigma, now spreads to product development and marketing. Companies source more and more ideas directly from consumers, with online platforms being the only intermediary, with the logical consequence of an explosion of web-based platforms. Today, distinctive positionings emerge within this new competitive landscape (which is a situation of healthy competition, I think) and brands don’t hesitate to leverage different platforms for different purposes.

This series of posts sheds light on a couple of brands that use that platforms’ in a complementary manner. This week, I take a look at Danone, for which I identified three different co-creation platforms.

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Money-making platforms are rare: the cost of co-creation

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When Hyve retweeted Sense (two renown co-creation consultancies), I thought the information must really be interesting. And it was. A report about Winning and Failing Co-Creation Platforms which compares 20 different platforms by interest, community scope or interaction tools.

Even though the report does have some flaws, its conclusion is very insightful and concludes that “money-making platforms are rare“, which is perfectly true. To generate cash, companies either have to sell community-output (like Quirky or Local Motors) or make big companies pay for using the platforms (like eYeka or InnoCentive). Co-creation, Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing… all these iniatives bear costs that can’t be neglected ! Continue reading →

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Will co-creative strategies lead to greater good?

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Co-creation, which can be defined as the active, creative and social process of collaboration between producers and consumers,  is definitely a trend. What started with pioneering initiatives in IT (Orange and Cisco), sports (Nike+Apple) or commodities (Starbucks) is now seen as a major transformation of business. A recent report showed that ALL surveyed firms considered co-creation to be key in the future, whether it be for innovation, marketing or distribution purposes. A German consultant, Achim Feige, created a matrix called “Good Business Matrix”, which describes businesses along 4 axes. In 2 of these 4 axes (brand community and brand performance), co-creation is considered to be the most advanced level… the “Good Brand”-level. Now are co-creating companies better companies than the others? Continue reading →