Many R&D leaders are beginning to recognize the value of Open Innovation and sourcing expertise and help from outside the organization. Restricting the source of your company’s innovation to knowledge and expertise held within your organization is giving yourself an unfair disadvantage. Many companies have found answers to important problems from sources such as academia, retired experts and consultants. Online services have been created to match companies’ quest for solutions with experts able to provide those solutions.

Creating a community of experts and possible problem-solvers could provide the knowledge base you need to overcome obstacles and drive new innovation in your product range. Engaging those experts in an online community where they can discuss and debate issues that are important to them can give you crucial insight, as well as enable you to determine possible development paths and the source of ideas and solutions.

Firestarter’s user dashboard system enables you to quickly and effectively create an online community for a targeted group. The dashboard system presents the tools and functions in front of the user in an intuitive personalized interface designed to drive adoption and use. The administrative controls give you the management over subject matter, as well as giving you insight and metrics into activity.

R&D organizations that create their own “innovation communities” are giving themselves the opportunity to access new, exciting and meaningful ideas and solutions from experts they have identified as valuable.

Contact us today to discuss how your organization can start an Innovation Community – or register for one of the webinars.