Forms of user driven innovation

On our reserach we have uncovered severeal ways of working with user driven innovation in a company perspektiv. We have developed a figure with 2 dimensions illustrating how users can be a part of an innovation process: A user can either be directly or indirectly involved in the innovation process, and the knowledge being tapped from the user can be related to either acknowledged or unackacknowledged needs. This gives 4 broad areas of how companies can work with user driven innovation: a) User tests, based on marketing understanding; user ethnography, where users are observed and interviewed; user innovation, where advanced users innovate together with the company; and user participation, where users partiticate in shaping the ideas for the innovation. (See figure)

Workshop with Experts

On a work shop we discussed our findings, framework and thought with selected innovation professors. E.g. We mapped the different approaches to user driven innovation 3 dimensionally.



We thanks the Professors; Axel Rosenø, Lars Bo Jeppesen and Steffen Jöhncke, for their participation.

Vestforbrændingen: Involving Advanced Users in Developing Recycle Containers

We meet with Brit Schøt-Nielsen to hear about the process in 1997 - 1999, when they where developing these recycle containers. The containers have now become the new standard for recycle containers in Denmark.

DI Involves Childeren and Food Companies in User Innovation

See more at www.food-lab.nu Thank you Lise!

Mutopias User Involvement Board Games

The architects at Mutopia are involving users by using board games:



Thank you for an interesting interview and for the photos

SAS innovating with users

Dear David Gram, Thank you for the interview.

SAS involves frequent flyers in their innovation proces

IO Interactive interview