Collaboration with partners, suppliers and customers has become a strategic imperative for companies in the networked world of business; there are company-centric and customer-centric views of collaboration. This also applies to the manu...
The question is: “what will manufacturing processes of the future look like, and what will be their defining features?“ There is an increasing demand for products that match customer expectations precisely and more closely, in a timely a...
The principle of ‘Open Innovation’ as introduced by Chesbrough (2003) has become widely used in a range of industries. It is widely accepted that open innovation is concerned with combining internal and external ideas as well as inte...
