Following the culture of collaboration, the need for constant improvement to sustain the competitive advantage is to be fulfilled through open innovation. This new approach entails leveraging the network of stakeholders to contribute in the innovation efforts in various fields such as marketing contents, product development, new technologies and business model innovation.
To successfully meet all the destination model needs for innovation, it is necessary to engage a large pool of stakeholders in various fields of expertise. For such purpose, experts outside the local community of stakeholders may have to be searched for depending on the required field of expertise. Furthermore, it is convenient to train stakeholders in some disciplines such as business model innovation, to establish a common framework and language that facilitates discussions.
As explained in upcoming White Papers, open innovation systems are to be quite different depending on their scope of influence, whether they be region wide or only for a local destination, whether they are only focused on marketing ideas or encompass other areas of collaboration. The Whitepaper “Envisioning open innovation in destinations” is to explain all possible approaches.
Do you think that open innovation could help to solve other challenges apart from technology development, business model innovation, product development and content marketing creation?
