Open Innovation

Hi,

Have you been exposed to open, collaborative innovation or what McKinsey is calling "distributed co-creation" philosophies, techniques or tools? This is a very popular theme moving across the world right now...where are the great ideas coming from, and possibly not from within the 4 walls of your own organization.

Here's a link to a McKinsey article on this topic. You'll need to quickly register, but it's a free article:

http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Information_Technology/Networking/...

This looks like an exciting trend. Any thoughts, points of view, or interesting tidbits to add regarding this trend?