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Gwen Smith Ishmael, Sr. Vice President of Insights and Innovation at Decision Analyst in Arlington, TX, has led marketing and new product development activities in the CPG and technology industries since 1986. She also conceived and developed ground-breaking Web-based promotional vehicles, two of which are patent pending. Gwen holds an MBA in Marketing and is a featured speaker on insights and innovation around the world. Her writings have been featured in international text books, most recently in Managing 4 Ps of Marketing FMCG Sector, and Product Innovation: A Strategic Tool for Growth, by ICFAI Publications, 2006 and 2007, respectively.

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Renee Hopkins Callahan Renee Hopkins Callahan started IdeaFlow and serves as chief blog-wrangler. She is Director of Innovation Services at Decision Analyst in Arlington, Texas, is a former journalist who worked as an editor and reporter for The Dallas Morning News and the Nashville Tennessean, and was managing editor of D, the Dallas city magazine. She has a master's degree in rhetoric and has also taught college-level English and informal logic.
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May 5, 2004

Open Innovation and the Bridge project come to 'Fast Company'

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Posted by Renee Hopkins Callahan

IdeaFlow contributors Hank Chesbrough and John Wolpert are mentioned in the Fast Company article, The World Is Their R&D Lab. The article's a short take on some practitioners of open innovation (the article refers to them as "innovation middlemen"). Of course, Hank literally wrote the book on Open Innovation, and John just left IBM to head up an Australian pilot project on Open Innovation, the Bridge Innovation project.

And while on that subject, I want to welcome all the Australian subscribers to this blog who subscribed because the Bridge Innovation project will be an ongoing topic of conversation here. I'm looking forward to hearing more about this project, myself!

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