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OI has emerged as a new paradigm that acts as force multiplier

and accelerator for an organization’s internal innovation

efforts. OI approaches, including challenges, contests and

communities, help to eliminate internal bottlenecks in

knowledge, skills, schedules, and budget by engaging the

rest of the world in a company’s innovation-related problem

solving efforts. Organizations using OI approaches have

reported better, cheaper and faster solutions that help

meet internal innovation objectives. However, navigating

the current landscape of OI approaches and understanding

the internal issues with adopting an external perspective is

a signifi cant barrier to the effective utilization of OI in an

organization.

The Open Advisors team has more than a decade of experience

in practicing and researching a variety of OI approaches in

the private, public and non-profi t sectors. The team has

collectively run over 700 challenges in advanced analytics

and computation, space sciences, life sciences, organizational

management and various engineering technologies. The

team has also implemented systematic OI programs in a

range of organizations. The Open Advisors team is uniquely

positioned to help organizations understand how OI can be

integrated within their own innovation processes and to

enable learning, piloting and scaling of OI programs that can

deliver results.

The webinar will provide information on the two workshops

that OA offers during a 60 minute presentation, followed by a

30 min question and answer session. The one-day workshops

are designed to help key leaders and innovation practitioners

in an organization understand how OI can fi t within their

existing innovation approach and the challenges and

opportunities related to working with various OI approaches.

The Digital Innovation & Transformation workshop generally

addresses OI and provides practical information on how to

develop, execute, and scale OI within an organization. It

also addresses the challenges of organizational and cultural

change. The informative and interactive format includes

proven case study methodology, expert presentations, and

hands on discussions of the pros and cons of OI.

The Computational Contests workshop is aimed at those

organizations already familiar with OI generally, but not

with the specifi cs of designing and conducting computational

contests. The Open Advisors team will help the organization

identify the right problems to solve using a portfolio

analysis approach, identify those problems that are most

suitable for computational contests, and offer practical

recommendations for moving forward with the OI initiative

including the organizational structure needed for an effective

implementation.

We invite you to join us for a 90 minute webinar on Wednesday, March 8 at 2:00 pm CET on the

topics of Digital Innovation & Transformation and Computational Contests. The webinar will

be conducted by the Open Advisors team, with many years of open innovation (OI) experience

from Harvard and NASA, and provide information on workshops that assist organizations in

learning, assessing, planning and executing open innovation initiatives that create real impact.

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Karim R. Lakhani is a Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, the Principal Investigator

of the Crowd Innovation Laboratory and NASA Tournament Laboratory at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social

Science and the faculty co-founder of the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative. He specializes in technology

management and innovation. His research examines crowd-based innovation models and the digital transformation

of companies and industries. Professor Lakhani is known for his pioneering scholarship on how communities and

contests can be designed and managed to achieve innovative outcomes. He has partnered with NASA, TopCoder and the

Harvard Medical School to conduct field experiments on the design of crowd innovation programs. His research on digital

transformation has shown the importance of data and analytics as drivers of business and operating model transformation

and source of competitive advantage. He serves on the Board of Directors of Mozilla Corporation and Local Motors.

Jeffrey R. Davis, MD is the founder and CEO of Exploring 4 Solutions, LLC, and a visiting fellow of the Crowd Innovation

Laboratory at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He is a recognized international leader and consultant

in strategic innovation, human system risk management in health care systems, and space and aviation medicine.

He provides consulting expertise and experience in strategic innovation through collaborative and open innovation

projects, organizational change management, and project management. Prior to Exploring 4 Solutions, Jeff served as

the Director, Human Health and Performance, the Chief Medical Officer for the NASA Johnson Space Center, and the

deputy director for the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). He is certified by the American Board

of Preventive Medicine and holds an active Texas medical license. Additional information can be found on LinkedIn.

Jin H. Paik is the General Manager at the Crowd Innovation Lab/NASA Tournament Laboratory at Harvard University. In

his role, he oversees the development of open innovation projects through partnerships with NASA, federal government

agencies, and partner academic institutions. He advises organizations and firms on innovation processes and prize-based

contests for solving complex problems. He has worked extensively on programs ranging from the International Space

Station, precision medicine, and medical imaging. He is currently on the advisory committee for NCI‘s Coding4Cancer Lung

Cancer Screen Challenge. Prior to joining the team, he worked at the Harvard Kennedy School and Mathematica Policy

Research. He holds a bachelor‘s degree from the University of Michigan and a master‘s degree from Harvard University.

Elizabeth E. Richard is founder and principal of EER Strategies, LLC and a visiting fellow of the Crowd Innovation

Laboratory at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science. She was previously a senior strategist for

NASA’s Human Health and Performance Directorate at the Johnson Space Center where she was responsible for

strategic planning and partnership development, and was instrumental in the establishment of the NASA Center of

Excellence for Collaborative Innovation. She serves as a consultant specializing in innovation strategy, collaborative

engagement, organizational change management, open innovation and strategic planning in the public, private

and nonprofit sectors. She received her bachelor’s degree from the Pennsylvania State University and her Master

of Business Administration from the University of Houston. Additional information can be found on LinkedIn.

Dr. Rinat Sergeev is Senior Data Scientist & Chief Scientific Advisor at the Crowd Innovation Lab/NASA Tournament

Lab at Harvard University. Rinat works as a head of data science team, and a lead science and technical expert on

exploring and utilizing crowdsourcing approaches in application to the data science and algorithmic challenges,

coming from NASA, Business, or Academia. In his role, Rinat provides full guidance and support on the way of the

project from learning the area and formulating the problem, to controlling the challenge execution and analysing

it’s outcome, working closely with all the parties involved. Rinat received his PhD in Quantum Mechanics in Ioffe

Institute, Saint Petersburg. Following his innate curiosity, he pursued challenges in a variety of academic fields, from

Semiconductors to Immunology and Epidemiology. His research interests include conceptual analysis, analytical

approaches and models in multiple areas. His personal interests include Math puzzles, strategic games and politics.

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