Open source community and crowd innovations have not only drastically changed the way products
and services are developed but also the way we work and live. Yet organizations of all kinds
may they be small or large globalized or local etc. still struggle to effectively adapt to
this social however technology-enabled trend. This work sheds light on community-based
innovation development within organizations i.e. organizational innovation communities. Three
major questions are tackled: How to introduce organizational innovation communities or how to
build communities from scratch? How to manage organizational innovation communities or can we
manage creativity? How to foster employee engagement or how to turn ordinary employees into
innovation hot-spots? Based on qualitative as well as quantitative research methods the author
derives in-depth and surprising insights as well as hands-on recommendations to speed-up
improve and foster innovation development.
