Project - BASF External Collaboration Portal

Research Material provided by BASF regarding Open Innovation

• research
• Start
• Open Innovation
• Empathize

Initial call to prepare for the Workshop at BASF on November 9th, where we will present the DSD methodology to BASF.

• Presentation
• Preparation
• Workshop
• BASF
• Ludwigshafen
• Digital Service Design

Summary of literature
Research articles split up in the team and creation of a short overview on each paper.

• research
• Open Innovation
• summary
• collaboration
• literature

How do large multinational companies implement open innovation;
OI Maturity Framework;
NineSigma - short Presentation 2017;
Partner Selection for Open Innovation;
The emergence of openness;
Unlocking the innovation potential in large firms through timely and meaningful interactions with young ventures

A review of literature on open innovation in SMEs; VCI - Innovationsstudie; Assymetric Collaboration

Maturity Framework for OI Collaboration, InnoCentive Case Studies A+B
The "Final presentation" gives a good, short overview over the Master´s Thesis "Methodology for maturity of OI"

Friday , Nov. 9th 2018: Kickoff Workshop at BASF site in Ludwigshafen

Chesbrogh Open Innovation und andere

First interviews to further understand problem and needs within BASF

• Expert Interviews
• Contextual Laddering
• Discover Phase

Presentation at IISM

BASF Researcher - Dr. Bernd Weber

Development of first paper prototypes

• Prototyping
• teamwork
• Wireframes
• Parallel Prototyping
• Paper prototypes

Interviews to further understand needs of BASF, startups and academics

• Requirements
• Experts
• Interviews
• Needs

Further definition of specific portal requirements after all interviews.

• Expert Interviews
• Requirements
• Interviews
• specification
• prototype preparation

• Definition
• Requirements
• Persona
• Problem Definition

Create User Journey for internal and external use cases.

• journey
• user story
• university
• startup
• internally
• externally

Created Full flow Paper Prototype

• Prototype
• journey
• Paper
• FullFlow

First prototype with basic ideas to increase visibility of BASF as an innovation partner.
Use existing web landing pages for digital Startup collaborations and expand throughout BASF

• Prototype
• Open Innovation
• level1
• innovation

Development of actual external collaboration portal with basic functionalities.
Most important outcome from interviews: ONE portal fits all, consolidation of existing platforms

• Prototype
• Open Innovation
• level2
• development

Got back in touch with BASF 4.0 Tech Scout to talk about first prototype ideas and sketches. As power user of collaboration Tools, he provided valuable Feedback we fed back into the prototyping process.

• Prototype
• Feedback
• testing

Core Platform Prototype in AxurePR

• Prototype
• Platform
• Core
• AxurePR

Development of final prototype including further functionalities like crawling,
personalization, tags, etc.

• Open Innovation
• level3
• personalization
• crawling
• AI

To get feedback on the developed prototype a call with the BASF project owners was scheduled.

• Prototype
• test
• Feedback
• final
• input