Project - BASF External Collaboration Portal

Hannah Schulz

Ann-Kathrin Wacker

Marius Gutzeit

Christian Saur
Description
Challenge: Design an 'External Collaboration Portal' following an open innovation approach to position BASF as the innovation leader within the chemical industry.
Iteration 1
Empathize
Research Material for independent research
Research Material provided by BASF regarding Open Innovation
27199952.pdf A review of literature on open innovation in small.pdf asymmetric collaboration.pdf BUILDING AN OPEN INNOVATION.pdf Cooperating with external partners The importance of diversity.pdf Development of practitioner guidelines for partnerships.pdf DIFFERENT MODES OF OPEN INNOVATION.pdf Final presentation thesis.pdf How do large multinational companies implement open innovation.pdf InnoCentive Case A.pdf InnoCentive Case B.pdf Maturity Framework Enkel Bell.pdf Partnering-Cycle.jpg Road to innovation with open innovation.pdf The emergence of openness How and why firms adopt selectiverevealing in open innovation.pdf Thesis final.pdf Unlocking the innovation potential in large firms.pdf 2018-10-30 Collaboration Portal[5725].pdfInitial group call - BASF Workshop Prep
Initial call to prepare for the Workshop at BASF on November 9th, where we will present the DSD methodology to BASF.
2018-10-30 Workshop at BASF Nov 9 2018[5722].pdf 2018-11-09 Workshop.pdfReading Assignments and Summaries
Summary of literature
Research articles split up in the team and creation of a short overview on each paper.
Paper Summaries Hannah
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
Paper Summaries Ann-Kathrin
A review of literature on open innovation in SMEs; VCI - Innovationsstudie; Assymetric Collaboration
A review of literature on open innovation in SMEs.docx VCI - Innovationsstudie.docx Assymetric Collaboration - Collaborative innovation in R&D partnerships of low-tech and high-tech firms.docxPaper Summaries Christian
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"
Kickoff BASF Lufwigshafen
Paper Summaries Marius
Chesbrogh Open Innovation und andere
OpenInnovation_Chesbrogh_Literature_Summary.docx PartnershipStartup_Minshall_Literature_Summary.docx ModesofOpenInnovation_Lazzarotti_Literature_Summary.docx OpenInnoInLargeFirms_BASF_Literature_Summary.docx CooperatingExternalPartners_Beck_Literature_Summary.docxDefine
Interviews
Intermediate presentation
Persona 1
Ideate
Prototype
Parallel paper prototyping for the first wireframes
Development of first paper prototypes
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Iteration 2
Empathize
Define
Second Interview Round
Requirements Specification and Documentation of Further Ideas
Further definition of specific portal requirements after all interviews.
Persona 2,3 and 4
Ideate
User Journey
Create User Journey for internal and external use cases.
Prototype
Paper Prototype
Created Full flow Paper Prototype
Level 1 prototype
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
Level 2 prototype
Development of actual external collaboration portal with basic functionalities.
Most important outcome from interviews: ONE portal fits all, consolidation of existing platforms
Test
Feedback from Inverviewee on first prototypes (Level 1 and Level 2)
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.
Iteration 3
Empathize
Define
Ideate
Prototype
Core Platform Prototype
Core Platform Prototype in AxurePR
Level 3 Prototype
Development of final prototype including further functionalities like crawling,
personalization, tags, etc.
Test
Feedback from BASF on Level 3 Prototype
To get feedback on the developed prototype a call with the BASF project owners was scheduled.