The Indoor Garden: Cultivating Openness Inside the Organization

by Joseph Feller

Over the last decade, we've been engaged in an exploration of open innovation, crowdsourcing, peer production (such as open source software and Wikipedia), and related phenomena. In this Executive Report, I examine what we've learned about (and from) these phenomena and explore how these lessons can be applied to knowledge sharing, information processing, and product/service co-creation processes within "internally open" organizations.