Platform for Open Innovation Launched

The 'monsterboard.com for innovation' is the best description for the launch today of fellowforce.com. This dot-com offers organizations a platform for open innovation and problem solving. In the same easy way as posting a vacancy, organizations can post their innovation challenges or toughest problems. As their tagline says: Why ask a local expert when you can ask the world?

From today, there is a totally new approach to innovation and problem solving. Fellowforce.com is the first venture to fully connect organizations with the limitless outside source of users, consumers and enthusiasts and their expertise. Any organization, worldwide can now tap in from the outside for ideas, innovations and solutions. Posting a challenge on the fellowforce.com virtual board will act as a trigger for talent worldwide.

User generated news website SKOEPS.com and the globally operating think-tank FutureWorkForum/FWF are two of the early adopters of this platform. For expanding the concept abroad, improving the website and backoffice and building a community of citizen reporters, SKOEPS contacted Fellowforce. Michael Nederlof, director of SKOEPS: Fellowforce offers SKOEPS an excellent opportunity to get in touch with professionals, who can help us face our challenges and take the concept of SKOEPS to a next level. Also FWF chairman Mike Johnson is exited about this opportunity and enthuses From today, every business is a global business thanks to fellowforce.com. Imagine, you and your business can reach the world AND the world can reach you. Fellowforce has already captured the enthusiasm of several organizations. Already using their platform are the youth community Generation Europe, THIS, Livedouble, and the UK consultancy firm TOSCA group.

According to the two founders Jack Allerts and Ruben Robert this initiative is an alternative to consultancy firms, limited focus groups and an organization's existing pool of experts. Innovation and solutions will come from all over the globe, says co-founder Ruben Robert An American engineer will deliver the solution to an engineering problem from a German SME company; a Brazilian enthusiast can submit a new application idea to Nokia; a Spanish strategy expert will come up with a winning business model for a Greek dotcom venture. This is Wikinomics in practice.