Open Innovation Maturity and Supply Chain Success

Open innovation provides an opportunity for organizations to enhance their collaboration with supply chain partners within their business ecosystem. For some companies, gauging the maturity of their open innovation efforts is a challenge. The Ecosystem Enabled Innovation Maturity Model (EEIMM) provides insight on how organizations perform within four innovation domains.

Many supply chain organizations engage in innovation to identify areas for improvement and develop resilience to potential disruptions. To reflect the complexity of the supply chain, companies should consider an open innovation approach. This views supply chain partners as collaborators and co-creators. The extent to which organizations engage in this type of innovation can be measured within four domains using a five-point scale.

This infographic gives a snapshot of the different levels of maturity in the EEIMM, how organizations rate on the four domains of open innovation, and how open innovation can lead to success.

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