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This is the first piece in a blog series written by Ehsan Ehsani on innovation management leading practices.

In conjunction with the resent oil spill disaster the U.S. Federal Government and BP tapped into open innovation as one way to solve the problem. Only in a few weeks, over 20,000 suggestions were received. Not surprisingly, these kinds of open innovation efforts hardly did anything to solve the problem. Why is that? Ehsan Ehsani, researcher and consultant with Accenture in New York City elaborates on some of the reasons behind the low level of success in this open innovation initiative in his column on a current hot topic: Web-enabled open innovation.

How can companies truly take advantage of the power of web-technology to create value for their innovation process? Read more in this column by Ehsan Ehsani, researcher and consultant with Accenture Product Innovation and PLM practice in New York City.

InnovationManagemenet is proud to present yet another experienced and knowledgeable columnist; Ehsan Ehsani, researcher and consultant in the area of innovation and product development. Ehsan is working with Accenture Product Innovation and PLM practice in New York City Office and has previous experience from a variety of firms both in Europe and the United States. This is the first in a series of monthly columns starting off with a hot topic: Web-enabled open innovation.