| Table of Contents | 5 |
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| List of abbreviations | 6 |
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| The Importance of Innovation Management at Deutsche Telekom Technological Uncertainty and Open Innovation | 8 |
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| Deutsche Telekom Laboratories as a Testbed for Modern Technology and Innovation Management | 12 |
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| References | 17 |
| Endnotes | 18 |
| Strategic Foresight | 19 |
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| Introduction | 20 |
| Continuous foresight | 21 |
| Customer foresight | 22 |
| Technology and competitor foresight | 24 |
| Project-based foresight with strategic roadmapping | 27 |
| Environmental analysis | 27 |
| Scenario development | 28 |
| Roadmap development | 28 |
| Navigation board development | 29 |
| Conclusion | 29 |
| References | 30 |
| Endnotes | 31 |
| Integration of Academic Research into Innovation Projects: The Case of Collaboration with a University Research Institute | 32 |
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| Introduction | 33 |
| Linking academic research to the firm s R | 33 |
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| The case of a network security innovation project | 36 |
| The research challenge | 36 |
| Related work and evidence for the use case | 36 |
| Theory of the challenge | 37 |
| Solution and implementation | 37 |
| Discussion of the use case and the innovation process | 39 |
| Conclusion | 40 |
| References | 42 |
| Implementing Open Innovation to Benefit from External Dynamics of Innovation | 43 |
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| Introduction | 44 |
| Actors of the open innovation ecosystem | 45 |
| Development partners and competitors | 46 |
| Research institutions | 47 |
| Customers and markets | 47 |
| Organizational design and implementation of the open innovation paradigm | 48 |
| Structural organization | 48 |
| Process organization | 50 |
| Cultural aspects of the organization | 51 |
| Conclusion | 52 |
| References | 53 |
| Partnering for Research and Development within an Open Innovation Framework | 55 |
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| Introduction | 56 |
| Cooperation models | 57 |
| Industrial collaboration | 57 |
| Subcontracting | 59 |
| Pre-competitive collaboration | 61 |
| Innovation clusters | 61 |
| Regional cluster of Berlin | 62 |
| The European Center for Information and Communication Technologies | 62 |
| Conclusion | 64 |
| References | 64 |
| Business (Lead) Customer Involvement in the Innovation Process | 66 |
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| Introduction | 67 |
| Involving corporate partners as an element of open innovation | 67 |
| General requirements for innovation involvement | 71 |
| Business-customer process involvement | 74 |
| Conclusion | 76 |
| References | 77 |
| Tools for User-Driven Innovation at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories | 79 |
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| Introduction | 80 |
| Theoretical foundations | 80 |
| Innovation and innovation phases | 80 |
| Customer research and the limits of traditional tools | 82 |
| User-driven innovation at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories | 84 |
| Use case: interactive mobile TV | 84 |
| User-driven innovation for interactive mobile TV | 85 |
| First Phase: Exploration | 86 |
| Second Phase: ideation | 88 |
| Third phase: selection/execution | 89 |
| Fourth Phase: Commercialization | 91 |
| Conclusion | 92 |
| References | 93 |
| Options for Customer Integration in the Open Innovation Paradigm at Deutsche Telekom | 96 |
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| Introduction | 97 |
| Need and prerequisites for open innovation in the telecommunications industry | 97 |
| Open innovation through customer integration at Deutsche Telekom | 98 |
| Lead user method | 98 |
| Ideas competition | 100 |
| Virtual communities | 102 |
| Toolkits for innovation | 103 |
| Conclusion | 105 |
| References | 105 |
| Segmentation and Evaluation Tools to Project Customer Potential | 107 |
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| Introduction | 108 |
| Heterogeneous consumer needs in a rapidly changing market | 108 |
| Indications for future product success in the early phases of innovation | 109 |
| Social milieus as a basis for customer segmentation | 110 |
| The origin of social milieus and their implications for market segmentation | 110 |
| Quantifying the qualitative: inherent challenges when using milieu theory and market studies in the process of new product development | 111 |
| Projecting customer potential by using the Customer Evaluation Tool (CET) | 114 |
| Translating insights from market segments into the language of product managers and decision makers | 114 |
| Online recording devices a customer evaluation tool use case from the field of IPTV | 115 |
| Conclusion | 119 |
| References | 121 |
| Endnotes | 122 |
| Cross-over Application of Enterprise Architecture and Modularization in Telco R | 122 |
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| Introduction | 124 |
| Enterprise architecture in telco R | 124 |
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| Enterprise architecture as an approach | 125 |
| Present enterprise architecture thinking in a nutshell | 127 |
| The reasons for enterprise architecture in telco R | 127 |
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| (a) Complexity management with alternative technology choices | 129 |
| (b) Implementation uncertainty due to distance between strategic and operational level | 130 |
| (c) Innovation processes synchronization | 130 |
| Modularization as an approach | 131 |
| Present modularization thinking overview | 131 |
| Modularization from the telecommunication industry perspective
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