A Facilitated Expert-Based Approach to Architecting 'Prizeable' Complex Systems

摘要

This study builds on the premise that open innovation methods can be effectively applied to more complex engineered systems through a particular kind of decomposition, one that decouples parts that are suitable for (1) distant expert serch. (2) sampling from the right tail, and (3) force multiplying. This paper develops and demonstrates a method that leverages a facilitated expert workshop to elicit those kinds of "prizeable" problems. Our research context - the NASA Asteroid Grand Challenge - had previously suffered from the perception that there was no meaningful role for open innovation methods to play since the physics was such that observation is dominated by contributions from institutional players. However, through our workshop, we both demonstrated that prizeable subproblems exist - even in this highly complex system - and that the proposed approach is capable of eliciting them. The paper concludes by reflecting on the implications of this exercise for open innovation in general.