Agile Open Innovation Platform: Managing Value Cocreation to Face Health Challenges in the Post-pandemic Era

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Most of proportion of global disease burden and premature death could actually be prevented through enabling healthy lifestyle. However, many previous initiatives failed to address this challenge, because they tend to solve it in isolation and ignore the system complexity that tend to be complex, asymmetric, vague, and erratic. It is a necessary to shift our thinking from traditional way using reductionist to systemic approach. AIM: In this paper, we propose a novel approach Agile Open Innovation platform based on collaborative, adaptive, visionary, and  experiential (CAVE) principles in the cocreation of innovation initiatives to manage the public health challenges. METHODS: This platform explores and exploits ideas from internal and external sources. It encourages ideas to come from anywhere not just from health professionals. At present, public or people who are not working in health sector have difficulties to contribute and apply innovative ideas into the system. Consequently, many ideas that be developed fail to fit the user priorities. Hence, we design a system to facilitate multi-sided collaboration in health innovation initiatives. RESULTS: As the result of this research, we have developed a prototype of platform, as part of Innovation-Driven Excellence in Eco- Adaptive System living laboratory, to accommodate health innovative solutions be developed in the agile manner with continuous improvement and iteration from involved users. As illustrative case, we create health challenge and health forum in this platform with the topic “How can technology be enabler for people to be physically active with ease and fun in the (post) pandemic period” to promote active and healthy behavior lifestyle. CONCLUSION: One of the examples developed solution, it has successfully opened prospective ideas in the form of augmented reality application as a way to promote and educate physical activity in the current and post-pandemic era.