NineSigma

NineSigma, Inc.

NineSigma
Type	Private
Industry	Open Innovation, Innovation Consulting, product development
Founded	Cleveland, Ohio, US (2000)
Headquarters	Cleveland, Ohio, US
Key people	John McIlwraith, Chairman Andreas M. (Andy) Zynga, CEO Paul S. Stupay, Chief Sales Officer Bill Chorba, Chief Financial Officer Rick WielensCEO, NineSigma Europe Akihiko Suwa, President and CEO, NineSigma Japan
Products	Open innovation, crowdsourcing, OI Readiness Process Development
Website	www.ninesigma.com

NineSigma is an open innovation services provider that connects organizations with external innovation resources to accelerate innovation in private, public and social sectors.

History

Dr. Mehran Mehregany, Goodrich Professor of Engineering Innovation, Case Western Reserve University, founded NineSigma in 2000 on the premise that industry needed an effective means for broadcasting corporate needs to potential solution providers to stay ahead of the technology curve, similar to the methods employed by the U.S. Government research group, DARPA.

Company

NineSigma global headquarters are in Cleveland, Ohio, with additional offices in Leuven, Belgium, Tokyo, Japan., Melbourne, Australia and Seoul, Korea.

• NineSigma Europe
• NineSigma Japan
• NineSigma Australia
• NineSigma Korea

Competitors

Competitors offering similar services include IdeaConnection, Innocentive, Inpama.com, IXL Center, MillionBrains, Nottingham Spirk, SpecialChem, Presans, Tekcapital, Yet2.com, product council and YourEncore.

See also

• Open innovation

External links

• NineSigma
• NineSights