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Lessons Learned About Innovation Communications from the City of Calgary

IdeaScale

In fact, government is sometimes seen as one of the least innovative industries , but some of our best stories this year came from the government. In this case, the City of Calgary was a leader in generating engagement with their innovation program. They launched a full internal multi-channel marketing strategy.

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Announcing the 2016 Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

Having received some fantastic entries, we have officially chosen and are extremely pleased to share our winners for the 2016 Innovation Management Awards. JUMP stands for J oin the discussion, U nveil innovation, M otivate transformation, P romote technology-to-market. What We Learned.

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Intrapreneurship Chicago 2016

Gregg Fraley

So, you may be surprised when I bend over backwards to promote Intrapreneurship Chicago 2016. Chicago area innovators and intrapreneurs, take note. Craig Wirkus , Innovation Program Manager, Cisco. Matt Krathwohl, of Notre Dame’s Innovation Program. The social events are fun, but a bit… forced.

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4 Great Innovations that Started as Employee Ideas

IdeaScale

This tenet underpins most of crowdsourcing and all open innovation programs. And if this marketer hadn’t shared their idea in a crowdsourcing community, the product team might never have found it. Opening an Adjacent Market in the Financial Sector. That suggestion created an additional line of revenue over $21.5M.

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Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?

Paul Hobcraft

We’re often left feeling powerless to influence the type of change that we want to see, to release our creative juices and not simply to make those quarterly reporting numbers or get caught up in constant cutbacks when they don’t meet market expectations. But first, when you think of innovation, what comes to mind?

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Planbox Acquires Imaginatik Creating an Agile Innovation Powerhouse

Imaginatik

The new unified team also brings together two seasoned professional service organizations that combined have decades of consulting experience in the Innovation Management market and can now fuse their knowhow to deliver an unparalleled set of domain expertise and next practices. About Imaginatik. Media Contact.

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5 Ways to Fail at Innovation

Imaginatik

Yet, within corporations, innovation programs are fragile things. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Innovation programs thrive on processes and metrics that don’t mesh easily with the core. For corporate innovators, risk lies around every corner.