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Rating Your Innovation Program: Vanity Metrics vs. True Impact

Moves the Needle

How do you measure the success of your innovation program? You are measuring website traffic, video views, innovation team sign-ups, etc. When it comes to measuring the success of your innovation program, engagement in the real world and observed behavior change are primary. Getting the numbers right is crucial.

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Imaginatik Charts the True Path-to-Value for Breakthrough and Continuous Innovation Management

Imaginatik

BOSTON – March 1, 2018 – Today Imaginatik, the #1 ranked leader in corporate innovation management according to Forrester Research, announced a major update to its industry-leading Innovation Central software aimed at enabling enterprises to maximize their ROI from breakthrough and continuous innovation programs.

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Why “Path-to-Value” is Crucial for Corporate Innovators

Imaginatik

Recent conversations with a new Imaginatik client, from late 2017, have stuck with me these past few months. It highlights the importance of a new concept that every corporate innovation leader needs to internalize: the Path-to-Value for each innovation. Executives are hoping for big things from the innovation group.

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FinTech and Machine Learning

IdeaScale

These programs can grow and change on their own once they know how to learn and some financial companies are beginning to use machine learning for a variety of different reasons. This idea was shared in an internal innovation program called Up Squad. But perhaps best of all this prototype tool reduced failure demand (i.e.

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Culture: Innovation’s Biggest Challenge

IdeaScale

Culture is the starting point for the success of all innovation programs and it is also a project that is never complete. To read more findings from our 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report, download it here. The post Culture: Innovation’s Biggest Challenge appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Zebras - Not Unicorns - for Profitable and Scalable Corporate Innovation

Innov8rs

Beyond internal innovation, Zurich is also continuously looking for solutions externally. These responses are then broken down into themes, which provide the submission categories for the Innovation program. Popularized in a 2017 Medium article, zebra startups balance profitability with sustainability. This is the zebra.

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How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. Start Small And Build. To learn more, request a demo.