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Qmarkets & Amer Sports – An Innovative Partnership that Created Unprecedented Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

Amer’s R&D team grew from 487 people at the close of 2009 to 802 people at the close of 2016 – amounting to 9% of all employees and 9.5% In 2015, Amer implemented Qmarkets’ Q-max platform for crowdsourcing, sharing information, idea development and evaluation, with tools that drove both white and blue-collar participation.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Leisa Reichelt

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. As a designer for a prominent open source community project, what have you found to be the keys to success in working with open source developers, specifically on the usability and experience fronts?

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Building a Culture of Innovation

Fehmida Kapadia

This model of unbridled creativity made Zappos wildly successful and it was acquired by Amazon in 2009. Engage in and encourage outsider thinking “Outsider creativity isn’t a phase of life, it is a state of mind” ? It allows us to engage with problems and situations that we don’t fully understand, but can solve a a team.

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Qmarkets & Intesa Sanpaolo Card: Tailoring Innovation Management for the Finance Industry

Qmarkets

Intesa Sanpaolo Card is a provider of payment solutions, which was founded in 2009 as a member of one of the largest banking groups in Europe. Qmarkets again topped the list of competitors in this area, with an offering that is designed to guide clients on a clear path to expansion, and an expansive portfolio of additional solutions.

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Qmarkets & Intesa Sanpaolo Card: Tailoring Innovation Management for the Finance Industry

Qmarkets

Intesa Sanpaolo Card is a provider of payment solutions, which was founded in 2009 as a member of one of the largest banking groups in Europe. Qmarkets again topped the list of competitors in this area, with an offering that is designed to guide clients on a clear path to expansion, and an expansive portfolio of additional solutions.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

It’s estimated that a loss of more than $2 trillion in world-wide economic growth occurred between the second quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009. To gain that all-important edge, it’s advisable to survey the marketplace – through crowdsourcing projects, ? million jobs and saw the fall of 25 federally-insured banks.

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

Collaborative engineering: a term mainly used in conventional manufacturing and production industry, with a focus on collaboration between two or more partners in the full process of design, engineering and manufacturing with multidisciplinary teams and supply chain integration. More information: Lichtenthaler (2009).