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Transforming workplace culture with your innovation management program

IdeaScale

Defining and achieving concrete improvements in organizational culture and employee performance is a challenge for organizations of all types. You might also consider simply integrating innovation management processes into more granular team operations with short ideation sprints rather than large organization or division-wide campaigns.

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How NASA Leads Intrapreneurial Innovation

InnovationManagement

But in fact, back in 2011 (after they ran a highly successful crowdsourcing pilot) NASA established the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). Not everyone knows that NASA has embedded crowdsourcing into their strategy and capabilities.

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Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector

Innovation in Practice

As a way to reframe problems, ideate solutions, and iterate toward better answers, design thinking is already well established in the commercial world. Her books include Solving Problems with Design Thinking (2013), Designing for Growth (2011), and The Designing for Growth Field Book (2013), all from Columbia University Press.

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Spigit Webinar: Embedding Innovation into Company DNA, Featuring Cambia Health

Planview

Since adding Spigit to their arsenal in 2011, Cambia has played an integral role in expanding awareness surrounding patient preferences and end-of-life care, issued $1.8 Since adding Spigit to their arsenal in 2011, Cambia has played an integral role in expanding awareness surrounding patient preferences and end-of-life care, issued $1.8

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How much is innovation costing your organization?

Innovation 360 Group

Our research suggests that most organizations have challenges in one of more of the four stages of innovation – i.e., ideation, selection, development and commercialization – often relating to gating and decisioning efforts as they move through the four stages. Penker (2008-2011).

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How Swiss Post’s Partnership with Qmarkets Achieved Award-Winning Results

Qmarkets

Lorenz Wyss, head of ideation at Swiss Post and the recent recipient of a prestigious international idea management award, talks about the major transformation efforts the 60,000-strong company has undertaken, and how Qmarkets’ innovation platform has helped manage and guide the process. . LW: We offer monetary awards and online recognition.

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The Creative Process And How Idea Management Solutions Fit In

Qmarkets

The ideation part, the creative process itself, starts with an inception for a problem or a question which is an unsolved tension that wants to be solved. Too little and too much pressure, wrong goals and thoughts and especially the wrong innovation culture can block this process. And there is good news for everybody. Very simple.