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Ideating at Enexis – Driving Operational Innovation in Dutch Energy Sector

Qmarkets

Yet the company has managed to generate hundreds of new ideas each year since 2014, resulting in millions in cost-saving and improved employee safety. 1,200 ideas have been submitted since September 2014, and we’ve received 7,300 comments and 9,400 total votes. The ideas all vary in impact, size, and scale.

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Enexis Interview: Navigating Operational Innovation in an Environment Ripe for Innovation Stagnation

Qmarkets

Yet the company have managed to implement up to 300 new ideas a year resulting in millions in cost saving since 2014. A Qmarkets’ customer since 2014, we sat down with Enexis to discuss more about their innovation initiatives, overcoming resistance to change, and what the future of innovation looks like for them.

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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Innovation and Bridging the Generational Divide

Idea to Value

While a structured, repeatable innovation process is critical to create and sustain innovation in a competitive, dog-eat-dog marketplace, it alone is not always sufficient to turn a great innovative idea into a profitable “on-the-store-shelves” reality. Innovation requires more than just idea generation.

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Ideating at Enexis – Driving Operational Innovation in Dutch Energy Sector

Qmarkets

Yet the company have managed to implement up to 300 new ideas a year resulting in millions in cost-saving since 2014. A Qmarkets’ customer since 2014, we sat down with Enexis to discuss more about their innovation initiatives, overcoming resistance to change, and what the future of innovation looks like for them.

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What is idea management and why is it important for any business

hackerearth

Visualize this: You continuously get incredibly innovative ideas from your own workforce. Ideas that, if materialized into innovative products or services, align with your organization’s goals, increasing revenues and keeping competition at bay. What are the phases of idea management? Idea genesis and gathering.

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What is Total Innovation Management? Achieving Excellence from Idea Generation to Implementation

Qmarkets

Amplify Idea Generation You can’t address the question ‘what is total idea management’ without emphasising the importance of crowdsourcing ideas. It’s important to remember that often the best ideas emerge from the most unlikely sources. Leveraging the competitive spirit of employees can help support this culture.

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Gartner Research Insights: 5 Innovation Hacks to Boost your Digital Return

Qmarkets

Perhaps most importantly, you should also add process metrics: Average time from idea generation to first revenue, number of ideas submitted by employees/month, number of opportunities moving on to the next stage, types of innovation tried (internal, external, hackathons, etc.). . This is what many large organizations do.

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