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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

In 2014 Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion, and it is now on target to hit one billion active users by the end of 2015. Both of these examples shows how crucial an idea management platform can be in the pursuit of success. However they are not the only company to have fallen into this trap, with Microsoft, Yahoo!,

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Fostering Innovation with Technological Solutions – Part 2

Wazoku

Apollo stimulated many areas of technology, leading to over 1,800 spinoff products as of 2015. Innovation and Idea management platforms. Also known as Idea management, or ideation management, software structures the process of gathering insight on products, then organizing and managing those ideas for improvement or development.

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Diamonds in the Rough – How To Discover More Innovative Business Ideas For Your Enterprise

Qmarkets

However, many companies are slow to recognise just how much of a valuable resource their employees or external stakeholders are when it comes to generating potentially ground-breaking innovative business ideas. In this article, we'll look at how companies can overcome ideation hurdles and generate more value for their business.

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Seven Essentials of an Effective Innovation Project Manager

Gregg Fraley

It’s about managing the front end cycle. When you review your innovation progress in December 2015 you won’t regret it. That’s important momentum-preserving work. If you’re treading water with regard to innovation, why not bring in a strategic resource?

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Overcoming the barriers to innovation in the legal sector

Idea Drop

In 2015, only 28 per cent of in-house legal clients surveyed for the Best Legal Adviser Report said innovation in their law firms was important whereas in 2016 this rose hugely to 62 per cent.” With innovation comes disruptive change and innovators will inevitably face a myriad of dismissals in pursuit of an ideation strategy.

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Crowdsourcing with the Competition: Rewarding Venture or Precarious Proposition?

Qmarkets

Tesla and Toyota for example opened their patent books to the competition back in 2015 to help accelerate innovation around fuel cells. Already used by leading organizations such as Total, Nestle, and more, it allows you to create a full-scale idea management system for engaging users who are external to your company.

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Game Changers: How Citizen Science and Gamification Are Transforming the Business World

Qmarkets

They also want to glean potentially groundbreaking ideas from external thinkers, but don’t want to open their innovation workshops to unreliable or mavericks whose ideas could prove disastrous. A good example of this is the HENRi@Nestle project , which is driven by Qmarkets’ cutting-edge idea management system.