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4 Great Innovations that Started as Employee Ideas

IdeaScale

This tenet underpins most of crowdsourcing and all open innovation programs. And if this marketer hadn’t shared their idea in a crowdsourcing community, the product team might never have found it. Vendasta Technologies is a SaaS company and their new product, WebsitePro emerged during a hackathon in 2016.

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Crowdsourcing with the Competition: Rewarding Venture or Precarious Proposition?

Qmarkets

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. In 2016, a small Detroit community illustrated this point beautifully : The city of Hamtramck left no money in the budget for road repairs, and residents were facing a bumpy year ahead. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”

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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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How the Israel Securities Authority is Engaging Employees to Boost Innovation

Qmarkets

YWE: 2016 was defined by us as the “Year of Creativity and Innovation” at the ISA, and administrators and senior staff were introduced to tools and brainstormed with on how to implement these tools into our ongoing work. Our project with Qmarkets was a natural continuation of this intensive year which we went through.

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Crowdsourcing with the Competition: Rewarding Venture or Precarious Proposition?

Qmarkets

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. In 2016, a small Detroit community illustrated this point beautifully : The city of Hamtramck left no money in the budget for road repairs, and residents were facing a bumpy year ahead. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”

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How Effective is Open Innovation?

100%Open

The three word business case for open innovation is Better Faster Cheaper , and we have helped organisations to put this to the test in recent projects. Is sponsor engagement or incentive more important? Is the money committed to running competitions, managing partnerships and venturing well spent?

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How Israel’s Oldest Bank Is Engaging Employees to Become a Leader in Banking Innovation

Qmarkets

Since deployment, the Bank has run ongoing idea challenges, engaging thousands of the bank's employees in online idea brainstorming to tackle a variety of the company's challenges. Ran: In November 2016, we implemented the system across the whole workforce of 10,000 employees.