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Election 2016: Do We Need to Change Our Process?

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However you felt about the results of the 2016 election, one thing is clear: our nation is still demonstrating a fierce divide. Innovate Your State ran the Challenge using IdeaScale ’s crowdsourcing platform. The post Election 2016: Do We Need to Change Our Process? appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Environmental, Social, and Governance Strategy in the Workplace

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Environmental, social and governance strategy (ESG) refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a company or business. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. trillion in U.S. Is this a challenge for you?

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Origin Story: How IdeaScale Grew from a Simple Idea to a Leading Idea Management Company

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This occurred in tandem with President Barack Obama’s Open Government Initiative. Hoehn wanted companies and government organizations to be able to gather, transform, and prioritize ideas through crowdsourcing. Government clients cited platform affordability and a high level of engagement as the reasons for early adoption.

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Announcing the 2016 Innovation Management Award Winners

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Having received some fantastic entries, we have officially chosen and are extremely pleased to share our winners for the 2016 Innovation Management Awards. The National Cancer Institute is the winner of Best Innovation for their Cancer Research Ideas campaign, in support of the Cancer Moonshot proposed by President Obama in January 2016.

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A Look Back at the Innovation Management Awards

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Learn more about any of these stories (2013 – 2016) by following the links in their summaries: 2013 : The Cerebral Palsy Alliance. Crowdsourcing a winning ballot measure! Connecting citizens in the global south to their governments. 2016: City of Calgary. Marriott Vacations Worldwide. 2015: Innovate Your State.

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Make America Innovate Again – Digital Transformation, Citizen Participation, and Government Efficiency

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As a general rule, we hold our governments to a higher standard than that which we hold private businesses and corporations to. Private sector businesses are expected to only look out for themselves, but the government is meant to look out for us. Or, for that matter, any government body at the local, state or national level.

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Citizen Science and the Future of Cancer Research

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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the federal government’s principal agency for cancer research and training. In 2016, The National Cancer Institute launched the Cancer Research Ideas crowdsourcing website to enable the research community and the public to submit ideas on how best to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.