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Lessons Learned About Innovation Communications from the City of Calgary

IdeaScale

In fact, government is sometimes seen as one of the least innovative industries , but some of our best stories this year came from the government. In this case, the City of Calgary was a leader in generating engagement with their innovation program. But how did they do it?

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Announcing the 2016 Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

Having received some fantastic entries, we have officially chosen and are extremely pleased to share our winners for the 2016 Innovation Management Awards. City of Calgary—Best Engagement Strategy. In order to increase engagement, the City launched a multi-channel campaign to inform employees and get them involved.

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Rating Your Innovation Program: Vanity Metrics vs. True Impact

Moves the Needle

How do you measure the success of your innovation program? In my experience guiding corporate innovators, I have found that even the most well-intentioned teams aren’t evaluating true impact—instead, they deliver vanity metrics, which offer, at best, a measurement of partial engagement. Where do you go from here?

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Grow Like Flo in 2016: Taking the Lead from Progressive’s Crowdsourced Innovation Program

Planview

Here are a few things the team at Progressive is really, really good at: (1) creating one of the most iconic brand mascots to ever hit the insurance scene; (2) leading the charge in industry breakthroughs, like data-driven driving services; (3) developing awesome new products, services, and processes with crowdsourced innovation.

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4 Great Innovations that Started as Employee Ideas

IdeaScale

This tenet underpins most of crowdsourcing and all open innovation programs. Vendasta Technologies is a SaaS company and their new product, WebsitePro emerged during a hackathon in 2016. The idea for IdeaScale functions on a simple premise: good ideas can come from anywhere. A Credit Offering for SMBs.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

In the course of this first month of 2016, I was asked a couple of times what my prospects are for the year ahead when it comes to key innovtion issues. Hence, I gave it some thought, starting by revisting an earlier reflection: Beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come.

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Top 10 Innovation Links for the Week of 1.8.16

Planview

Welcome to the first 2016 weekly roundup of innovation links, where we feature a carefully curated selection of our favorite content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. A New Blueprint for Collaborative Innovation. Global Gamification Market 2015-2016. TEDx Berkeley: The Art of Innovation.