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Open Innovation: Your Guide to Harnessing and Managing the Best Ideas

IdeaScale

Open innovation allows everyone to compete equally, whether their development budget is large or small. What is Open Innovation. Open innovation is a paradigm shift that assumes organizations can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas to determine as path to market and advance technology.

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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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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. The product was called Fundbox Fuse. .

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Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?

Paul Hobcraft

In most companies, we have small, dedicated innovation teams of five to 10 people trying to take on this Herculean task of growing a business through innovation. They are reliant on engaging others, focusing on their specialized areas to hand over their time to innovation. We are fragmenting much within innovation.

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What is Innovation in Business and How Can it Build Business Longevity?

Qmarkets

Accenture reveal the receipe behind portfolio growth with their 12 key rituals to governing innovation. Employee Engagement The benefits of employee engagement are no secret, especially to organizations who want to drive business success and longevity. What are the Various Approaches to Innovation in Business?

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What is Innovation in Business and How Can it Build Business Longevity?

Qmarkets

Organizations that develop strategies to innovate put themselves in a far greater position to generate revenue growth than those that don’t. Employee Engagement The benefits of employee engagement are no secret, especially to organizations who want to drive business success and longevity. 9 The result? Amazon Prime.

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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.