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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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2016, The Year of Machine Learning

Yet2

The talented project team in our Europe office have put together a brief article around the kinds of work we have been engaged in throughout 2016, and we are keen to get your feedback around parallels between our work and your needs.

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Lessons Learned About Innovation Communications from the City of Calgary

IdeaScale

In this case, the City of Calgary was a leader in generating engagement with their innovation program. Well, when myCityInnovation launched in May of 2016, Calgary didn’t just send out an email blast and call it good. This is perhaps the most important engagement tactic you can use: responsiveness. But how did they do it?

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Election 2016: Do We Need to Change Our Process?

IdeaScale

However you felt about the results of the 2016 election, one thing is clear: our nation is still demonstrating a fierce divide. It was a popular suggestion (particularly among the civically engaged) and on November 8 th , Californians voted in favor of Prop 54 (64.9% The post Election 2016: Do We Need to Change Our Process?

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Forget Best Practice, Think Always Of Learning Next Practice

Paul Hobcraft

We are all presently learning a new practice. We need to ditch much of the endeavors that make up a legacy of past practice, and think forward, to which the term next practice becomes the learning spot. Moving from “Best Practice” to “Next Practice”.

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Elevate the Customer Experience with Idea Management Software

IdeaScale

Company leaders previously learned about what customers wanted through traditional means such as surveys and focus groups. Now they are turning to actual customer interactions using idea management which allows the exchange of ideas using a format that results in personal engagement. Success through Customer Involvem ent.

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A Look Back at the Innovation Management Awards

IdeaScale

We’ve honored a variety of organizations and companies in the past and we hope that we have just as much to learn this year. Learn more about any of these stories (2013 – 2016) by following the links in their summaries: 2013 : The Cerebral Palsy Alliance. 2016: City of Calgary. Crowdsourcing a winning ballot measure!