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How Effective is Open Innovation?

100%Open

For example, this month’s tool in the spotlight is 100%Open Innovation Metrics. Many organisations now have the opportunity to look back at their open innovation programmes with an appraising eye. With some evidence behind them, they are weighing up the effectiveness of being open. How open is your organisation ?

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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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Open Innovation: A critical success factor when you build your innovation journey

IdeaScale

However, there are some proven measures with high impact on revenue growth, cost and time savings and improved effects on customer satisfaction – one of them Open Innovation (also known as crowdsourcing). Check this out: Silicon Valley meets Europe – Innovation Tour. Want to learn more?

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5 Ways to Unlock Your Open Innovation Ecosystem

100%Open

Many of the world’s most successful companies and organisations are building open innovation platforms and communities and repositioning their brands as part of a global innovation network. And lastly don’t be fooled into thinking that open innovation ecosystems are about getting something for nothing.

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10 Do’s & Don’ts for Open Innovation Competitions

100%Open

We were asked recently by a new client what our top 10 Do’s and Don’ts are for running open innovation competitions, based on our experience including the UBS Future of Finance Challenge , Unilever Foundry Ideas Challenge , Colombia CO4 Open Innovation Competition , and Ordnance Survey GeoVation Challenge.

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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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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.