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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? You are measuring website traffic, video views, innovation team sign-ups, etc. When it comes to measuring the success of your innovation program, engagement in the real world and observed behavior change are primary. Getting the numbers right is crucial.

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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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5 Ways to Fail at Innovation

Imaginatik

Yet, within corporations, innovation programs are fragile things. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Innovation programs thrive on processes and metrics that don’t mesh easily with the core. For corporate innovators, risk lies around every corner.

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Planbox Acquires Imaginatik Creating an Agile Innovation Powerhouse

Imaginatik

Since the acquisition and merger of BrainBank Software and Planbox in November 2015, Planbox has transformed the innovation management landscape. Planbox was quickly recognized as a Leader by Forrester in the Innovation Management Wave Report in 2016. To learn more, visit: www.planbox.com and unleash your innovation potential.

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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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Invest in Innovation Skill Building

Gregg Fraley

Invest in Your Innovation Capacity. I thought by this year in history (2016) everyone in the business world would have a clue as to how to do ideation (aka brainstorming) properly. To be positive: There is a Huge Opportunity to Improve and Get Near Term Results with innovation training. Wow, not even close.

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Towards a New Language of Value - from the perspective of business ecosystems

Imaginatik

And what are the currency bundles – e.g., the different types of value – being created through the innovation programs? In short, what *are* the execution implications of our program in the ecosystem in which we are embedded? The Eurozone project would splinter back to national boundaries – or flags.