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Successful Innovation Program Highlights the Value of Intrapreneurship

IdeaScale

There may have been a time when people with characteristics of intrapreneurs were discouraged or outright forbidden to innovate, even within their areas of responsibility. Not only are businesses embracing innovation more wholeheartedly, but the innovation team is also fast becoming a standard feature of many workplaces.

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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. JUMP stands for J oin the discussion, U nveil innovation, M otivate transformation, P romote technology-to-market. National Cancer Institute—Best Innovation.

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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. Getting the numbers right is crucial.

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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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Intrapreneurship Chicago 2016

Gregg Fraley

So, you may be surprised when I bend over backwards to promote Intrapreneurship Chicago 2016. Chicago area innovators and intrapreneurs, take note. 90% of the conference attendees will be real, honest-to-goodness innovators at large organizations. Craig Wirkus , Innovation Program Manager, Cisco.

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Lessons Learned About Innovation Communications from the City of Calgary

IdeaScale

If you’ve been following IdeaScale’s Innovation Management Awards , you know that this year saw some really thrilling innovation come from some unexpected places. 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.

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LIVE WEBINAR: 3 Pros Tell You How to Strike Innovation Gold in 2016

Planview

If your New Year’s resolutions include having an enterprise-grade innovation program that operates like a well-oiled results machine, then we sure have the webinar for you. First up: Dr. Norman Lewis of PwC, who leads the charge for the One Innovation Programme. The panelists’ predictions for innovation in 2016.