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The 2017 Innovation Management Awards Are Open

IdeaScale

For the fifth year in a row, IdeaScale is hosting the Innovation Management Awards. Particularly if that story demonstrates innovation thought leadership when it comes to engagement strategies, innovation processes, or idea implementation. The Innovation Management Awards, Open Nation, online webinars with customer guest speakers, all are efforts towards building a community that supports one another cooperatively as we collect and manage ideas.

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Last Chance to Submit to the 2017 Innovation Management Awards

IdeaScale

The deadline of the annual Innovation Management Awards is now upon us and we are still accepting submissions. Just a reminder about the three categories that we want to hear about: Best Engagement Strategy. Every year, we ask our customers what topics they would most like to see discussed at IdeaScale’s Open Nation and almost every year, our customers ask to hear about new and creative strategies to engage the crowd in the ideation and innovation process.

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Six best innovation practices to engage Millennials and Gen Zers

Exago

The post Six best innovation practices to engage Millennials and Gen Zers appeared first on Exago. Blog Insights business transformation employees engagement incremental-innovation innovation management innovation-resultsAll businesses are created first by ideas. Then, once you are in business, you need new thinking for design, engineering, radical improvement, manufacturing, marketing, advertising, problem-solving, customer retention, etc.

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Why is innovation management a powerful tool to engage Generations Y and Z

Exago

Large companies looking for creative and transforming ideas need to leverage innovation management to conquer employees, particularly Gen Zers and Millennials. The post Why is innovation management a powerful tool to engage Generations Y and Z appeared first on Exago. Blog Insights business transformation collective intelligence communication employee engagement engagement incremental-innovation initiative-success

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Unless management understands what its existing measurement practices are and improves. Better employee engagement and cross-functional collaboration spawn better ideas. Source: 2017 Report: The Corporate Innovation Imperative (Crowd Companies) 66.0 % Greater.

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Managing Expectations in Innovation Management

IdeaScale

One of the most effective ways to engage your crowd is to demonstrate commitment to turning their ideas into real value and impact. However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”. We can address these concerns head-on by setting and managing expectations. Engage stakeholders and experts in the process from start to finish.

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3 Tactics that Make Innovation Management Easier

IdeaScale

IdeaScale learns from all its best customers, but in our latest interview with Redwood Credit Union we learned three things that make innovation management easier: Pre-Populate Your Campaign. Awards were given not just for the ideas that delivered the most impact (the voyager award) but also for the groups with the most engaged participants (the TME Award) and both were highly coveted by the program participants.

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How to mobilise the right audiences for innovation challenges

Exago

Blog Insights challenges communication employees engagement gamification idea management software incremental-innovationWhen putting your innovation challenges together, make sure you have a complete plan with clearly defined, targeted audiences, across cultures and business units, as well as key messages, frequency expectations, a communication and incentives strategy. The post How to mobilise the right audiences for innovation challenges appeared first on www.exago.com.

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Managing Expectations in Innovation Management: Part II

IdeaScale

One of the most effective ways to engage the crowd is to demonstrate commitment to turning their ideas into real value and impact. However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”. We can address these concerns head-on by setting and managing expectations.

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The 3 Most Common Questions about Idea Management Software

IdeaScale

In 2017 I’m talking through the same concerns as I was 6 years ago. Here are the three most common questions about idea management software that I encounter each day: 1. Well for a number of reasons: Security – We know that in 2017 cybersecurity is a top concern of CEO’s (and IT alike). Representing IdeaScale in many of those SSO engagements is our Senior Developer, Christoph Schebel. “We I’ve been with IdeaScale since 2011.

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Top 7 Business Innovation Trends for 2017

Qmarkets

Plus, they can utilize suitable B2B software solutions such as CRM, project management, collaboration software etc. In this article, we look at a few key business trends of 2017 in different sectors and how they are redefining technology and business strategy this year. They are utilizing omnichannel and digital communication mediums to engage their customers and offer them what they want. Companies need to use fresh thinking and innovation to boost their business growth.

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Top 5 Advantages of Crowdsourced Innovation Management

IdeaScale

There was little interaction with employees since management expected them to do their job based on practices established by the management themselves. This is what crowdsourced innovation management is about and below are the 5 advantages of crowdsourced innovation management. You know that crowdsourced innovation management boosts your employee’s morale and sense of worth in the company.

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Connecting Innovation is the New Order of Play

Paul Hobcraft

A more opening out, forming more connections into customers, engaging with them. To manage and orchestrate means to lead, to frame, conduct,, direct and set the tempo, that is constantly changing and for that we need to be far more adaptive and fluid in our asset deployment. It is the “combination effect” that is evolving at increasing speed and complexity for connecting the parts up in a full innovation engagement.

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Five key dimensions for building your innovation challenges

Exago

In the process of setting objectives for your business goals, you should always think SMART – as management guru Peter Drucker applies this expression. Blog Insights challenges communication engagement idea management software incremental-innovation innovation-tipsTo make your objectives easy to understand and monitor, they need to be specific, measurable, assignable, realistic and time-related. This mnemonic can be useful when establishing innovation challenges.

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Employee engagement and innovation

hackerearth

Researchers across the world agree that engaged employees drive the culture of true innovation in successful companies. What is employee engagement? Even leaders who do value their employees frequently mistake employee satisfaction for employee engagement. Giving your employees free food coupons, spa membership, or other such perks can sure make them happy, but these don’t translate into meaningful engagement. Gallup employee engagement survey results.

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Employee Engagement Propels Innovation

Planview

However, for this culture to exist, employee engagement is imperative. s 2017 State of the Global Workplace Report, 85 percent of employees are disengaged on the job, which is costing companies $7 trillion in lost productivity, turnover, poor customer experience, absenteeism, and lower profitability. A culture of innovation relies on employee engagement and a shared vision for a company’s success. Watch the full video: Talking Employee Engagement with Spigit Clients.

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Technology Scouting Excellence 2017 Speaker Lineup

eZassi

Today we are excited to announce the speaker lineup for the Technology Scouting 2017 conference. The conference date is October 18 – 19, 2017 and will be held in Boston, MA. Christie Funk, Langley Project Manager for the Regional Economic Development Program. Manager / Principal Scientist, Open Innovation. Director / Manager, Open Innovation. Olaf Gruess, Disruptive Technology Manager & Global Connector. Director / Manager, Open Innovation.

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Innovation Management Award Spotlight: City of Calgary

IdeaScale

At IdeaScale, we host the annual innovation management awards in order to honor the accomplishments of some truly groundbreaking organizations, but also so that some of our smartest clients can share their best practices with others. The post Innovation Management Award Spotlight: City of Calgary appeared first on IdeaScale. Case Study city of calgary engagement interview

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Secure Innovation Management for US Government-Wide Mandates

IdeaScale

In 2011 the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a government-wide cloud security memo and guidance policy known as the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). Here are just a few examples of how secure innovation management is being used today: For instance, staff contributing ideas and anonymous feedback to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Reimagine HHS process and how it will impact the HHS, NIH, and FDA workforces.

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

IdeaScale

While you can still have experts in the R&D department, you can also engage employees and external groups to solve any problem. Employee Op en Innovation: Princess Cruises gathers thousands of new ideas, engages more than four thousand employees, and manages it all through one innovation team. Once everyone is on board, consider implementing systems that help you prepare for the complexity of idea management.

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Expert Interview Series: B.J. Shannon of TINYpulse About the Role Employee Feedback Plays in Idea Management

IdeaScale

We turned traditional engagement surveys and performance reviews on their heads and made them TINYer and more regular. How important is it to engage the entire organization? Simply showing all employees that their opinions are valued and wanted has beneficial impacts on morale and engagement. If a business owner or manager were to say to you, “I don’t need a software program to spot a burned-out employee,” how would you respond?

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Best Practice: Conduct crowd engagement and outreach with an eye toward diversity

IdeaScale

A software platform, like IdeaScale, can help you manage, filter and refine these myriad solutions so that you can efficiently select and implement top solutions. . Use messaging, visuals, and language specifically tailored to specifically to each target group you wish to engage. A person is only motivated by a specific reward if they find value in that reward, so keep in mind that the reward you select will determine the kind of people who engage.

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Jumping to a fresh cycle of innovation design

Paul Hobcraft

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. We need to get far more comfortable with working in ecosystems, managed in platform designs to work more collaboratively. Innovation management itself must become “fluid” in design, in adaptation so the right approach is to be constantly ‘adaptive’ and put together what is needed to tackle the challenge that needs resolution.

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FEI Europe 2017 Recap – Denise Fletcher, CIO

eZassi

Peter Meier , the Founder and Managing Director at Orokoko GmBH, gave a keynote speech titled: “Is Innovating Easy? Engaging in “invisible marketing” will rely heavily on the notion of industry convergence. The post FEI Europe 2017 Recap – Denise Fletcher, CIO appeared first on eZassi. FEI Europe – Adapt, disrupt, innovate.

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

The important aspect of the theory which most discussions ignore though is that while it is happening, management at the established companies think they’re making the right decision to let the new companies take over the low-end of the market. Since company leaders have often been taught that increasing profitability is the holy grail of management, it makes perfect sense to allow someone else to take over the low market. Suggested reading: 4 – Portfolio Management.

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3 Tactics that Make Innovation Management Easier

IdeaScale

IdeaScale learns from all its best customers, but in our latest interview with Redwood Credit Union we learned three things that make innovation management easier: Pre-Populate Your Campaign. Awards were given not just for the ideas that delivered the most impact (the voyager award) but also for the groups with the most engaged participants (the TME Award) and both were highly coveted by the program participants.

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The Essential Connection Between Strategy and Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

A good strategy, well outlined should encourage innovation and gain engagement but it can equally determine how we break down our imposed boundaries by its strategic intent, to encourage exploring and extending on what we know into the what we need to know. This suggests that there are multiple failure points within the management of innovation. It becomes the “living” innovation document to refer too, engagement with (and improve).

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How to create a culture of collaborative innovation in younger generations

Exago

Blog Insights engagement idea management software initiative-success innovation management purposeMillennials and Generation Z are often disconnected from the strategic vision of a big organisation because they cannot see any links between their everyday work and the company's business objectives. Being able to align an individual's everyday work and goals clearly with the organisation’s strategy gets people to think in new ways and imagine new possibilities.

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Harnessing Good Thoughts: Innovation Management as a Volunteer Opportunity

IdeaScale

There’s just too much to do, too many volunteers to manage…. What if it wasn’t any harder than managing any other volunteer opportunity? This is where managed collaborative innovation comes in. Like any other volunteer opportunity, success is going to depend on how well you set it up, manage it, and engage with your volunteers. The post Harnessing Good Thoughts: Innovation Management as a Volunteer Opportunity appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Loyalty is no longer enough to both employers and the workforce

Exago

How do companies manage their corporate culture to increase employee engagement? What tools and methods are used to keep employees motivated and engaged? Blog business transformation engagementHow does the fourth industrial revolution, blurring the real and technological worlds, affect companies and the way they do business? The post Loyalty is no longer enough to both employers and the workforce appeared first on Exago.

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Platform models are the new order of our innovating business need

Paul Hobcraft

When any form of digitization is introduced, the expectations of the customer rise exponentially, in the expectancies of service, engagement, response, and support – this is increasingly expected to be available 24×7. Today the industrial company, selling traditional tangible goods, is expected to engage, to listen, adapt and offer ever-increasing tailored services to our personal needs. Credit: Marshall Van Alstyne, Professor at Boston University.

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FEI Europe 2017 Recap – Denise Fletcher, CIO

eZassi

Peter Meier , the Founder and Managing Director at Orokoko GmBH, gave a keynote speech titled: “Is Innovating Easy? Engaging in “invisible marketing” will rely heavily on the notion of industry convergence. The post FEI Europe 2017 Recap – Denise Fletcher, CIO appeared first on eZassi. FEI Europe – Adapt, disrupt, innovate.

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As we enter 2018 we will need Knowledge Graphs

Paul Hobcraft

They had invited me to their Siemens Innovation Day in mid-December 2017. They can improve our domain knowledge, improve our common sense by linking the relevant context and through a decent labeling of this, we can manage far more complex schemas. Neptune supports open source and open standard APIs to allow you to quickly leverage existing information resources, to build your knowledge graphs and host them on a fully managed service.

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A Vital Change Management Strategy Role: Sharing an Innovation Vocabulary

BrainZooming

What are all the change management strategy roles a change agent plays? As we worked on strategic thinking exercises to explore the company’s future vision and user experience, the change management strategy vocabulary the group used was conventional, unemotional, and lacking innovative thinking. Innovation Vocabulary and Change Management Strategy. Create the Vision to Align and Engage Your Team!

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Exploring frameworks and methods you need to know as an Innovator

Paul Hobcraft

Partly it seems executives don’t engage with their brand or business in the way that their customers do” The difference between DMAIC, DMADV, and Innovation Management (tackling a critical part of Six Sigma). It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers. “We all are caught up in handling and understanding different management tools.

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The limitations, criticisms and new pathways for Design Thinking – Part two

Paul Hobcraft

The ability to connect, to manage this is the ‘art’ of the design thinker leading the facilitation process. Advancing innovation Molecules Shifting dynamics in innovation design thinking Designing innovation change designing innovation differently designing innovation outcomes divergence and convergence for innovation ideal process for innovation process engagement Innovation engagement process redesigning innovation thinking about innovation change

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Creating the Industrial Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

This deserves a dedicated post on what I consequently learned, not through Siemens, but in a conference that Siemens presented at, in November 2017. Siemens needs to think deeper about the Siemens Innovation Ecosystem and its management, in my opinion. Technology offers us a whole different way of managing our daily lives. This requires a comprehensive ecosystem management. It is capturing and engaging but it needs a greater attention, time and value correlation.

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Solving the Problems of Government CIO Citizen Engagement

Qmarkets

However, in the world of governance, the move towards digital engagement for the purpose of civic innovation has been much more gradual. the concept of utilizing digital transformation platforms to encourage citizen engagement is one that is being greeted joyously by the public in general. However actually engaging citizens with these initiatives has been another challenge altogether. Providing a quality citizen experience is key to any successful citizen engagement program.

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A Simple Guide to Building an Engaged Team

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: We don’t need tons of research to tell us the importance of having employees who are engaged in their work. The result of an engaged set of employees shows up when an employee goes beyond his call of duty to serve a customer or when a team gets formed organically to address some specific issue that has cropped up during the day. It is no surprise either when that having such an engaged workforce can and does become a true competitive advantage.

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Relating to the New Innovation Era

Paul Hobcraft

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. We hang on to all the legacies built up around the existing innovation system , we manage innovation in efficient and predictable ways. We need to apply what we need to get the “job” done and this becomes specific to the challenge and its complexity and engagement needs.

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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 this case, the City of Calgary was a leader in generating engagement with their innovation program. This is perhaps the most important engagement tactic you can use: responsiveness. Case Study city of calgary crowdsourcing employee engagement engagement

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Innovation Management Day 1: How to Launch Your Program

HYPE Innovation

The three reasons our clients mention most frequently are: driving more innovation, reducing costs, and increasing employee engagement. In the above webinar, HYPE's Colin Nelson looks at how companies launch their innovation programs, and the key considerations to have in mind. Here's a brief walkthrough of some of the main talking points. Firstly, why do organizations implement innovation programs?

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We are pushing away from the old innovating core

Paul Hobcraft

Delivering this changing message becomes simply a cause in itself as so many are failing to recognize it as radically different from their past innovation management. I have written about the new innovation era in 2017 made up of higher levels of needed collaboration, where platforms, ecosystems and customer experience understanding become increasingly central.