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A Look Back at Crowdsourced Innovation in 2020

IdeaScale

Data gathered from IdeaScale’s innovation communities provides benchmarks and insights for innovators creating new crowdsourced innovation programs. Which stages will prove most intrinsic to program success? What more can they learn from IdeaScale’s network of innovators? What the Numbers Tell Us.

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Five Top Challenges for Innovation Managers and How to Address Them

IdeaScale

Innovation is the art of finding and overcoming challenges. Yet sometimes the challenges will find you as you work on your innovation strategy. Here are some of the key challenges for innovation programs across the business world in 2020.

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Catch Up on IdeaNation 2019 Interviews in the New Year

IdeaScale

Want to catch up on any 2019 IdeaNation podcasts you may have missed before the first month of 2020 flies by? Each year, IdeaScale meets with innovators from all over the globe who gather to share best practices on the management and delivery of ideas. IdeaScale: Calculating ROI for Your Open Innovation Program Workshop.

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Your Innovation Program Recipe for Success: The Three Essential Ingredients

Qmarkets

2020 was not what we expected, but nevertheless the old adage ‘out of adversity comes opportunity’ has never been more apt. The enormous pressure of the pandemic has caused irrevocable change, forcing organizations to adapt and innovate to survive.

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2021 IdeaScale Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

One of the largest employee-owned companies in North America, Graybar offers wholesale electrical, communication, and data networking products and has always thrived on people-first innovation. To that end, the company launched the NEXT Innovation Program, a name chosen from employee feedback.

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How Government Innovation Promises to Help Communities Fight Wildfires

IdeaScale

Firefighting agencies are responding with computer modeling, advanced topographic mapping, new fire management techniques, sensors, mobile monitors, infrastructure upgrades, and new government innovation programs. According to a Congressional report , over 17,000 structures burned across ten million acres during 59 fires in 2020 alone.

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IM Award Lessons: Improving Customer Success Through Innovation

IdeaScale

We’ve been working over the past few years about how to structure our global innovation strategy and our global innovation program and our large diverse network presents us with a lot of opportunities to do that, but it also creates some pretty unique challenges that IdeaScale has been essential in helping us navigate.