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BIG Ideas: How ICL Built a Billion Dollar Innovation Accelerator

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Nearly a century ago, a Siberian adventurer, engineer, and businessman named Moshe Novomeysky secured permission to establish a mining facility in the mineral-rich waters of the Dead Sea. Powered by Qmarkets’ idea management solution Q-ideate , BIG gathers and implements ideas sourced by over 13,000 ICL employees around the world.

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Innovation SOP: Using Hackathons to Advance Digital Transformation

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The condensed environment of different people and departments, giving them free reign to their thoughts and abilities is a fertile ground for not just thinking up innovative ideas or products, but converting them into reality. Sweeney, S., Bruce, F., & Baxter, S.

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How Israel’s Oldest Bank Is Engaging Employees to Become a Leader in Banking Innovation

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In 2013, Bank Leumi embarked on a journey to make innovation one of its prime strategic goals. In order to achieve this goal, the Bank undertook an initiative to change their corporate culture, so every employee would see innovation as part of their daily work; an aim they should constantly aspire to.

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Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Digital and Offline Innovation

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Many companies, such as Netflix, Syntel, Cognizant, Facebook, Google, SendGrid, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Pegasystems and Kareo hold internal innovation hackathons to promote new product innovation by their engineering staff. Qmarket’s Q-hack platform is the perfect support platform for company idea hackathons.

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Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Digital and Offline Innovation

Qmarkets

Many companies, such as Netflix, Syntel, Cognizant, Facebook, Google, SendGrid, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Pegasystems and Kareo hold internal innovation hackathons to promote new product innovation by their engineering staff. Qmarket’s Q-hack platform is the perfect support platform for company idea hackathons.

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Innovation from the Innovation Nation – Israel

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Most of the time, the people I meet are unsurprised to discover that Qmarkets is based in Israel, however every now and then I will encounter a person or business who is hesitant to work with a company that is located in the middle-east, due to perceived political/economical risks and sometimes even a cultural bias. A Competitive Culture.

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Innovation from the Innovation Nation – Israel

Qmarkets

Most of the time, the people I meet are unsurprised to discover that Qmarkets is based in Israel, however every now and then I will encounter a person or business who is hesitant to work with a company that is located in the middle-east, due to perceived political/economical risks and sometimes even a cultural bias. A Competitive Culture.