Paul Hobcraft

MAY 1, 2017

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. Collaborations across organizations can defray the cost; it limits risk but encourages experiment.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Crowdsourced innovation” —the process of inspiring, collecting, and accelerating ideas from the “crowd,” such as your employees, partners, and customers, at scale—has proven to be incredibly effective.

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Planview

JULY 22, 2016

We find that organizations that are committed to acting on ideas submitted through their crowdsourced innovation program see the best results and steady increases in employee engagement – as long as the results are communicated. . For example, instead of asking “how can we increase revenue or grow our business?”,

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Total Systems Services (TSYS) – a fintech giant with more than 13,000 employees worldwide – presents a great example of the results this kind of initiative can deliver. Changing entrenched ways of thinking – persuading tenured staff that implementing a bold new crowdsourcing approach can yield major results ?

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hackerearth

JUNE 8, 2017

A successful innovation program requires operational changes and cross-functional collaboration. The entire organization should be aware of the process and be able to spot where their idea is in the pipeline at any given point of time. The idea of crowdsourcing ideas and solutions has been around for centuries.

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

One key to Pfizer’s ability to generate impressive employee engagement – nearly 80% of its 90,000 employee workforce have participated across 200+ ideation challenges – has been its worldwide network of 250 employees, better known as champions. Key takeaway. Building buzz before hackathons and maintaining it well after the fact.

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

One key to Pfizer’s ability to generate impressive employee engagement – nearly 80% of its 90,000 employee workforce have participated across 200+ ideation challenges – has been its worldwide network of 250 employees, better known as champions. Key takeaway. Building buzz before hackathons and maintaining it well after the fact.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Take Apple's visionary leader Steve Jobs - often regarded as the prototypical innovation leader - as an example. A thorough risk management audit, for example, can help identify a business's blind spots. Culp offers venture capital firms as examples of organizations worth learning from. Skill Five: Putting Action First.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Its rapid expansion from a small, family-run wholesale goods business in 1928 into a multinational conglomerate with 30,000 employees, can be attributed in part to the creative – and ingenious – ways it has crowdsourced ideas from employees. Qmarkets: That’s awesome!

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Take Apple's visionary leader Steve Jobs - often regarded as the prototypical innovation leader - as an example. A thorough risk management audit, for example, can help identify a business's blind spots. Culp offers venture capital firms as examples of organizations worth learning from. Skill Five: Putting Action First.

Leadership 49

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Planview

JANUARY 23, 2018

Here’s a quick example. If a company runs an ideation challenge and receives 1,000 ideas from 200 active participants but only selects 100 ideas for further development, their ideation rate would be 0.5 (100/200 More ideas are being explored and implemented – the most critical part of creating a culture of innovation.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

CROWDSOURCING. The CIO's interviewed by Garther say that you can start testing out the crowdsourcing technique internally with a few non-essential ideas. For example, one company saw they were making most of their sales from their traditional products, so they focused on that. Here is a brief look at these key techniques.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

CROWDSOURCING. The CIO's interviewed by Garther say that you can start testing out the crowdsourcing technique internally with a few non-essential ideas. For example, one company saw they were making most of their sales from their traditional products, so they focused on that. Here is a brief look at these key techniques.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Before we started using Qmarkets we used to incentivize participation by offering 10% of savings generated by an Idea. But we saw that people tend to get very protective over their ideas and kept their ideas to themselves, which also resulted in less collaboration.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

For example, here’s an interesting break up according to Larry Keeley. Google and 3M are good examples of this model. Studies show that for open innovation (OI) which uses both internal and external ideas, an informal organizational structure is better. **In Henry Ford’s assembly line innovation is a groundbreaking example.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

For example, here’s an interesting break up according to Larry Keeley. Google and 3M are good examples of this model. Studies show that for open innovation (OI) which uses both internal and external ideas, an informal organizational structure is better. **In Henry Ford’s assembly line innovation is a groundbreaking example.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

In the discovery phase, innovation experts can help with web scouting, market research, ethnographic studies, technology or design research, workshops, boot camps, empathy maps, and journey mapping to generate ideas. Example of innovation management software—Sprint. Feasibility analysis and modelling come into play here.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 7, 2020

Establish a ‘Big Picture’ Strategy Following the rise of the internet in the 1990s, employees could contribute and collaborate around innovation projects with unparalleled ease. A great example of a company leveraging TIM for a big-picture objective is offered by Philip Morris International. For example, in 2014 the U.S

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Before we started using Qmarkets we used to incentivize participation by offering 10% of savings generated by an Idea. But we saw that people tend to get very protective over their ideas and kept their ideas to themselves, which also resulted in less collaboration.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

It is hard to put it any better—but there is rarely innovation that hasn’t its origins in collaboration. Innovation and collaboration aren’t separate. Collaboration drives innovation and value creation, thereby helping businesses create wealth. Why collaborate. Distinct advantages of collaboration. Diverse ideas.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Before we started using Qmarkets we used to incentivize participation by offering 10% of savings generated by an Idea. But we saw that people tend to get very protective over their ideas and kept their ideas to themselves, which also resulted in less collaboration.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the smart cities initiative could be what makes the difference. In Amsterdam, for example, over 500,000 households are connected to smart meters. At first glance, the term “smart government” appears to be oxymoronic. And no further explanation is needed.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 3, 2018

Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the Smart Cities initiative could be what makes the difference. In Amsterdam , for example, over 500,000 households are connected to smart meters. At first glance, the term “smart government” appears to be oxymoronic. And no further explanation is needed. Internal Engagement.

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Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The ‘license’ often include information about the collaborators, how the risks are shared, how the pofits are shared and to what extend the technology or information may or may not be altered or adapted. Route 4: Collaborative Innovation. Route 2: Co-patenting. Route 3: Spin-off. Route 5: Co-engineering. Weiblen, 2014 ).

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