IdeaScale

APRIL 6, 2021

Crowdsourcing can influence innovation. Data gathered from IdeaScale’s innovation communities provides benchmarks and insights for innovators creating new crowdsourced innovation programs. What more can they learn from IdeaScale’s network of innovators? What sorts of results can they expect? ReviewScale.

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Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 29, 2015

As part of my role at the School of Innovation of Avans University of Applied Sciences, I was able to contribute to an infographic about the course program of the School of Innovation. It comprises the 6 skills of innovative leadership. Click the infographic to download a high-resolution image. Process thinking.

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Leadership Entrepreneurship Innovation System 59

IdeaScale

MARCH 6, 2019

Innovation may not change what police officers do, but it can improve how they do it. Many law enforcement agencies are turning to new technologies like body cameras and license plate readers, and as they choose and adopt technologies, they must also allot the necessary time so officers can learn how to use them.

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Innovation Management Management Software Innovation 189

BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. What to look for in a business collaboration? The collaborator brings something different (and complementary) to what we do and offer.

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Collaboration Strategy Strategy Creative Thinking 92

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose” Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. Does it make sense?

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Engagement System Innovation Design 206

Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ]. Analytical thinking alone does not produce innovation. These skills are often overlooked or underutilized by innovation and R&D teams. They thought they needed a new growth strategy.

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Learning Innovation Trends Innovation Programs 100

Yet2

JUNE 16, 2022

With the pace of scientific innovation accelerating so quickly, the topics always focus on cutting-edge technologies and devices, and never fail to provide ample opportunity for jaw-dropping reactions to cool, new science. Contact us to learn more. Seeking: Collaborative Robots (Cobots) for use in a complex laboratory environment.

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Trends Case Study Innovation Project 97

Idea to Value

JUNE 30, 2020

Innovation culture has long been one of the most challenging, and oft-discussed, topics in our conversations with business and innovation leaders. What is an innovation culture? The question we need start with is to actually define what an innovation culture is. Why is an innovative culture so important?

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Culture Innovation Leadership Examples 342

IdeaScale

MARCH 14, 2018

This year, Amway won the Innovation Management award for best innovation engagement strategy. So we asked Amway a few questions about their program and here’s what they had to say: IdeaScale : Why is innovation vital to your organization? IdeaScale : What are you most proud of in your innovation program?

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IdeaScale

MARCH 31, 2020

Medical professionals and businesses in multiple industries are learning how to use technology and innovation strategy during this pandemic to curtail the spread of such diseases. Existing Innovations. Numerous existing innovations are already being used to help fight Covid-19. Innovations on the Horizon.

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Artificial Inteligence Innovation Crowdsourcing Industry 173

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Companies that do this contribute to overall innovation program health by ensuring a healthy top of the funnel stocked with ideas and allies. Not every innovation program has developed the communications skill set necessary to engage a global workforce or customer base in sharing ideas, developing ideas, and collaborating.

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Engagement Innovation Programs Innovation Crowdsourcing 153

BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

I’ll admit it: my views on innovation strategy have been dramatically shaped by working in a Fortune 500 corporation. The size and scale of opportunities you pursue, even in a company that was not always all that innovative, oriented me to think a big team and significant dollars are vital for real innovation.

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Strategy Strategy Learning eBook 84

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

They take a long-term view of their staff and see innovation projects as an opportunity to stretch their employees’ capabilities and to help them achieve their aspirations. Depending on the scope of their ideas, innovators’ careers can be significantly shaped by this journey. The M entor Role in I nnovation . Gaining customer insights.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Project Technical Review 189

eZassi

AUGUST 14, 2017

Ideation Collaboration Software: Killing three or more birds with one software. We often find that our prospects and clients are amazed that our innovation software platform replaces or can replace what they need in an ideation collaboration software, killing three or more birds with one software.

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Software Collaboration Ideation System 45

IdeaScale

APRIL 11, 2019

Improve employee engagement and you build an environment that cultivates innovation. It is no surprise that engaged employees and the workplaces that encourage them are more likely to be innovative. Employee Engagement, Innovation Correlated. Is There a Culture of Innovation? Hence, innovation is less likely.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

IdeaScale recently announced the winners of our 2018 Innovation Management Awards. Queensland Police Service was recognized for Best Engagement Strategy, Covia won the award for Best Innovation Process, and the Transportation Research Board won for Best Innovation. Here’s what they learned. A Common Theme.

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Innovation Management Software Review Management Software 113

IdeaScale

APRIL 24, 2019

Before you can assess your organization’s innovation maturity, you have to ask and answer the question, “What does innovation mean to us?”. Unless your organization has deliberately built a culture of innovation throughout, answers to that question will vary – perhaps widely – among those you ask.

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How To Innovation Culture Leadership 157

BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

A New Business Collaboration in Dallas. Our conversations led to us pursuing a new business collaboration we’re currently defining. I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am about collaborating with Mess! I met Paula at a copy shop years ago while preparing for our first big community collaboration event.

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Collaboration Meeting eBook Strategy 68

IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2017

We’ve dedicated lots of time to thinking about innovators. What their skill sets are, what traits they possess , and what the profile of innovators is globally. And then the profile for the embedded innovation group within an organization: A majority of IdeaScale customers have some level of program maturity (between 1-3 years old).

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Ideation Innovation Programs Innovation Crowdsourcing 140

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This is the time for each enterprise to re-envision itself for the new emerging era, to re-think its operations and organization, to innovate its offerings, and to build a culture where its people are inspired and enabled to create the future together. Learn more about our Climate Action Sweepstakes here!

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Crowdsourcing Disruption Engagement Industry 130

Flying Fish Lab

AUGUST 10, 2023

Let’s walk down memory lane: The music industry faced significant disruption with the emergence of Napster, a peer-to-peer file-sharing application enabling illegal downloads, causing a decline in CD sales. iTunes challenged this convention by offering legal digital downloads of individual songs, eliminating the need to buy entire albums.

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Disruption Industry Video Collaboration 98

IdeaScale

AUGUST 21, 2019

Rob Hoehn is the co-founder and CEO of IdeaScale, maker of world-class cloud-based innovation software. From there, IdeaScale expanded to serve many more government agencies as well as private enterprises, ultimately becoming the world’s largest open innovation software platform. A Platform for Innovation Management.

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Tips Crowdsourcing Software Innovation 113

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Creativity and innovation are universally considered as positive phenomena. Moreover, innovation psychology researchers conclude that both creativity and innovation are well-distributed across all global cultures. However, that doesn’t mean that one culture innovates the same as another culture.

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Culture Creativity Innovation Innovation Management 113

Planview

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Speed in delivering high-value innovations is a critical differentiator that can make or break companies. According to a Boston Consulting Group report, companies prioritizing innovation—arriving first to market with new and relevant ideas—outperform the MSCI World Index on shareholder return by 3.3 percentage points per year.

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Product Development Innovation Innovation Management Software 64

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Eighty percent of nonprofit leaders consider innovation to be mandatory, yet of those, only 40 percent think their organization is ready for innovation. Leaders recognize the importance of innovation, yet many aren’t sure how to make their organizations innovation-ready. Laying a Strong Foundation for Innovation.

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Culture Crowdsourcing Innovation Strategy 113

IdeaScale

JANUARY 22, 2020

Traditional approaches to creating innovation strategies are no longer providing effective solutions. Instead, companies are adopting a way of solving problems known as open innovation. One method for practicing open innovation is through crowdsourcing, the process of sharing ideas across industries to solve a common problem.

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Crowdsourcing Open Innovation Industry Engagement 189

IdeaScale

APRIL 25, 2017

IdeaScale hosts the annual Innovation Management Awards in order to celebrate emerging and established innovators, but also to find new best practices and methods for success. So what characteristics do the innovation management award winners have in common? Great innovators create and follow maps. In a video?

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Innovation Management Management Innovation Video 100

IdeaScale

MAY 7, 2019

Innovation is ultimately about solving problems. While it’s possible to solve problems in both innovative and non-innovative ways, innovative problem-solving has the potential to make major changes to what people do, how they conduct business, and how they live life. Develop Habits That Support Innovation.

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How To Innovation Tools Brainstorming 113

IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

Hackathons originally emerged as a way to quickly advance software technologies and identify new areas for technology innovation. The term has since evolved to encompass other types of intensive collaboration events. Running a hackathon that prompts genuine innovation requires careful planning.

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Software Review How To Technical Review Exercises 113

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 21, 2018

There has just been a highly useful benchmarking report released by Innovation Leader with KPMG LLP sponsoring this and providing some of their collective insights into the different aspects of “ Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2018″ At present, you can download the report before it might slip behind a paywall at some later stage.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 27, 2017

Digital technologies are beginning to have a real impact on the methods, approaches, and rates of our innovation outputs. We continually learn, at our cost, that intuition and ‘gut feel’ on research set up and gathered weeks or more often months ago. Social technologies are giving us real-time understanding.

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Technology Change Agile Innovation 179

InnovationManagement

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Innovation thought leader Nick Skillicorn recently did a pretty good job summarizing all of the innovation theories. Download this infographic to learn more about the 15 Theories of Innovation. The post How Many Types of Innovation Are There? The post How Many Types of Innovation Are There?

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Innovation Innovation Management Management Learning 84

BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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Collaboration Strategic Thinking Groups Engagement 40

eZassi

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Groups seeking to rapidly change their external innovation velocities can do so through honest self-assessment of their internal capabilities, and subsequent selection of the proper resources, information management tools and collaboration models to build the sustainable external innovation organization that works best for them.

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Change Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Collaboration 52

IdeaScale

JUNE 6, 2019

There may have been a time – a decade or two ago – when businesses could look at innovation as optional, but everything has changed since then. Today the question is not whether to innovate , but how to do so as efficiently as possible. After all, even the most powerful innovations start out as an idea.

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Idea Management Technology Management Tools 157

IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

Innovators listen to what leaders say, but most of all, they watch what leaders do. Day-to-day actions and decisions show whether leaders are actually committed to innovation or whether it’s simply a popular tagline that sounds good but has no real support. However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership.

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Handbook Innovation Leadership Project 150

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Part of my shifting my own innovation advisory work was to build out a greater understanding of the power of ecosystems platforms and customer experience collaborations. Also, a great place to start is to download their Whitepaper “ From Business Modelling to Platform Design ”.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Design 154