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Innovation Program Recipe for Success: The Three Essential Ingredients

Qmarkets

Along the way we have seen a wide variety of approaches and formats, from small-scale hackathons with a few hundred participants, to long term innovation programs involving tens of thousands of users. The definition of an innovation program can sometimes differ, so before we dive in let’s clarify what we mean when we use this term.

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Innovation in Media – Renowned Swiss Publishing House Launches Qmarkets’ Idea Management Platform After Successful Pilot

Qmarkets

Somedia – one of the largest media companies in Switzerland – have selected Qmarkets’ idea management platform to crowdsource ideas from their employees. Starting with a pilot campaign to tackle challenges relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company has now signed up for a two-year license with over 400 users.

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Creating a Culture of Innovation

Innovation in Practice

Here’s what they need to see and believe: An innovative corporate culture is one that supports the creation of new ideas and the implementation of those ideas. Leaders must help employees see innovation in practice as a regular part of how the company does business. See innovation as a competency.

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Idea to Impact: The Maturity of Innovation Programs

Planview

We recently published an article that introduced the shift from idea management to full lifecycle idea management. The main premise of the article was to shed a light on an important aspect of ideation and innovation programs: impact. Does it help surface new opportunities for growth?

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Developing an Effective Innovation Process: Benefits, Steps & Secrets for Success 

Qmarkets

Establishing the right innovation process to deliver on your enterprise company-wide strategy can be a real challenge, but it is crucial to the success of any innovation program. All of these need to be used at the right time, and in the right way, so that your innovation program delivers maximum value at minimum cost.

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Are Japanese Companies Afraid of Innovation?

IdeaScale

I define innovation as creating and capturing new value as the Global Innovation Management Institute does. . We asked 930 companies in Japan the exact same question. Surprisingly, 0 companies had defined innovation for their company! Change the mindset from Kaizen centric to Innovation.

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Can Small Teams Run Innovation Programs?

KindlingApp

We generally call that last kind an “innovation program.” Let’s talk about a fourth kind: programmatic innovation on the scale of a small team, such as a startup or a department within a large company. Desiree’s blog post last week about innovation tools throughout the 20th century was interesting in this regard.