IdeaConnection

DECEMBER 23, 2016

President Barack Obama has been honored with the Award for Outstanding Global leadership in Open Innovation. This public and well-deserved recognition took place at the recent World Open Innovation Conference in Barcelona, Spain.

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Destination Innovation

JUNE 15, 2018

This is the Launch phase where the need for innovation is recognised but not much has been achieved so far. Many public sector bodies and staid companies are at this stage. Most companies are probably at this level. You are implementing modern concepts of Open Innovation and the Minimum Viable Product. Achievement.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 12, 2022

Overview: Xaxis, the world’s largest programmatic media company, realized that despite the company’s global reach, it didn’t have a global innovation program. Xaxis used IdeaScale to launch the Xcellerate program. To learn more about Xaxis, read our company case study. The Challenge.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Crowdsourcing and open innovation initiatives are vital by bringing vast stakeholders together to share ideas on complex problems and opportunities. One of the top innovation management topics I run into is evaluating the Return on Investment (ROI) for an idea. Design your Open Innovation Campaign to Collect Financial Data .

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Innov8rs

APRIL 17, 2024

Beyond internal innovation, Zurich is also continuously looking for solutions externally. The customer-facing side of the company is also consulted on the latest trends and customer insights in the market, followed by business leads for different regions - who have the opportunity to feed back on the biggest challenges they’d like solving.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

On the other side you had the experts – think of Coopers and Edgett, Clayton Christiansen, Henry Chesbrough and Jay Doblin, theorizing and promoting new approaches to innovate. These gurus were directly interacting with companies of all industries, mainly in the US and were offering access to new benchmarks. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 30, 2021

How to transform innovative bottom-up initiatives into a movement spread across the company? How to scale your innovation program widely? Here are a few lessons learned from creating innovation programs in Europe, and tweaking them to Africa and Middle-East contexts. … Continue reading →

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

On the other side you had the experts – think of Coopers and Edgett, Clayton Christiansen, Henry Chesbrough and Jay Doblin, theorizing and promoting new approaches to innovate. These gurus were directly interacting with companies of all industries, mainly in the US and were offering access to new benchmarks. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

It’s time to realize the power an open innovation challenge methodology - specifically one that involves crowdsourcing - can have when it comes to affecting real change. Can open innovation challenge methods solve the world’s most pressing problems? Extraordinary situations call for unorthodox solutions.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 24, 2018

IdeaScale Gov hosted its first-ever Open Nation DC April 12 at the WeWork White House location. For us at IdeaScale, Open Nation is always our favorite week of the year. We’ve been hosting a company-wide Open Nation event in Berkeley for three years now. Planning for Open Nation DC 2019 is already in the works!

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

Here a few benefits that organizations are most likely to achieve from innovation: Competitive Edge There are many examples of new businesses taking over the market and killing their competitors, but perhaps one of the most well-known is Blockbuster vs. Netflix. “In But what’s most important is they’re frequent.’

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

Here a few benefits that organizations are most likely to achieve from innovation: Competitive Edge There are many examples of new businesses taking over the market and killing their competitors, but perhaps one of the most well-known is Blockbuster vs. Netflix. “In But what’s most important is they’re frequent.’

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Planview

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In the open innovation space, one regularly leads to the other. Read these three in-depth industry reports to find out the new rules of the collaborative economy, why the United States is leading the way in turning customer feedback into innovative products, and what challenges are soon to crop up in crowdsourcing.

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IdeaScale

JULY 11, 2018

This tenet underpins most of crowdsourcing and all open innovation programs. So we thought we’d take a moment this week to celebrate four innovations that started as employee ideas. They had the vision to identify a solution, test it and their companies had the foresight to support and implement it.

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CREATORS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Why do you need internal innovation if you can buy or partner with external (startup) technologies? Corporations do not see their “innovation maturity” as a combination of internal capacity to enable (internal and external) innovation activities and open innovation with external partners. if done right?—?may

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Planview

OCTOBER 2, 2015

One of those brands is Unilever , one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products that launched its crowdsourced innovation program , Unilever Foundry, last year, to make sustainable living commonplace by collaborating with innovators. Be a Part of the Crowdsourcing Solution.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Navigating Innovation Management: Implement a Scalable Process and Engaging Platform for Enterprise Ideation and Collaboration Creating Open Innovation Solutions Regardless of your organization’s innovation portfolio size or scope, every business needs a strategy and competitive advantage for growth and technological advancement.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 25, 2019

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. Open innovation program. This process is risky however, as many as 90% of startups fail.

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eZassi

JANUARY 4, 2023

We propose you ask these twelve strategic planning questions and read through the suggested resolutions for energizing your organization’s innovative culture. This is a month-by-month prompt to spark the innovative spirit of your company and illuminate a brighter innovation portfolio this year. This is an idea “Generator.”

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Every successful company has one thing in common: a deep-seated commitment to innovation. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

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IdeaConnection

JANUARY 27, 2017

And through its open innovation program, AZ will provide its partners with “unprecedented access” to the bot, known as NiCoLA-B. Belief in the Power of Open Innovation. For more information about AstraZeneca’s Open Innovation program, click here to watch the short video on their open innovation page.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 21, 2020

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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CREATORS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Why do you need internal innovation if you can buy or partner with external (startup) technologies? Corporations do not see their “innovation maturity” as a combination of internal capacity to enable (internal and external) innovation activities and open innovation with external partners. if done right?—?may

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eZassi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The organization’s collective intelligence is multiplied, leading to more innovative outcomes and solutions to your biggest challenges. How does a company encourage an intrapreneurial spirit in employees? Organizational innovation – New strategies to streamline, automate, or modify business operations to promote company growth.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 16, 2018

With so much disruptive innovation happening so fast, it has become less and less rare for companies to be formed around a service or product that defines them for their lifetime. The company had a chance to communicate with their prospective market in an efficient way, which led to tremendous success. But Tiffany & Co.

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eZassi

JUNE 7, 2017

Innovation is the key to the success, and some argue the survival, of an organization in today’s dynamic disruptive markets. While company leaders agree that innovation is critical to their ongoing relevance, there is an ongoing challenge of how to measure the value and effectiveness of an innovation program.

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hackerearth

JUNE 8, 2017

The average lifespan of S&P 500 companies is just 18 years, down from 61 years in 1958. At this churn rate, 75% of the companies will be removed from the index in another 10 years. On the other hand, companies such as GE and Procter & Gamble have been around for more than 100 years and still continue to grow.

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InnovationManagement

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Numerous organizations run crowdsourced innovation programs, because companies can find better new ideas and take action on those ideas faster. This process allows companies to set a challenge and gather ideas from hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of participants.

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eZassi

MAY 17, 2017

Whether the focus is on product development, service delivery, customer satisfaction, or market share capture, competition drives a company to improve its performance. This should be part of a comprehensive open innovation program that is supported by effective tools to manage the process from scouting through resolution.

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Yet2

MAY 24, 2017

Even before the popularization of the term “Open Innovation” (OI) in 2003, companies have been striving to build the best framework for harnessing external innovation; but yet2 is seeing a second phenomenon: Innovation Fatigue. Innovation Fatigue.

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eZassi

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

CIMdata recently published this report, eZassi participated in the report findings, providing insight, commentary, discovery and suggestions to aide in guiding enterprise organizations with connecting the dots of enterprise innovation management (EIM). Innovation Program Management. Social Innovation. Open Innovation.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Awesome new ideas are what make an innovation program…well, an innovation program. But it’s the tools you use that help those ideas become reality and bring about tangible returns — tools like innovation management software (and for some, a new way of thinking about innovation altogether).

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Our innovation funnel has so far utilized external sources, but it is in this phase that you should also incorporate internal resources. Strategic & Company Goals This is usually where the standard innovation funnel begins, using your organization’s goals and strategy to define what to ideate around.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 21, 2017

If you’re tired of not being able to compete with bigger companies in your industry due to a lack of research and development (R&D) budget, the good news is that’s no longer a problem. Open innovation allows everyone to compete equally, whether their development budget is large or small. What is Open Innovation.

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eZassi

APRIL 3, 2017

New Chief Innovation Officer Signals Bright Future for Ezassi. Ezassi, a leader in open innovation and idea management software, is excited to announce that Denise Fletcher will be joining the company in the newly created role of Chief Innovation Officer.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Our innovation funnel has so far utilized external sources, but it is in this phase that you should also incorporate internal resources. Strategic & Company Goals This is usually where the standard innovation funnel begins, using your organization’s goals and strategy to define what to ideate around.

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eZassi

APRIL 21, 2021

The biggest take-away from the HBR report and subsequent reports is that for an innovation program to be successful, the focus should be a mix of incremental (core), adjacent and transformational initiatives. This mix will enable a program to deliver results both in the near term and long term.

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