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Managing Expectations in Innovation Management: Part II

IdeaScale

One of the most effective ways to engage the crowd is to demonstrate commitment to turning their ideas into real value and impact. However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”.

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Announcing the 2016 Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

Having received some fantastic entries, we have officially chosen and are extremely pleased to share our winners for the 2016 Innovation Management Awards. City of Calgary—Best Engagement Strategy. In order to increase engagement, the City launched a multi-channel campaign to inform employees and get them involved.

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What Innovation Funnel Should I Use?

InnovationManagement

After a decade working in innovation, I think many of us are sick and tired of seeing a funnel on another slide at an innovation conference. The post What Innovation Funnel Should I Use? appeared first on Innovation Management.

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It takes a visionary

Wazoku

I meet and talk to visionary innovation leaders all the time. Many in the c-suite today are there after working up the corporate, mostly top-down ladders, where when their careers began, the big buzzy words were not Transformation, Innovation, Crowdsourcing, and let’s try one of the most unsexy words of all…Ideation.

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Charities – the sleeping giants of innovation

Wazoku

I’ve recently been exploring the charity sector, to gauge interest in crowdsourcing ideas from their employees, partners or customers, as I was aware of several “innovation teams” being setup or already existing within many of the major charities. yet it seems that crowdsourcing isn’t. How things could be better.

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How to drive API adoption through hackathons

hackerearth

Studies show that hackathons seem to be the most effective method to acquire and engage developer talent for open APIs. From the snapshot below, you can see that attracting and engaging developers are core activities for a successful API strategy. Hackathons are different from developer conferences and meetups. “A Introduction.

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How to enable inclusive innovation

hackerearth

Pittsburgh (PA) has an Inclusive Innovation Week every year with focus areas being open data, local business, digital divide, clean technology, city operations, and civic engagement. You also have programs in developing countries such as the Inter Institutional Inclusive Innovations Centre ( i4C ) in India. Conclusion.

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