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Innovation SOP: Using Hackathons to Advance Digital Transformation

Qmarkets

Most companies already know that hackathons are a useful tool for gathering ideas, but companies need to know how to do this right. This week, we look at how companies can use hackathons not as a standalone idea-gathering tool, but as part of an overall comprehensive innovation process. Sweeney, S.,

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Five Things You Should Measure about Your Innovation System

The Inovo Group

Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works. A recent article in HBR describes a study of 154 companies that use the Spigit idea management system to analyze data on new concepts as they move from initial idea to reality. The four phases are as follows: Data from 3.5 Both need to be measured. [2]

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Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Digital and Offline Innovation

Qmarkets

Online innovation has become very popular in the past few years, and for good reason. This variety of perspectives significantly enriches the innovation process. GroupMe, a group messaging app, began as a hackathon project at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in 2010. In 2011 it was acquired for $85 million by Skype.

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Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Digital and Offline Innovation

Qmarkets

Online innovation has become very popular in the past few years, and for good reason. This variety of perspectives significantly enriches the innovation process. GroupMe, a group messaging app, began as a hackathon project at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in 2010. In 2011 it was acquired for $85 million by Skype.