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BIG Ideas: How ICL Built a Billion Dollar Innovation Accelerator

Qmarkets

Powered by Qmarkets’ idea management solution Q-ideate , BIG gathers and implements ideas sourced by over 13,000 ICL employees around the world. What can ICL’s approach to crowdsourcing tell us about how to launch a successful idea management program? To find out, let’s dive into the world of BIG.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

Businesses looking to discover how to beat a recession with idea management and continuous improvement would also do well to adopt it. Sustain: Continuously review the workflow and scale as needed This system offers an efficient, repeatable way to analyze what resources you can best leverage to drive innovation.

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Can We Have One of These? A Product Innovation Platform

Paul Hobcraft

We still break it up into separate parts, dealing with the pre-ideas stage, collecting insights, the idea management, then into a pipeline or portfolio system, that all has so such manual and siloed approaches built into this. This gives food for thought in designing functionality into a broader innovation management platform.

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Building the Single Innovation Digital Platform Environment

Paul Hobcraft

The majority of the present software providers fail to grasp this. Those that do will be coming more from the Product Lifecycle Management perspective (PLM) where product design has always been complex. Those that don’t come from the old traditional thinking about innovation idea management or managing a single product portfolio.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Of course, a lot of tough decisions were also made as they had to restructure the organization from the ground up. Even if you might have to kill some of the long-horizon projects due to financial consideration, you can still think of alternatives that will ensure long-term growth.

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The Importance of Decision

IdeaScale

” You might not include each of these people in the decision-making process in the exact same way or at the exact same time, but you can use software to develop an inclusive yet efficient system. For example, an ideation phase is a great time for discussion and a review phase is a great time for decision-maing).

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3 Steps to Design Your Innovation Management Program

IdeaScale

If you’re not sure how to do this, check out our webinars on process and on how to evaluate ideas. Ideas should garner a certain number of comments, reviews, funds (or whatever you define at each stage) to move forward and then you can focus on building on those ideas and not moving them forward through an ideation funnel.