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BIG Ideas: How ICL Built a Billion Dollar Innovation Accelerator

Qmarkets

What can ICL’s approach to crowdsourcing tell us about how to launch a successful idea management program? When you have thousands of employees, you have thousands of perspectives, combined with a wealth of experience and creativity. If ICL met quarterly to review those, why not treat innovation with the same transparency?

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How to Run a Hackathon that Spurs Real Innovation

IdeaScale

Hackathons originally emerged as a way to quickly advance software technologies and identify new areas for technology innovation. Though hackathons often make use of software, they’re no longer necessarily about developing software, but about developing innovation.

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The Importance of Decision

IdeaScale

For the first item, our goal is to make decisions that are accepted by all the key stakeholders and are consistent with the goals of your crowdsourcing or innovation program or the goals of your organization overall. 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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Calculating the ROI of an Idea: Ideas That Saved Time

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing and open innovation initiatives are vital by bringing vast stakeholders together to share ideas on complex problems and opportunities. To guide us in calculating ROI, I use Ray Sheen’s and Amy Gall’s Guide to Building Your Business Case published in the Harvard Business Review. Introduction to ROI.

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The Winning Formula for Financial Process Improvement – How TSYS is Defining the Future of Fintech

Qmarkets

In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at how TSYS launched their revolutionary Project WOW (War on Waste) – a ground-breaking process improvement methodology developed by management consulting firm Above + Beyond and powered by Qmarkets software. This criterion is what led them ultimately to Above + Beyond.

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The ABCs of Innovation Leadership: A Guide to Success with Innovation Management Software

Qmarkets

Hill and her colleagues in an article published in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) last year. The second thing that occurred to me was that each of these ABCs are roles that we proactively embed within organizations through innovation management software. What makes a great leader? That’s the question posed by Professor Linda A.

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8 External Innovation Sources You should know

ITONICS

In addition to a software that automatically evaluates and clusters all trend and technology information, a dedicated team of external trend and tech scouts can deliver a continuous flood of data. Software and consulting companies. Software and consulting companies that provide solutions and services for innovation management.