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Culture of Innovation: Premera Blue Cross Engages Employees to Drive Innovation

Planview

As organizations seek to add value to customers and develop new, differentiated products and services, innovation is at the heart of strategy. It starts with creating a culture of innovation from within by tapping into the wisdom of employees. Nurture a culture of innovation through crowdsourcing, workshops, and meet ups.

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Building a Culture of Innovation

Fehmida Kapadia

In his book Imagine How Creativity Works , John Lehrer has researched and documented these historical examples that created environments of innovation and creativity. Engage in and encourage outsider thinking “Outsider creativity isn’t a phase of life, it is a state of mind” ?—?John

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Employee Engagement Propels Innovation

Planview

Most companies will agree that innovation is critical to sustaining growth and remaining competitive. Creating a culture of innovation is seen by most business leaders as the number one way to drive innovation for the business. However, for this culture to exist, employee engagement is imperative.

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Using Crowdsourced Innovation in the Real World

Planview

To keep up with the modern professional landscape, companies must create an innovation culture that constantly looks for new ways to meet the needs of the customer. One way to do that is through crowdsourced innovation. Crowdsourcing Innovation Effectively. Innovation drives companies into the future.

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Innovating During and Post-Crisis: How to Keep the Momentum

IdeaScale

Foster a Culture of Innovation. Innovation in any business requires a well-connected team full of people with different perspectives and insights. First, make sure to properly engage your employees at every step of the way. Remember, only around 41% of employees were actively engaged during 2020.

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Are You Working on the Right Things? The Power of Collaborative Channels

Planview

We’d recommend creating channels for collaboration – crowdsourcing via the web – at all junctures in the work management lifecycle. Hmmm, crowdsourcing. “Oh, Let’s break down the innovation lifecycle and consider the options for establishing managed internal and external collaboration channels. Insights – The “Is it Worth Doing?”

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How KBC Bank Used Crowdsourced Innovation to Create Massive Employee Engagement

Planview

To do that, we must understand our customers’ needs, which means having all of the information we can get from the employees that directly engage with them.” More importantly, KBC created the engagement they needed from their employees to have a sustainable culture of innovation. Information breads insight.