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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. Last week we focused on engaging stakeholders and experts early and often. Crowdsourcing can uncover ideas, questions, issues, and approaches you might not have thought of.

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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. Much of the focus is set on engaging the crowd yet deciding which ideas to take a risk on requires data on the likely impacts and costs. . Introduction to ROI. An Idea that Saves Time.

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Transforming workplace culture with your innovation management program

IdeaScale

It follows then that you should invest in engagement strategies that not only produce ideas but also drive wide and supportive engagement through voting, commenting and other team-building and refinement methods. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. Job Crafting.

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4 Reasons Why Defining Goals is Critical to Successful Ideation Challenges

Planview

I’ve been working with several ideation program managers recently to launch their first crowdsourcing challenge and noticed that many try to bypass the step of defining goals. Like any project or strategic initiative, it’s important to understand why you’re spending time on this activity.

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The Four Types of Innovation Metrics

Imaginatik

Measuring transformative innovations is an exercise in patience. Engagement levels. Projects launched. Running simulations based on models of the future will indicate whether the portfolio of innovation projects, if carried forward, will contribute materially to expected strategic imperatives over time.

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Applying Collaborative Innovation to Design Thinking

Innovation Architecture

Customer engagement costs time and money, however: travel and administrative costs, for example. To this end, the virtual aspect of collaborative innovation—crowdsourcing ideas and insights around the critical question—can serve as a useful addition to the design thinker’s tool box. In the What Is? Parting Thoughts.

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How Qmarkets Partnered with NHS to Create the Most Sophisticated Healthcare Innovation Exchange Platform in the UK

Qmarkets

Read on to discover more about this fascinating project. QM: What led you to search for a crowdsourcing/innovation management solution ? While some vendors had experience with internal employee crowdsourcing, it was important for us to choose a vendor that could also facilitate external crowdsourcing through open innovation.