Qmarkets

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Customer-centric innovation is at the heart of everything that MARTA strives for. As part of that effort, in 2020 MARTA started to use Qmarkets’ idea management platform to gather ideas from both inside and outside the organization, in order to drive their public sector innovations. Were there many people to convince?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Why do startups have a head start in innovation? One of the great virtues of startups is that they have to innovate quickly, or they cease to exist. Here are some lessons to learn from how startups innovate quickly and turn into established companies. Building an innovation culture starts with a strong foundation.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 21, 2021

Innovation requires both ideas and data. Our infographic explores when you should collect data with surveys versus developing ideas with crowdsourcing. Surveys sample from a specific group: The only people who take a survey are generally those you ask to take it, and often only the most engaged out of that particular group.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 17, 2019

Non-profit engagement is about more than volunteering. Just like other organizations, however, they can struggle with innovation and change, especially when all ideas come from the inside. Crowdsourcing can be a powerful tool for helping non-profits generate innovative ideas in the long term. Stronger Employee Engagement.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Crowdsourcing is just one facet of innovation strategy. So, if crowdsourcing doesn’t work for your specific issue, here’s how to bolster innovation without it. Learn how your product is actually used, not just how you intended it to be used when pursuing new ideas. Look Internally.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2018

As an innovation strategist at IdeaScale, I focus on helping our clients think creatively about how best to engage their crowd and leverage the wisdom of the crowd to source ideas for new products and services and improve processes. Want to learn more? This post is by Sonja Sulcer, Innovation Strategist at IdeaScale.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 11, 2020

IdeaScale has recently acquired Betterific, a crowdsourcing platform that engages a community of 18,000+ creative problem solvers, design thinkers, and ideators to help you come up with your next big idea. Learn more about how you can tap into this innovative community.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 22, 2017

After 69 years of growth, Dick’s is a great company ripe for crowdsourcing and they launched their first company-wide ideation platform last year. But how do we know that a company like Dick’s is a good fit for crowdsourcing? Well, here are a few qualities that make a company more likely to succeed in a crowdsourcing effort.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. Building An Inclusive Innovation Practice. When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, Davidson turned towards its innovation process to address the rapid change and safety challenges the pandemic presented.

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IdeaScale

MAY 4, 2021

Crowdsourcing allows organizations to find and work with self-selected volunteers to accomplish tasks, gather information, or gain new ideas. Critics often assume that employed professionals don’t have time to participate in crowdsourcing projects. However, project managers might wonder exactly who these “crowd workers” are.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 15, 2017

Crowdsourcing can add up in surprising ways. Can finance benefit from crowdsourcing? While open innovation and crowdsourcing are incredibly popular in other industries, the financial industry is necessarily more conservative about the technology it uses and the consumers it listens to. Open Innovation As Customer Service.

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Imaginatik

MAY 12, 2015

Working with a wide variety of innovation teams, companies, and innovators we hear: We want to “ democratize” innovation. We want to engage employees in innovation. While these are nice sentiments, something seems to be getting lost along the way to building a true innovation competence.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. All in all, if applied carefully it can provide you with a leading edge of innovation knowledge and insight. I wanted to step back a little and take a more measured look at crowdsourcing over three posts.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 5, 2016

Crowdsourcing does have a real potential in my mind but does seem to have some formidable issues to work through, to be well understood and managed. Continuing with my exploring crowdsourcing. Let’s start here by raising some of the biggest concerns you might have over crowdsourcing? this source: [link]. Part one is here.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 1, 2020

Each year, IdeaScale meets with innovators from all over the globe who gather to share best practices on the management and delivery of ideas. The topics are diverse and offer valuable insight into what it takes to innovate in the ever-changing technological landscape of today. Innovation: The Reality-Making behind the Glamour.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I finished my last post, “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation? ” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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InnovationManagement

JULY 6, 2020

Every year, one question tops all the others that our customers might bring to us: how do I increase engagement in my innovation community? We see this question even in the most robust and activated innovation programs.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. All in all, if applied carefully it can provide you a leading edge of innovation knowledge and insight. I wanted to step back a little and take a more measured look at crowdsourcing.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 5, 2016

Crowdsourcing does have a real potential in my mind but does seem to have some formidable issues to work through, to be well understood and managed. Continuing with my exploring crowdsourcing. Let’s start here by raising some of the biggest concerns you might have over crowdsourcing? this source: [link]. Part one is here.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

This type of purpose can help employees feel engaged, stay longer, work more effectively, and more. This is actually a key advantage that nonprofits have when it comes to innovation. It’s less likely that a nonprofit will be distracted by irrelevant or off-topic ideas and will instead focus on impactful innovation.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Hochschild ’s innovation initiatives are focused on optimizing its current operations through continuous improvement, with a particular focus on corporate responsibility. We recently caught up with Juan Fernando Correa, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 22, 2017

After 69 years of growth, Dick’s is a great company ripe for crowdsourcing and they launched their first company-wide ideation platform last year. But how do we know that a company like Dick’s is a good fit for crowdsourcing? Well, here are a few qualities that make a company more likely to succeed in a crowdsourcing effort.

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Planview

JUNE 19, 2019

Having a well-defined innovation strategy is more important than ever. 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. It all starts with a plan.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 9, 2019

Crowdsourcing reaches the citizens unable to make meetings. Governments are increasingly turning to crowdsourcing and open innovation to encourage citizens across the spectrum to weigh in with ideas, opinions, and perspectives. Voting isn’t the only way to engage with democracy. The City of Huntsville.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Where will Innovation Management Software go? This morning I decided to have a chat on ChatGPT on the future of Innovation Management Software, I asked a number of questions in a short series and can well-relate to the answers provided incredibly quickly. chat.openai.com/chat Where will Innovation Management Software go?

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Although the pandemic results have been catastrophic in many ways, it’s important to remember that massive periods of transformation also pave the way for innovation. Here’s how companies can continue to innovate post-pandemic. Foster a Culture of Innovation. Use Customer Insights to Discover Opportunities.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 28, 2021

Last year DigitalBasel and Qmarkets combined forces to power collaborative innovation as part of the 2020 Swiss Digital Days – a nationwide event that welcomed over 80,000 attendees both virtually and physically across Switzerland.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Customer-centric innovation is at the heart of everything that MARTA strives for. As part of that effort, in 2020 MARTA started to use Qmarkets’ idea management platform to gather ideas from both inside and outside the organization, in order to drive their public sector innovations. Were there many people to convince?

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The firm’s name is a portmanteau of “forward vision” and that, too, is a foundational element of its culture, which also includes a robust commitment to innovation. Denny Ard (pictured left) is the National Director of EDGE, the Innovation Lab of FORVIS. One is the emergence of new technologies. “As

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2018

A lot of crowdsourced innovation programs will tell you to offer incentives to your community of participants in order to drive engagement – but sometimes that’s a challenge for organization either because of budget restrictions or company regulations. The post Align Innovation Incentives to Goals appeared first on IdeaScale.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

IdeaScale is offering innovators from around the world an extra week to complete their submission for the Innovation Management Awards. This is our fifth annual award series and we honor winners in three categories: best innovation engagement strategy, best innovation process, and best innovation.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 14, 2020

The idea of “outsourcing” innovation can seem contrary to the whole concept. Isn’t innovation supposed to be about tapping the potential of your employees while engaging with them on a creative level? Why Should I Outsource Innovation? There’s a lot of reasons to outsource innovation work.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 13, 2018

Crowdsourced innovation communities only succeed when they bring in new voices and encourage them to share ideas. We asked our Innovation Strategists at IdeaScale to share some community engagement tips: “Post a video of a key high-level sponsor showing support for the campaigns that you’re running. ” -Matt Paulson.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Innovation can accomplish great things, even in highly regulated government agencies.?. Five years ago, CDER launched a crowdsourcing program to make better use of its 4,500 employees, and the results have been extremely promising. For their innovation strategy, time-limited challenges work better.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 22, 2017

If you’ve been following IdeaScale’s Innovation Management Awards , you know that this year saw some really thrilling innovation come from some unexpected places. In fact, government is sometimes seen as one of the least innovative industries , but some of our best stories this year came from the government.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Choosing new innovative approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion. What has been changing in how we approach innovation, and have we taken the opportunity to radically revise the innovation system and process accordingly? We need to put to use a different innovation model or approach. In my first post.”

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