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How Open Source Can Help Drive Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview: Open source software, patents, and research provide the codebase, data, and information to anyone who wants to explore it. For governments, this allows better citizen engagement and support without committing substantial funds to upgrading or becoming locked into proprietary systems. What Is Open Source?

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. The idea encouraged exploring the organisation’s boundaries and engaging with customers, suppliers, and partners to co-create and co-innovate. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up. This evolved over many years.

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16 Best Free Online Brainstorming Tools in 2022

IdeaScale

Start with this excellent video by Sprouts, an online organization dedicated to learning, science, and ideation. The free web-based brainstorming software makes it simple to upload a document, create a tracking table, and use all other features with a team, sharing documents and collecting edits. Google Docs & Google Sheets.

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From Consumer to Collaborator: A Look at Open Innovation

IdeaScale

Social media and online connectivity let consumers offer organizations instant feedback, both positive and negative, from detailed reviews to passionate emails to there-and-gone Snapchat snaps. Some industries simply can’t be open, due to contractual or client constraints. How Should I Use Open Innovation?

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The Need for Digital Innovation Platforms

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation is struggling to really perform and unleash breakthrough products due to many ‘inbuilt’ inhibitors. Embedded software is becoming more important in value than the physical product. Embedded software is becoming essential within products; from shoes, household appliances, cars, travel etc.

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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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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? If ICL met quarterly to review those, why not treat innovation with the same transparency? ICL’s employees around the world can submit their ideas on ICL’s ideation platform PITCH BIG, powered by Qmarkets’ Q-ideate software.

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