IdeaScale

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Use what you know about your customer’s needs, competitors, and your changing marketplace to determine where your new strategy for innovation should begin. The most effective strategies for growth will start by pinpointing a significant customer need or pain point and working backward to find the technology that might help.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The ‘Your Ride, You Decide’ program crowdsourced ideas and feedback on designs for MARTA’s new fleet of rail cars from thousands of riders across the region. Lyle Harris, Senior Director of Customer and Employee Experience at MARTA We caught up with Lyle Harris, who is tasked with running MARTA’s crowdsourcing initiatives.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In this blog, we will recommend strategies for choosing the best features for your innovation roadmap along with the do’s and don’ts of feature prioritization. . The idea is to look at how your customers feel about the features you have in place and rank them accordingly, from most important to least needed by users or vice versa.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The Kanban system is a visualization strategy that helps you manage innovative development projects. Through this strategy, you can also develop permanent solutions for fixing some of your organization’s most pressing problems. But how did the Kanban system evolve into the progressive visualization strategy that it is today?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Are you looking for ways to take your innovation strategy to the next level in 2020? Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started. Learn how to get those creative juices flowing with tools such as: Google Docs Visual Thesaurus Coggle and more.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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. So why do open innovation strategies have real potential to take innovation into business ecosystems ?

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Wazoku

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The employer just needs to know how to extract this information and put it to good use. This is where crowdsourcing comes in, an idea that has come into its own in the digital age. This is crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is not the answer to this — but it could help find out what is. What do you do?

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Planview

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Scott Raskin, CEO at Spigit, recently wrote an article for HR Daily Advisor that covered five key drivers for employee engagement, and how crowdsourced innovation can help. The post How Crowdsourced Innovation Bolsters Employee Engagement appeared first on Spigit. Check out the HR Daily Advisor article for more.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

They can be a key component of any organization’s innovation strategy, but you can’t simply block off some time for a hackathon and expect it to produce actionable results. What you do before and at the beginning of a hackathon has a tremendous impact on how successful it will be.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

Businesses can deploy these same principles within their own innovation strategies. Similar innovation strategies can be noted within all fields of industry; from the technology sector to the entertainment industry. The post How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas appeared first on IdeaScale.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The power tools giant runs quick one-to-four week challenges to solicit ideas on how to improve their product lines. The Home Depot invited him to a store in Atlanta to discuss how to reinvigorate the plumbing department. Laszlo Gyorffy is president of EDG, an IdeaScale partner that specializes in innovation strategy.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The ‘Your Ride, You Decide’ program crowdsourced ideas and feedback on designs for MARTA’s new fleet of rail cars from thousands of riders across the region. Lyle Harris, Senior Director of Customer and Employee Experience at MARTA We caught up with Lyle Harris, who is tasked with running MARTA’s crowdsourcing initiatives.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In this blog, we will share the additional ‘innovation assets’ that many companies are yet to include in their business innovation strategy. Benefits of Crowdsourcing Ideas Ideas have a huge amount of potential and can result in a variety of benefits for an organization. Creativity then facilitates out of the box thinking.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

We sat down with her to discuss her experience at Qmarkets, creativity and innovation management, as well as her vision for the future of the crowdsourcing platform. Working with the rest of the team, we aimed to develop the best approach to address these comprehensively within the new crowdsourcing platform.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In this blog, we will share the additional ‘innovation assets’ that many companies are yet to include in their business innovation strategy. Benefits of Crowdsourcing Ideas Ideas have a huge amount of potential and can result in a variety of benefits for an organization. Creativity then facilitates out of the box thinking.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Innovation strategy in a highly regulated industry presents specific challenges.?. This is where innovation strategy gets dicey, but don’t let it discourage you. The challenge is that many innovation strategies encourage sharing all ideas — no matter how outlandish — in the brainstorming and exploratory stages.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

One of the most important decisions people in organizations make on a daily basis at all levels is choosing how to spend resources. Intelligent use of resources manifests in improved internal functions, delightful customer experiences, productive partnerships, winning competitive strategies, and other areas. Hmmm, crowdsourcing. “Oh,

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 29, 2021

Yet another person says "innovation" and means crowdsourcing and employee engagement systems. How to choose This raises another Baskin-Robbins dilemma: how to choose across highly variable projects with uncertain outcomes. This approach allows executives (if they are willing to do so) to align strategy to innovation activities.

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CMOE

AUGUST 8, 2019

Military strategy is thousands of years old but the field of business strategy has only been around for about fifty years. Because this field is so new, there’s still a lot of disagreement about how business strategy and business models should be defined—and often among those who write about these topics the most!

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IdeaScale

MARCH 26, 2020

Launching Excellence Much of the work at NASA is about tiny, tiny details: how to shave a little weight off a battery, how to eliminate parts in a machine to reduce the risk of failure, or how to make a system more intuitive. There are thousands of these little challenges that need to be resolved.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 18, 2020

Whatever disruptive challenges your company is facing, it is important to remember that your crowdsourcing platform can help you find a solution. It will have a profound impact on virtually all aspects of business – from production processes, to HR regulations, to marketing strategies.

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Planview

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Business2Community recently published an article written by Spigit’s CEO, Scott Raskin, discussing how a focus on crowdsourced innovation can help drive employee engagement. With this figure barely changing over the past decade, employers must find new and impactful ways to drive engagement while still aligning with corporate strategy.

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IdeaScale

MAY 21, 2015

While deciding to incorporate an innovation program may be an easy decision, deciding the structure and strategy surrounding that program can be more difficult. How do you encourage and foster good ideas? They have found that starting with a great innovation strategy can make all the difference.

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Planview

APRIL 15, 2024

How to Identify AI Use Cases 1. Crowdsource ideas. Crowdsourcing. Razat Gaurav, CEO of Planview, described how Planview surfaced AI use cases: “We leveraged one of our own tools called IdeaPlace to solicit all kinds of internal and external use cases from across our employee base.” The best way to get them?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Now is the time to engage with the disruptive forces reshaping virtually every industry by turning radically disruptive signals into strategy, and strategy into action. i.e. Collect ideas on how the company can set the right example for using renewable energy.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

This is the second post looking more at collaboration and idealization and how and what has helped it evolve in this period. Hopefully, this change has enabled better value creation and learning how to innovate. Instead, they are tapping into the global pool of talent and ideas, using tools like crowdsourcing and hackathons.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives. Given that you may be sourcing different types of solutions, consider also focusing on how your incentives will impact the nature of the participation (e.g. Let me know devin@IdeaScale.com or on twitter @devinmcintire. —.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 10, 2018

From there, the conversation centered around a few principle questions like “How we can reduce local violence/ disturbances and make public space safer?” It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Is your innovation strategy working? Crowdsourcing in the military? This year’s conference-goers will learn from the best when the Cleveland Cavaliers talk about how they pick new members of the team. Innovation leaders will discuss other methods of measurement, including specifics for big industries such as health care.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Leaders recognize the importance of innovation, yet many aren’t sure how to make their organizations innovation-ready. One problem with innovation strategy in nonprofits is that since they are not for profit, they don’t necessarily push themselves to “compete” by improving their business models or offering innovative products and services.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 11, 2019

Finally, I'll address some thoughts on how to fix it. What they really need is a why and a how. By why I mean a good strategy that defines where they want to compete, what they hope to win. Creating a new and compelling product or service WITH the how and why in place is challenging.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 31, 2020

Medical professionals and businesses in multiple industries are learning how to use technology and innovation strategy during this pandemic to curtail the spread of such diseases. Download our Crowdsourcing and Healthcare white paper , and join our newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest information.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 23, 2020

Hoehn wanted companies and government organizations to be able to gather, transform, and prioritize ideas through crowdsourcing. Dedication to continuous improvement through the right business strategies spurs the use of IdeaScale’s software platform. IdeaScale’s customer base is concerned with digital transformation and innovation.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Success factors in strategic planning and creating collaborative strategy were the central topics we tackled on an edition of Smart Companies Radio, hosted by Kelly Scanlon, the owner of Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc., 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy and Strategic Planning. Creating Strategic Impact – How to Start?

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 9, 2017

Did Kickstarter become a dominant force in the growing crowdsourcing industry because it was agile? By using strategies such as Hard Trends (those things we know for certain are going to occur) and Soft Trends (those that may occur but are open to influence), you can anticipate the future and, from there, plan accordingly. Not at all.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 30, 2021

Strategies for reaching these long-term goals are in the works. Submitting crowdsourced ideas is a great way to share insights into finding the right solutions. Want to learn more about how to collect ideas and take innovation to the next level? All industries will be affected, including: Oil and gas. Electric power.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2019

While creativity is central to any innovation strategy, it takes more than just ideas to be an innovative leader. An innovative leader has a good sense both of what risks an organization can handle without too much trouble and how to keep those risks in check if a plan boomerangs. Leadership in innovation is more than positivity.

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