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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IdeaScale

JUNE 26, 2018

Every spring at IdeaScale, we start receiving requests from undergraduate and graduate students around the globe who are researching crowdsourcing and its potential application in the business world. But we thought we’d document some of the most common questions below to tell you what you need to know about crowdsourcing.

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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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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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IdeaScale

AUGUST 22, 2019

Peter Berger is the Director of Innovation for EmbraerX, a Silicon Valley innovation unit of Brazilian aerospace company Embraer. Berger recently sat down for an interview with IdeaScale’s Jessica Day for IdeaScale Nation, the company’s innovation podcast. Innovation Units Should Be Separate from Business Units.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Our CEO was recently interviewed by the San Francisco Business Times and the conversation pulled up short for a moment when the interviewer (after hearing us talk about the possibilities afforded by an innovation management system) asked us why people are sometimes afraid to launch a crowdsourced innovation program.

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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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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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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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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 11, 2021

This data gathering and analysis takes up the better part of our first quarter and our report is generally published in March, but 2020 is a unique year for the crowdsourced innovation community (and indeed for everyone in the world). The post What Can We Learn from the Innovation Averages in 2020?

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

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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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Over the years that followed, this venture would overcome significant obstacles and make countless breakthroughs on its journey to becoming the global innovation powerhouse known nowadays as ICL. Innovation is central to the company’s commitment to help humanity meet its sustainability challenges.

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100%Open

JULY 3, 2023

Today, we delve into inclusive innovation, where diversity and collaboration drive remarkable outcomes. In today’s world, the leading edge of innovation is becoming a collaborative and inclusive process, benefiting from user involvement s and collective intelligence.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Navigating Innovation Management: Implement a Scalable Process and Engaging Platform for Enterprise Ideation and Collaboration Creating Open Innovation Solutions Regardless of your organization’s innovation portfolio size or scope, every business needs a strategy and competitive advantage for growth and technological advancement.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 8, 2017

JUMP is an online crowdsourcing community launched in 2015. Its an online place where innovators, particularly small entrepreneurs, can present ideas for new technologies for energy-efficient buildings to private and public sector leaders in research and development. In order to meet program objectives, ORNL launched JUMP.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

More and more companies are inviting their employees to participate in company-wide ideation. Companies that do this contribute to overall innovation program health by ensuring a healthy top of the funnel stocked with ideas and allies. Learn more about how to run a successful innovation engagement campaign.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Josh Folk has turned the study and practice of innovation strategy into a multimillion-dollar business, helping millions of users across the world to grow and evolve with IdeaScale. In a recent interview with IdeaMensch, he talked about what it takes to build a strong framework for innovation strategy. Innovation Strategy Attitude.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2017

We’ve dedicated lots of time to thinking about innovators. What their skill sets are, what traits they possess , and what the profile of innovators is globally. And then the profile for the embedded innovation group within an organization: A majority of IdeaScale customers have some level of program maturity (between 1-3 years old).

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Enexis Group finds itself in an industry prime for innovation stagnation; well-established solutions, a workforce often resistant to change, and heavy regulation on procedures and costs, means that spontaneous innovation is not something that can happen easily. Qmarkets : Great – and what inspires you most about innovation?

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IdeaScale

MAY 22, 2018

Last month, leaders in public sector innovation gathered to discuss ways of crowdsourcing new solutions to longstanding problems at IdeaScale’s Open Nation DC. When it comes to crowdsourcing, you have to know what it is that gets people into an ideation community and inspires them. Beware Vanity Metrics. Measure that.

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IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

Companies in every industry are accepting that complacency and failure to innovate are tantamount to negligence. Failing to innovate can cause even a large established business to lose ground to competitors that more fully embrace innovation. It requires more than just saying “Innovation is good.” Innovation Consultant.

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Imaginatik

JULY 14, 2016

We believe innovation is a journey of learning over time. As organizations learn and grow, they naturally mature in their understanding and execution of innovation. A great place to begin is by thinking about the connection between innovation and strategy. Have we defined what successful innovation looks like?

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Planview

AUGUST 6, 2015

Recently, Spigit CTO James Gardner shared some of his expert tips on using crowdsourcing software to build your innovation pipeline. Here’s what we learned. But according to Gardner, you should be wary of staunching the flow too soon — especially if backing off on ideation is a result of feeling overwhelmed.

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Planview

JULY 24, 2015

This week, Corey Glickman, the Global Lead of Rapid Design & Visualization at Capgemini, joined the Spigit team to discuss how and why Capgemini is crowdsourcing innovation to power their $14B business. We’re not restricting ourselves to using crowdsourcing in the sense of a [specific] project,” says Ian Palmer, Senior Manager.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

In a fast-paced corporate environment where there are many expectations and a steady stream of work, how (and more importantly) why, would you carve out time to contribute to your company’s new ideation platform? Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives. What Works?

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IdeaScale

JUNE 6, 2018

But this entire process reminded me of the importance of diversity in ideation. A lot of innovators wonder where to get new ideas, but a whole new body of research is emerging about how organizations with higher levels of diversity report higher returns, new revenue growth, and more. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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Planview

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Crowdsourcing solutions gives us the best chance of driving real, lasting change — in fact, 85% of the 2014 Best Global Brands have used crowdsourcing in the last ten years. Be a Part of the Crowdsourcing Solution. Watch the video below to learn more, or click here to share your sustainability solutions with Unilever.

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IdeaScale

JULY 28, 2022

Coordinating brainstorming sessions and innovation work can require a substantial amount of creativity. These web-focused brainstorming innovation tools will allow you and your team to put together more ideas and collaborate smoothly regardless of distance. Here are some tools to inspire and help you overcome barriers to innovation.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 6, 2016

When organizations talk about innovation, they are referring to generating bright ideas. But innovation is not the Idea; it’s more than that. Ideation is a necessary step in the innovation process , but it’s only one step. In the Ideate stage, you’re collecting ideas from your source community.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 2, 2017

It included crowdsourcing , SaaS , cloud-based , B2B , ideate and the big one: INNOVATION. Could these terms I’d learned to love and believe in be merely empty promises? It turns out, not many people know much about crowdsourcing, because they hated the term but loved the real-world stories. It’s customizable.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

Is your organization centralized or decentralized when it comes to innovation? In a company where innovation is centralized, a specific department is tasked with innovating for the entire organization. However, the model can be successful if a team of innovation ambassadors and coaches are in place.

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Planview

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Engaging the “crowd” at scale in your innovation initiative has been proven to fundamentally transform companies. In fact, Gartner recently named crowdsourcing as the most effective independent discipline that CIOs can adopt to drive digital transformation. The advantages of crowdsourced innovation can’t be ignored.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Enexis Group find themselves in an industry prime for innovation stagnation; well-established solutions, a workforce often resistant to change, and heavy regulation on procedures and costs, means that spontaneous innovation is not something that can happen easily. Qmarkets : Great – and what inspires you most about innovation?

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

We all know that women play a crucial role in innovation , but it’s great to see it take center stage this year at Open Nation as these women talk about some of the most intricate and exciting challenges and solutions when it comes to crowdsourced innovation. Innovation you can eat. Take-Something-Home Workshops.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Implementation is a challenge shared by all innovation managers. 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. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 18, 2020

Although we are inevitably seeing the cancellation of business gatherings and events, along with increasingly severe “social distancing” restrictions concerning movement and the sharing of public spaces, this doesn’t mean that innovation at your company needs to be stifled.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

In a fast-paced corporate environment where there are many expectations and a steady stream of work, how (and more importantly) why, would you carve out time to contribute to your company’s new ideation platform? Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives. What Works?

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