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.
IdeaScale
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
The company owns online Capella University and Strayer University, as well as non-degree programs schools such as DevMountain, Hackbright Academy, and Sophia Learning. So let’s learn more about their program. How to innovate around racial equality in education?
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Business Innovation Brief Submitted Articles
JULY 15, 2020
Innovation, for all intents and purposes, plays a similar function in the corporate setting because it engages your workforce in the same way sports do, as employees are brought together to participate in something bigger than themselves. Innovation is not all that different to a team sport.
HYPE Innovation
AUGUST 4, 2020
This blog post is part of a series on successfully managing open innovation programs. Open Innovation
Speaker: Paul Sloane, Director, Destination Innovation
Paul Sloane is a well-known author and speaker on open innovation. In this session, Paul takes us through examples of successful open innovation programs to explore the breadth of what open innovation can be for organizations and the value it can bring. This was a great session you don’t want to miss.
InnovationManagement
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Crowdsourcing ideas has a number of different virtues: from improving the likelihood that you’ll source disruptive ideas to lowering the overall program costs of running an innovation program… but there are some other cultural benefits to a crowdsourced innovation program.
Planview
APRIL 4, 2019
Such disruption, impacting companies regardless of industry, is fueling the sense of urgency behind innovation. Either your organization is innovating or it’s getting swallowed up by the competition. That’s why having an effective innovation program is so important to stay afloat. The challenge for many program leaders and their innovation programs comes down to their level of involvement in the idea implementation process.
IdeaScale
APRIL 10, 2019
Those figures indicate increased volatility, but they also indicate that innovation is behind the churn. The fact is that companies that don’t continuously innovate risk irrelevance because innovation is going to happen, whether major corporations participate or not. Lack of great ideas is not the problem when it comes to innovation; management of innovation is. Core, Adjacent, and Transformational Innovations. Best Practice crowdsourcing Innovation
IdeaScale
APRIL 5, 2022
Innovation strategy requires a plan for scaling innovation. Building scaling processes into your innovation platform, like those created by IdeaScale, makes it easier to move pilot projects and department-scale approaches to a broader scope. Why Scaling Innovation Matters.
InnovationManagement
MARCH 19, 2017
An in-house innovation program is becoming a common fixture in the most competitive organizations. However, in a recessed economy, these research & development programs can sometimes get eliminated, because they struggle to prove or articulate value. Strategies communications crowdsourcing engagement failure innovation metrics moderation Success
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. What are the benefits of crowdsourcing? Ideas are the life blood of innovation. What are the stages of innovation?
Planview
JANUARY 6, 2016
Here are a few things the team at Progressive is really, really good at: (1) creating one of the most iconic brand mascots to ever hit the insurance scene; (2) leading the charge in industry breakthroughs, like data-driven driving services; (3) developing awesome new products, services, and processes with crowdsourced innovation. This year, enterprise leaders can learn a great deal from the insurance giant about crowdsourcing innovation successfully.
Planview
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
You’ve done the groundwork for creating a successful innovation program. You’ve learned what mistakes to avoid , and even moved forward with adopting innovation management software like Spigit to enable innovation in a way that’s valuable and repeatable. If you’re still struggling to make the connection between ideas and outcomes, here are 4 things you can do to invigorate your innovation program.
IdeaScale
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. Building An Inclusive Innovation Practice.
Qmarkets
SEPTEMBER 8, 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 Correra, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. As part of this, I work closely with the innovation team which focuses on bringing new and challenging ideas to the company.
Planview
APRIL 4, 2018
The main premise of the article was to shed a light on an important aspect of ideation and innovation programs: impact. The challenge I see is the inability to move beyond generating ideas to generating impact — and for innovation departments to be able to track their ideas from incubation to impact.” At the end of the day, innovation leaders are measured on how impactful their innovation programs are on the business. Crowdsourcing
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. From vehicle manufacturer, Polaris, leveraging its employees’ creativity to out-innovate the likes of Harley Davidson, to the UNHCR changing the lives of millions of refugees through crowdsourcing ideas.
Planview
JUNE 12, 2018
Measuring the success of an innovation program is a critical step in determining the impact it has on a company’s bottom line. But how do you know if your innovation program is delivering value? It was moderated by Spigit’s VP of Innovation Strategy, Maggie Riad, who spends a lot of her time speaking with clients about measuring the success of their programs. Define clear, specific innovation program goals. Crowdsourcing
Planview
APRIL 11, 2019
Polaris Industries’ crowdsourcing case study is inspiring people both internally and externally—and their story is still relevant today. We’re proud to have an innovative culture. Through their Ideate Innovation program, which the team uses to surface and develop ideas and turn them into award-winning products. It was always obvious to leaders at Polaris that there were untapped opportunities to crowdsource groundbreaking ideas from employees across the company.
Planview
AUGUST 6, 2015
Recently, Spigit CTO James Gardner shared some of his expert tips on using crowdsourcing software to build your innovation pipeline. Using a crowdsourcing platform will often remove the majority of the legwork.”. Innovation is so often tied to never-before-seen ideas and inventions that it can be difficult to pull back from the grand picture and look for ways to innovate on a smaller scale. Crowdsourcing Innovation = Diverse Ideas and Predictable Outcomes.
Planview
JUNE 29, 2018
Every year Spigit conducts its “ State of Crowdsourced Innovation ” customer study to better understand how our customers build and manage their innovation programs. One of the key findings from this research is that a significant shift occurs at around the three-year mark of having an innovation program. This shift centers around measurement of program value. What ideas do we have in our innovation pipeline? Crowdsourcing
Planview
JUNE 8, 2017
When establishing an innovation program, business leaders often struggle with forecasting the potential economic impact. To address this, Spigit commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct an independent study examining the value customers receive from implementing an innovation program that leverages Spigit’s enterprise innovation management software. To quantify the complete value of innovation program that leverages Spigit’s. Crowdsourcing
Imaginatik
JULY 29, 2016
Well, in terms of innovation valuation, you can and you should. Investors are requiring enterprises to be more transparent about their commitment to ongoing innovation in their capital expenditures in order to attract longer-term investment. The question then arises, how can an enterprise provide greater investor confidence from a range of speculative innovation investments with greater certainty ? Here is where crowdsourcing comes in.
IdeaScale
JULY 5, 2017
Last year Gartner published an article entitled “ The 5 Most Effective, Least Used Digital Innovation Hacks ” which listed crowdsourcing, differentiated funding, differentiated metrics, startup innovation, and formal innovation management. Of course, crowdsourcing and innovation management are closely related, but not everyone understands the potential benefits of crowdsourcing and innovation management.
IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
The result was recognized by Home Depot as one of the most innovative products of the year, that was featured on HGTV and in Popular Mechanics. Stearns is humble about his success and quick to mention other team members who helped bring this innovation to market. He says this product and the company’s innovation program have been key parts of his career. Laszlo Gyorffy is president of EDG, an IdeaScale partner that specializes in innovation strategy.
Planview
JANUARY 30, 2018
One popular New Year’s Resolution is getting fit – so here at Spigit, we wanted to share with you a series about how to get “Innovation Fit” in 2018 to ensure your innovation program is set up for success. When we think about ideation as a business discipline , there’s one topic that’s important to talk about when it comes to the value a company derives from an innovation program: scale. All great things to target in your innovation program as well.
Planview
JULY 28, 2015
You might have heard that crowdsourcing innovation is really hard to manage. Or that the business value won’t show itself right away, so it’s not worth the time and effort it takes to start a crowd-based innovation program. Here are 4 crowdsourcing myths you’ve probably heard — and why you shouldn’t let them stop you from giving it a try. Crowdsourcing Ideas Leads to Mob Mentality. Innovations Only Come from Product Experts.
Planview
OCTOBER 12, 2015
Crowdsourcing innovation works best when the crowd knows exactly what issue they’re trying to address. Asked and Answered: Crucial Crowdsourcing Questions. The post The Language of Crowdsourcing: 5 Questions to Ask appeared first on Spigit. “We want top-line growth and to protect our bottom-line, and I need your ideas on how to make that happen!”.
IdeaScale
APRIL 6, 2021
Crowdsourcing can influence innovation. According to a 2017 survey, 86% of companies who incorporate crowdsourcing in the workplace cite employee engagement as a top priority. Which stages will prove most intrinsic to program success?
Daniel Burrus
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
In 2000, I predicted that we would see innovation as a service in the near future. The open invitation to join a collaborative innovation program that involves training the image recognition of the robotic astronaut by generating 3D models of objects that it would interact with on the EVA spacewalk, including , and of the International Space Station has captured everyone’s imagination. Use #Crowdsourcing to identify new ideas when you don't have all of the answers.
Planview
APRIL 29, 2019
If you are reading this blog, you know that ideation and engaging the power of the crowd is at the heart of any innovation program. Planview Spigit is conducting the fourth annual State of Crowdsourced Innovation Management survey and study. The purpose of the survey is to gather data that highlights industry insights around ideation and crowdsourced innovation programs. The 2018 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Findings.
InnovationManagement
MARCH 22, 2021
Even the most fledgling innovation program have a research component. Innovation research guides decision making, problem statements, idea generation, solution sourcing, and several other points in the innovation lifecycle. Uncategorized Crowdsourcing surveys
Planview
AUGUST 27, 2018
Acquisitions aren’t the only way to capture innovation. Capturing innovation from the crowd is now streamlined enough to become a part of any company’s survival kit.”. While acquisitions will always play a role in capturing innovation and staying ahead, it’s not the end all be all. We’ve seen example after example of companies successfully leveraging crowdsourcing technology to capture innovation at scale. Crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing
Qmarkets
APRIL 24, 2017
I like to argue (for example, here ) that one of the major reasons crowdsourcing has not yet become a mainstream innovation tool is a paralyzing uncertainty over the question which technical or business problem can be successfully solved by using this approach. In this piece, I want to shed some light on the issue by proposing a simple model that matches crowdsourcing to specific types of innovation. Sustaining innovations. Efficiency innovations.
Qmarkets
DECEMBER 6, 2019
The evolving trend of smart city innovation is one that governments should be wholeheartedly embracing, but as with many government initiatives, seems to be having a hard time getting off the ground.
Planview
DECEMBER 9, 2015
Spigit CTO James Gardner, who this week is presenting at the Chief Innovation Officer Summit in NYC , knows a thing or two about how to be successful at crowdsourcing innovation. With an extensive background in building innovation programs from the ground up, Dr. Gardner is adamant that a primary problem existing for business leaders — especially those that are savvy enough to fear becoming disconnected — is the motive behind wanting to engage employees.
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. One of those brands is Unilever , one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products that launched its crowdsourced innovation program , Unilever Foundry, last year, to make sustainable living commonplace by collaborating with innovators.
Planview
OCTOBER 15, 2015
They’ve all conceptualized cutting-edge, one-of-a-kind vehicles built for power and speed, featuring elegant aerodynamic properties and the latest in automobile innovation. But only Spigit customer Polaris has crowdsourcing to thank for the unique design of the Slingshot, their recently-released three-wheel motorcycle that’s been compared to every superhero transport in the books. Crowdsourcing a Best-Seller at Polaris.
Planview
MAY 21, 2019
As a worldwide leader in resource-saving technologies like offshore wind turbine construction and combined-cycle turbines for power generation, a major provider of power transmission solutions, and a pioneer in infrastructure solutions and automation, Siemens considers innovation “its lifeblood.” In fact, the 170-year-old company produces an average of 38 inventions per day, a number powered by their crowdsourcing solutions. Crowdsourcing Customer Experience
IdeaScale
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
One of the reasons that people love a crowdsourced innovation program is that it levels the playing field for ideas. Crowdsourced innovation allows you to transparently prove and communicate the value of an idea no matter where it comes from. At the 2018 Open Nation, Queensland Police spoke to this very challenge and told us that it is possible to flatten an organization for innovative ideas, but maintain chain of command when necessary.
Planview
OCTOBER 21, 2015
In the open innovation space, one regularly leads to the other. Read these three in-depth industry reports to find out the new rules of the collaborative economy, why the United States is leading the way in turning customer feedback into innovative products, and what challenges are soon to crop up in crowdsourcing. Companies Leverage Open Innovation Better than China. that are taking innovation initiatives to heart.
Planview
OCTOBER 29, 2015
But bad business habits can throw a major wrench in innovation before it even has a chance to get off the ground. Here are 10 things you might be doing without thinking that are killing your innovation efforts right now. You want people to contribute great ideas to your innovation program, and that’s exciting. Herd mentality is very real, and presents a major threat to innovation. Crowdsourcing is an incredibly effective way to make good ideas great.
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