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Choose Your Own Innovation Adventure Infographic

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Overview : Innovators face a number of challenges, as detailed in our choose-your-own-adventure infographic , including leadership buy-in, resources, and team-building. Leadership. The first step in building an innovation culture in any organization is to develop the idea of innovation as a priority.

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Webinar: How The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Recognizes Emerging Innovators

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Overview: Join us Wednesday, August 18th, 2021, at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT on Zoom for a webinar with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) innovation team. In that context, the NRC requires powerful innovation to meet its brief. What Is the NRC? And the agency’s staff took to the challenge. The Greenhouse.

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Top Themes from Open Nation DC

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Contreras dived into the importance of goal-setting and quantifiable metrics to any innovation program. Instead, focus on “actionable metrics,” which are “leading indicators of achieving the aligned objectives of your innovation program.”. Together, they encompass the ePolicyWorks crowdsourcing team. Coast Guard.

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Five Components of a Repeatable Innovation Portfolio

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Creating a repeatable innovation portfolio helps you plan more efficiently, scale resources, and gain insight for the growth of your innovation program. There are five key elements of a repeatable innovation portfolio: Opportunity Identification and Campaign Creation. Idea Collection and Inspiration. Proposal Generation.

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Four Ways to Refine Your Innovation Process

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Listening is key to innovation. Just like innovation itself, an innovation program is constantly being shaped by the environment around it over time. A good innovation program absorbs new information and ideas constantly. Innovation is about more than applause. So how do you refine it? Take a Breath.

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What Does an Innovator Look Like?

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And their key frustrations are senior leadership resistent to change and a lack of budget. 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). The post What Does an Innovator Look Like?

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Four Ways to Improve Your Creative Confidence

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So, your company is investing in innovation, but do you lack the confidence to be creative? A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. Improve innovation leadership. Scale innovation programs.