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? Knock Your Innovation Program Out of the Park

Business Innovation Brief Submitted Articles

Giving your employees a stake in the game, having them take part in the action and witnessing in real-time the fruits of their labor is rewarding and empowering for all parties involved in the innovation and creative problem-solving lifecycle. Leadership is critical for innovation to be a home run hit however.

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Crowdsourcing and Smart City Innovation: A Winning Combination

Qmarkets

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. Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the smart cities initiative could be what makes the difference.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Innovation in Healthcare

IdeaScale

However, many organizations struggle to move forward due to a lack of strategy and a lack of employee and leadership buy-in. Here are jut a few ways to address those issues as you work on overcoming the barriers to innovation in healthcare: Establish a Strategy. Make Innovation a Shared Responsibility.

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The Four Types of Innovation Metrics

Imaginatik

For the vast majority of companies, innovation is either an occasional or newfound discipline. Making it into a repeatable, scalable set of practices tends to highlight organizational roadblocks and politics – even with deft, careful leadership. The conversation about innovation metrics can be polarizing. Incremental revenues.

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IM Award Lessons: Improving Employee Experience Through Innovation

IdeaScale

Every year, IdeaScale hosts the Innovation Management Awards to award organizations who have demonstrated a level of sophistication in their innovation strategy that has had a measurable impact on their business. We have great senior leadership support – our CEO actually initiated this program.

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Ignite Spotlight: An Interview with Pepperdine University’s Shawn Herrera

Planview

Herrera is Pepperdine Graziadio Business School’s Director of Corporate Partnerships and is also an Adjunct Professor teaching sought after courses on leadership and innovation. He’s also one of the many phenomenal speakers at Ignite who will be sharing their experience running an innovation program.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s Ignite 2018 Conference

Planview

Crowdsourced innovation programs are maturing. They’re now putting more focus on the impact their programs are having on their company’s bottom line. If you can’t do this, you risk leadership pulling the plug. Frequent communication is an absolute must for successful crowdsourced innovation programs.