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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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

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The spotlight will be on creativity, communication, inspiration, and innovation leadership at Open Nation 2019, IdeaScale’s annual conference set for Oct. This year, focus areas are: Innovation metrics and tracking ROI Gaining leadership buy-in Developing innovation teams. Is your innovation strategy working? Thursday, Oct.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 17, 2016

So in a three-part series I want to set risk in a better strategic and operational framework but to begin with until we address the alignment issue between a firm’s strategy and the linkage of the innovation activities, innovation fails to make the essential boardroom connections. The third is to manage trade-offs.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2019

Leadership in innovation is more than positivity. While creativity is central to any innovation strategy, it takes more than just ideas to be an innovative leader. A truism of innovation strategy is that people want to be heard and understood. To learn more about innovation and leadership, join our newsletter today!

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2023

John Yoo (pictured right) is the Senior Innovation Success Manager of FORVIS’ EDGE team with almost 20 years of experience working in product management, strategy consulting, and chemical engineering. The result was a dedicated idea management platform that crowdsources ideas from 6,500 FORVIS employees around the world.

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HYPE Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2017

Let’s see here: absorptive capacity , superbosses , leadership paradoxes , coping strategies , ecosystems , new school crowdsourcing , lessons from “Grit” , Henry Chesbrough’s work. To me, 2016 was all about sound advice, the search for meaning , and giving you inspiration for your innovation management work.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

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. Here’s how nonprofits can build an innovation strategy that carries them from strength to strength.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 24, 2019

Full integration of partnerships into innovation strategy. Conservative growth is the strategy. Leadership is coming around to the idea of investing in innovation, though mostly it is through safe bets and occasional calculated risks. We invite you to download our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper to learn more.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the smart cities initiative could be what makes the difference. Discover Why an Innovation Management Strategy is Critical for Smart City Infrastructural Projects. At first glance, the term “smart government” appears to be oxymoronic. And no further explanation is needed.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 3, 2018

Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the Smart Cities initiative could be what makes the difference. In order for a Smart City program to be successful, the government's initiative should include: Strategy. At first glance, the term “smart government” appears to be oxymoronic. And no further explanation is needed.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The view offered in this article suggests four pillars to be put into place: 1) A Committed and Engaged Leadership, 2) A Comprehensive Innovation Strategy, 3) A Sustained Mindset Shift and 4) A Comprehensive Tool Kit. Achieving a Committed & Engaged Leadership. Establishing a Comprehensive Innovation Strategy.

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 10, 2016

Idea crowdsourcing is the act when a company outsources the generation of new ideas (e.g. The sourcing of ideas occurs on online idea crowdsourcing platforms that are open to everybody who has access to the Internet and no specific training or expertise is needed. Matt Ridley – When Ideas Have Sex. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

This 50 minute session allowed professionals from Keybank, RWE Energy, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Anthem Healthcare to share their vision for an innovative strategy, process, or idea. On the other hand, organisational excellence has more to do with people, with an excellent leadership, and especially with innovation.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

This 50 minute session allowed professionals from Keybank, RWE Energy, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Anthem Healthcare to share their vision for an innovative strategy, process, or idea. On the other hand, organisational excellence has more to do with people, with an excellent leadership, and especially with innovation.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 29, 2018

The power of collaboration beyond the confines of a conventional organization are leading many to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding innovation – so independent parties work together to design, produce and finance new things. Innovation is significant new strategies and new business models. Innovation is when breakthroughs are made.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2018

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. In fact, you must.

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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. As part of its innovation strategy, the company created a hackathon called AWP Innovation Academy. Assemble teams that encourage mixing and working with new people.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 29, 2017

And our talented group of Innovation Advisors are always ready to respond to questions about crowdsourcing and innovation management. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. From basic to complicated questions our support team is ready to handle it! Maya Angelou.

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Idea to Value

JULY 14, 2016

While many baby boomers are preparing to leave the workforce; organizational leadership at most companies are not prepared to lose them. Likewise, don’t be afraid to crowdsource, via email blasts or group messaging tools, from company retirees. How to Fight the Brain Drain when Baby Boomers Retire.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

As Bill Fischer highlights in his ‘Innovating The iPod’ article; “The goals articulated by the leadership were surprisingly simple, broad yet precise. Businesses can deploy these same principles within their own innovation strategies. This is where IdeaScale can help.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

. “The strength of the Executive Innovation Work Mat as a framing document to provide this leadership dialogue becomes essential for organizations wanting to gain complete organization engagement” Building a compelling business case for an integrated innovation framework. “Will crowdsourcing provide predictable outcomes?

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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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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 25, 2023

What can ICL’s approach to crowdsourcing tell us about how to launch a successful idea management program? Innovation is driven by leadership & accountability: in every business unit, a BIG Champion is appointed, each building their team of BIG Captains that are spread worldwide and serve as innovation leaders on site.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 25, 2016

The emphasis from many of these leading consultancies has been on establishing a clear “thought leadership” approach to underpin their expertise and attract as a ‘go to’ resource. Many of the bigger consulting companies offer a highly valued “thought leadership” with significant research backing this up.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The emphasis has been on establishing a clear “thought leadership” approach to underpin the consulting expertise. Many of the bigger consulting companies highly value their “thought leadership”. Many are presently actively trying to quantify the impact of this thought leadership. But not all thought leadership is equal.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Some of these vendors also have features to accommodate advanced use-cases, such as open innovation crowdsourcing, tech scouting. To ensure that your innovation management system is adopted by your employee base, it’s important to secure leadership buy-in. How much does innovation/idea software cost and what is the pricing structure?

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Planview

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Spigit’s mission and commitment has long been to support our customers as they drive sustained innovation by engaging employees in crowdsourced ideation and managing the entire innovation lifecycle. This acquisition is a significant milestone for Spigit, as it brings additional scale and resources to this mission.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2018

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. This is important because if leadership, CEO for example, has completely bought in and has demonstrated commitment by participating, the rest of the team follows.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 10, 2021

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. So this is a big motivator.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. A central axiom of innovative leadership is the belief that there is always a better way to solve a problem.

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Strategos

JANUARY 26, 2017

Framing innovation challenges is of critical importance when leadership decides to engage their employees in innovation activities. Crowdsourcing ideas is a popular, energizing way to solve a wide range of business problems. Since we leverage the front line workers, we call our version of internal crowdsourcing “front line challenges”.

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eZassi

AUGUST 22, 2022

What hypotheses must be true for these resource allocation strategies to work, and how can we test them most quickly and efficiently? Once your leadership has explored these questions, executives responsible for innovative outcomes should reevaluate resources to achieve the most resilient, calculated risk model for the future.

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Wazoku

MARCH 10, 2017

Crowdsourcing specialist Wazoku secures new funding from Barclays to support further development. Wazoku a UK crowdsourcing company and leading provider of collaborative innovation software, has received new venture debt finance from Barclays of £680,000. Wazoku is a crowdsourcing company headquartered in London. About Wazoku.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 23, 2017

Making it into a repeatable, scalable set of practices tends to highlight organizational roadblocks and politics – even with deft, careful leadership. To unpack which metrics to use when, it’s helpful to categorize them along two dimensions – Inputs vs Outputs, and Operations vs Strategy. Innovation is inherently unknown.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Innovation leaders are faced with a very tough challenge, charged with both driving leadership in the traditional corporate sense, but also with facilitating internal innovation, or intrapreneurship, among their subordinates. A central axiom of innovative leadership is the belief that there is always a better way to solve a problem.

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Leadership Innovation Engagement Examples 49

Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

At its core, the framework is a collection of strategies and tools for finding inventive solutions to difficult problems. However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks.

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