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Organize innovation to fit your strategy & culture.

Leapfrogging

They force crowdsourcing into their top-down decision-making cultures. These individuals, (technologists, consumer insights experts, marketers, manufacturing specialists, etc.) Magazine, a leading keynote speaker and the founder of Praxie.com. The post Organize innovation to fit your strategy & culture.

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Five Must-Attend Innovation & Tech Conferences in 2017

IdeaScale

Gartner is well-known for its work in analyzing markets and predicting the life-cycles, or lack thereof, of various innovative industries. Magazine brings together industry leaders in a conference that’s a mix of an informal networking event, vacation, and casual innovation discussion. Huntington Beach, June 17th to 21st.

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Charities – the sleeping giants of innovation

Wazoku

I’ve recently been exploring the charity sector, to gauge interest in crowdsourcing ideas from their employees, partners or customers, as I was aware of several “innovation teams” being setup or already existing within many of the major charities. yet it seems that crowdsourcing isn’t. My first stage of research was Google (of course).

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Schindler Announces Successful Nationwide Deployment of Qmarkets Idea Management Platform

Qmarkets

This success can be attributed to the promotional efforts of Schindler, who employed a variety of promotional techniques to encourage participation, including newsletters, magazines, flyers, and SMS texts. Marketing Manager, Qmarkets. About Qmarkets. For press inquiries please contact: Mr. Elliott Wilkins. 44 7469171016

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Strategic Planning Workshop Ideas – The Brainzooming Process Is 10 Years Old!

BrainZooming

We started dabbling within our market planning team to help our internal clients generate new ideas, too. After several cycles, it became apparent our marketing managers couldn’t translate the ideas into effective plans. magazine about a consultant selling two-day business planning , we saw a possibility.

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Guest Blog Post: How to plan for creativity; The power of divergent and convergent ideation

Betterific

At Betterific, we faciliatate both convergent (thru our crowdsourced innovation challenges ) and divergent thinking (thru our concept refinement and crowdselect challenges ). For instance, you can wander through hardware or antique stores, new magazines or conferences, random images or analogies from nature.

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Disruptive Energy.

100%Open

While working as a journalist on World Coal magazine in the 1990s I was interviewing the president of a very large Canadian coal company who told me that in 10 years they would not be mining coal. Bulb is a new energy supplier in the UK that’s disrupting the energy supplier market. He said yes, we printed.