Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries. Integrate external technologies seamlessly to enhance internal capabilities and stay ahead in the market.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 16, 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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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Innovation team members have to deal with the needs of users, finances, and marketing all at once. In this blog, we will recommend strategies for choosing the best features for your innovation roadmap along with the do’s and don’ts of feature prioritization. . Innovation management is a tough job. Kano Model. Customer Journey.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

We’re partnering up to help you drive your innovation strategy further. Ideascale and Betterific announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

We’re partnering up to help you drive your innovation strategy further. Ideascale and Betteriffic announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Are you looking for ways to take your innovation strategy to the next level in 2020? Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

So market research was invented. While no method is perfect and companies continued to miss key shifts in customer wants and needs, it’s undeniable that well-executed market research has been very effective at letting companies see over the wall that separates them from their customers and develop innovative new products and services.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In fact, one of its most successful ideas came from Brian Stearns, a guy in marketing. He was a brand marketing manager at TTi. He leveraged his own expertise to create the company’s first purely social marketing campaign for the mister. Stearns is now director of digital marketing at TTi. It changed his life.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 6, 2017

Environmental, social and governance strategy (ESG) refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a company or business. The overall market for ESG investments has swelled to $8.7 trillion in U.S. assets under management last year, up 33% since 2014, according to the U.S.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

So market research was invented. While no method is perfect and companies continued to miss key shifts in customer wants and needs, it’s undeniable that well-executed market research has been very effective at letting companies see over the wall that separates them from their customers and develop innovative new products and services.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In this blog, we will share the additional ‘innovation assets’ that many companies are yet to include in their business innovation strategy. Benefits of Crowdsourcing Ideas Ideas have a huge amount of potential and can result in a variety of benefits for an organization. Creativity then facilitates out of the box thinking.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 29, 2021

Yet another person says "innovation" and means crowdsourcing and employee engagement systems. In reality, what this leads to is lots of small projects, where many aren't focused on important new opportunities or markets that are vital for the longer term success of the company.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Use what you know about your customer’s needs, competitors, and your changing marketplace to determine where your new strategy for innovation should begin. The most effective strategies for growth will start by pinpointing a significant customer need or pain point and working backward to find the technology that might help.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In this blog, we will share the additional ‘innovation assets’ that many companies are yet to include in their business innovation strategy. Benefits of Crowdsourcing Ideas Ideas have a huge amount of potential and can result in a variety of benefits for an organization. Creativity then facilitates out of the box thinking.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Crowdsourcing Trends 52

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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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A new partnership between Qmarkets and New York-based innovation and venture strategy firm Arable Ventures will provide a specialized innovation solution for enterprises across North America comprising both strategic consultancy services and dedicated software. That’s where we come in.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2023

The pace of change and rise of global winner-take-all competition means that conventional product-market-structure approaches to strategy, as well as core competencies thinking, are difficult to implement in practice and may yield misleading answers.

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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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Planview

APRIL 15, 2024

Crowdsource ideas. Crowdsourcing. You can undertake an extensive, expensive market research exercise for AI use cases that takes eight to 10 weeks. Or you can start building with the user insights you already have to get a capability to market. How to Identify AI Use Cases 1. The best way to get them?

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2017

Recently I had a chance to read a terrific article in the most recent issue of the MIT/Sloan Management review about internal crowdsourcing. Marketing campaign validation. • So some ideas may be off-strategy, or simply too costly. Spigit customers can use the Spigit Marketing Blueprint provided with your subscription.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The Kanban system is a visualization strategy that helps you manage innovative development projects. Through this strategy, you can also develop permanent solutions for fixing some of your organization’s most pressing problems. But how did the Kanban system evolve into the progressive visualization strategy that it is today?

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Together, our combined solution will serve businesses from the very first moment that they begin to define their innovation strategy, right through to that strategy’s execution.” Michael Stilger , co-founder of Qmarkets and SVP of Global Solutions, said: “We’re thrilled to be working together with Capgemini Invent.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

After that, I decided to chart a different course by exploring my other interests and developing my creative side, which I expressed by founding an Interior Design and Workspace strategy firm in 2010. And now you head up Accel IQ Digital… what led you to the decision to set it up?

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Qmarkets

JULY 31, 2023

It will partner up with the C-suite to roadmap the journey, deliver and create value for each of the business functions, and drive strategy cohesiveness across teams. With a network of experienced and reliable partners and specialists, it believes in LEAN, AGILE, and PRAGMATIC strategies. That’s where we come in.

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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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eZassi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Navigating Innovation Management: Implement a Scalable Process and Engaging Platform for Enterprise Ideation and Collaboration Creating Open Innovation Solutions Regardless of your organization’s innovation portfolio size or scope, every business needs a strategy and competitive advantage for growth and technological advancement.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 16, 2019

Recently Jessica Day, Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing & Communications at IdeaScale and Whitney Bernstein, Innovation Strategy and Customer Success of IdeaScale spoke with Australian podcaster Emmanuel Setyawan on the BizTalk with Emmanuel podcast. The Main Ingredient in Crowdsourcing Is the Crowd.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2018

Scenario planning “stress test” current strategies and encourage individuals to challenge assumptions by understanding various perspectives. Focusing on the future can be difficult, but it is worthwhile: companies that manage for the long term outperform their peers with increased revenue, earnings, and market capitalization.”.

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IdeaScale

JULY 11, 2018

This tenet underpins most of crowdsourcing and all open innovation programs. And if this marketer hadn’t shared their idea in a crowdsourcing community, the product team might never have found it. Opening an Adjacent Market in the Financial Sector.

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IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

An innovation strategy is a key business asset, and innovation leadership is no longer nice to have, but necessary. Innovation leadership can make the difference between an innovation strategy that actually produces results and one that languishes on paper. It requires more than just saying “Innovation is good.” Innovation Engineer.

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Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

Cynthia Johnson co-founded the Santa Monica, CA-based marketing agency Bell +Ivy as well as the non-profit WonderKey, which provides tech to foster kids. The real launching point was when we heard from one of our co-founders that she crowdsourced a phone that had video on it for her foster son’s mother so they could facetime.

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Planview

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, Gartner recently named crowdsourcing as the most effective independent discipline that CIOs can adopt to drive digital transformation. The advantages of crowdsourced innovation can’t be ignored. Pitching a crowdsourced innovation program to an executive team is a lot like pitching a startup to a venture capitalist.

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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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Planview

JUNE 28, 2017

internal crowdsourcing. Marketing campaign validation. So some ideas may be off-strategy, or simply too costly. Figure 1: Adapted from “Developing Innovative Solutions Through Internal Crowdsourcing” MIT Sloan Management Review, Summer 2017. how might we improve in-store experience). New product validation.

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100%Open

APRIL 1, 2017

Writing effective questions for a crowdsourcing community is an art as well as a science. Here are 5 top tips that we’ve learned to help create an interesting, engaging, productive and innovative challenge: A Need not a Want – Successful crowdsourcing usually tackles challenges that are both interesting and important to our organisation.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Sivan Leshem joined Qmarkets in 2011 as a project manager, before going on to manage the product delivery department during a period which would see Qmarkets grow into a leader within the idea management market. QM: How does the switch to Qmarkets 10 affect users who are still using Qmarkets’ older crowdsourcing platform?

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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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