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Creating a Culture of Innovation

Innovation in Practice

Rewarding employees for innovation, both the results of as well as efforts to become more innovative. See innovation as a competitive weapon. Innovative companies use innovation to differentiate themselves by: Conducting regular idea generation workshops within business units.

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Why Measuring the Value of Your Innovation Program from Day One is Important

Planview

Every year Spigit conducts its “ State of Crowdsourced Innovation ” customer study to better understand how our customers build and manage their innovation programs. One of the key findings from this research is that a significant shift occurs at around the three-year mark of having an innovation program.

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3 Tips for Measuring the Impact of Your Innovation Platform

Planview

When it comes to measuring direct financial value, start by asking yourself: Did the innovation program produce any breakthrough ideas that were brought to market? As a bonus, softer metrics can be reported on easily, as well as early, in the life of your innovation program.

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Keeping Your Innovation Momentum

Innovation in Practice

At some point in your journey to drive innovation, you’ll want to take a deep breath and ask – what happened here? I’ve seen too many innovation programs get off to a fast start only to fizzle out later. Here are some ideas. Develop a way to track and manage ideas generated from innovation workshops.

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The Goal: Ignite Innovative Culture

eZassi

We propose you ask these twelve strategic planning questions and read through the suggested resolutions for energizing your organization’s innovative culture. This is a month-by-month prompt to spark the innovative spirit of your company and illuminate a brighter innovation portfolio this year. This is an ideaGenerator.”

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Spigit Client Awards: And the Winner Is…

Planview

The award for Best Employee Engagement looks at clients who have created a robust reward and recognition program, and have increased employee engagement and participation across their innovation campaigns and challenges. Having that visibility throughout the company has enabled Pfizer’s small innovation team to do more with less.

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Spigit Client Awards: And the Winner Is…

Planview

The award for Best Employee Engagement looks at clients who have created a robust reward and recognition program, and have increased employee engagement and participation across their innovation campaigns and challenges. Having that visibility throughout the company has enabled Pfizer’s small innovation team to do more with less.