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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

We need to understand successful innovation actually touches all aspects of a business, by contributing to improving business processes, identifying new, often imaginative, ways to reduce costs, building out existing business models into new directions and value and discovering new ways and positioning into markets.

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Innovation Program Recipe for Success: The Three Essential Ingredients

Qmarkets

Along the way we have seen a wide variety of approaches and formats, from small-scale hackathons with a few hundred participants, to long term innovation programs involving tens of thousands of users. The definition of an innovation program can sometimes differ, so before we dive in let’s clarify what we mean when we use this term.

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Introducing LaunchPad, Strategic Education, Inc.’s (SEI) Latest Innovation Program

IdeaScale

For example, an email address to submit your ideas. For example, academic advisors had marketing ideas. For example, they may know the idea goes to IT, but who in IT decides whether it is feasible? Here are some examples of the targeted campaigns we have run over the last year. Who do they go to with their ideas?

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Employee Engagement Propels Innovation

Planview

Most companies will agree that innovation is critical to sustaining growth and remaining competitive. Creating a culture of innovation is seen by most business leaders as the number one way to drive innovation for the business. However, for this culture to exist, employee engagement is imperative.

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How to Achieve Repeatable Innovation: A Chat with Spotless

IdeaScale

Spotless uses a detailed, repeatable process with innovation to identify ideas and guide corporate culture toward innovation. Here are some lessons Spotless drew from its experience as the company created a repeatable innovation process. What did innovation mean for the company? What made sense for the culture?

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The Top 4 Innovation Culture Best Practices from the World’s Most Successful Companies

Qmarkets

These companies have hardwired innovation into their framework and have ingrained innovation into their organization’s culture, but how exactly do you define a ‘culture of innovation’? However, providing a formal process alone won’t create a culture of innovation – management must still be the driver.

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Five Creative Ways to Use Customer and Employee Suggestions Boxes

IdeaScale

For example, you might invite them to fill out a quick survey after they make their suggestion. For example, if you’ve got a lot of tight-knit offices, the offices with the highest number of useful suggestions could win lunch, making it a friendly competition between them. And indeed, raffles and the like draw attention.