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Culture Jolt #21 - Align engagement, not obligation

Values Centered Innovation

Jolt #21: Align engagement, not obligation. Engagement expands. Engagement is freely “showing up” to fulfill our personal sense of purpose and make a positive contribution, feeling deeply satisfied. Engagement is typical of “communities” where we work together on things that are personally and collectively meaningful.

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10 Things We’ve Learned From Deploying 400+ Enterprise Innovation Programs

PlanBox Innovation

Introduction Innovation isn’t just a buzzword in the business world; it’s the lifeblood of growth and sustainability. At Planbox, our extensive journey through the deployment of over 400 enterprise innovation programs has offered us a front-row seat to the transformative power of innovation.

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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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Culture: Innovation’s Biggest Challenge

IdeaScale

We asked our customers what their number one priority was for the coming year and the leading priority was: culture. Culture is the starting point for the success of all innovation programs and it is also a project that is never complete. Here are just a few things it might impact: Employee Engagement.

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The Hidden Culture Benefits of Crowdsourced Innovation

InnovationManagement

Crowdsourcing ideas has a number of different virtues: from improving the likelihood that you’ll source disruptive ideas to lowering the overall program costs of running an innovation program… but there are some other cultural benefits to a crowdsourced innovation program.

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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.