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Webinar: How United Way Served Community Needs During the COVID-19 Crisis

IdeaScale

By December 2020, nearly 40% of those surveyed by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities had difficulty meeting household expenses, 21% of those surveyed who rented were at least one month behind on rent, and 10% of those surveyed didn’t have enough to eat. It teamed up with a major consulting firm to design a social innovation challenge.

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How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. Yet while there are no guarantees, the “dark matter” policy discussed above ensures that there are no failures.

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Here Are Eight Innovation Awards to Watch and Follow for Inspiration

IdeaScale

Categories include diversity and inclusion, public policy advocacy, workforce development, and event innovation. The International Innovation Awards are designed to end the year with a look at innovation everywhere, not just in a handful of places. To learn how we can help, request a demo ! It starts with the right platform.

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Top 8 Digital Workplace Trends for 2019

Acuvate

Chatbots are designed to deliver a conversational user experience in the business applications with a minimum learning curve. IT leaders must enforce periodical checks on security policies to protect user privacy and comply with policy regulations. Schedule a demo now. Digital workplace trend #6. And, so much more!

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What Are Some Examples of Crowdsourcing Innovation?

IdeaScale

Ultimately, they settled on three, including one called SHARE , designed to address both internal needs and customer feedback with an interactive platform easily accessible across the globe. To learn more, request a demo ! The solution used crowdsourcing in two unique ways.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

We could design warfighting tactics based on knowing the tactics of our opponent. We could design and manufacture the best systems. designed to execute repeatable processes and procedures to deliver solutions that meet the requirements of the overall guidance. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts.

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How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Steve Blank

They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. In reality for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed a process from start to deployment. There’s a much better way.

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