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Idea Generation Process: The Various Approaches to Gathering & Implementing Employee Ideas

Qmarkets

Employee ideas are the backbone of any corporate innovation initiative, and therefore a strong idea generation process that can be scaled across your organization is key. If your idea challenge is very detailed and asks many specific questions, you will get less ideas, but they will be of higher quality.

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Idea Generation Process: The Various Approaches to Gathering & Implementing Employee Ideas

Qmarkets

Employee ideas are the backbone of any corporate innovation initiative, and therefore a strong idea generation process that can be scaled across your organization is key. If your idea challenge is very detailed and asks many specific questions, you will get less ideas, but they will be of higher quality.

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Assess Your Innovation Program

Planview

Only about one-quarter of innovation teams are involved in implementing ideas in every challenge they run. Additionally, innovation leaders struggle to master full lifecycle idea management —the process of moving great ideas into execution. Assess Your Innovation Management Program to Improve.

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Technology Scouting Software for Open Innovation

eZassi

eZassi’s “cyber scouting” feature is unique since many idea management software products do not offer a full software solution. For example, Mindjet, the creators of MindManager do mind mapping and idea generation very well but don’t offer a feature to “find” the innovators that need to participate.

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Ideating at Enexis – Driving Operational Innovation in Dutch Energy Sector

Qmarkets

Read on to learn more about this fascinating initiative and understand how you might be able to utilize an idea management platform to deliver similar results for your company. How have you handled innovation and specifically idea management in the past? But this wasn’t engaging and employees were left dissatisfied.

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Enexis Interview: Navigating Operational Innovation in an Environment Ripe for Innovation Stagnation

Qmarkets

How have you handled innovation and specifically idea management in the past? Our employees have the best ideas for how to improve their own work and needed a dedicated tool to handle this process. We now ask for their ideas and let them discuss, and grow their ideas in a transparent and constructive manner.

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Ideating at Enexis – Driving Operational Innovation in Dutch Energy Sector

Qmarkets

How have you handled innovation and specifically idea management in the past? Michiel: Originally we had a post-box where ideas were dropped and an anonymous guy in HQ would say yes or no – mostly no. But this wasn’t engaging and employees were left dissatisfied.