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How Do Your Employees Feel about Your Innovation Strategies?

IdeaScale

Run a satisfaction survey that includes a net promoter score (NPS) as another measure of engagement. You can also devise other surveys or questionnaires for employees to answer that will reveal how they feel about your organization’s innovation strategy and whether they feel their contributions are important.

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6 Building Blocks for Innovation Department Success

IdeaScale

Nearly 80 percent of executives surveyed by The Boston Consulting Group’s tenth global survey on innovation considered innovation to be either the most important priority at their company or in the top three. Allocating specific times for team members to work on ideas and projects promotes actual results.

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Implementing Open Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital

Qmarkets

After that, I decided to chart a different course by exploring my other interests and developing my creative side, which I expressed by founding an interior design and workspace strategy firm in 2010. Hackathons: Organizing events where external developers, designers, and innovators come together to solve specific challenges.

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Idea Crowdsourcing at MARTA: Encouraging Innovation in the Public Sector

Qmarkets

As part of that effort, in 2020 MARTA started to use Qmarkets’ idea management platform to gather ideas from both inside and outside the organization, in order to drive their public sector innovations. Setting Off on an Idea Management Journey Q: Hi Lyle, thanks for joining us. Were there many people to convince?

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What is an Innovation Maturity Assessment and How Can You Create One?

IdeaScale

This is generally found through a number of tools, including one-on-one interviews, broad anonymous surveys, focus groups and group interviews inside and outside the organization, and assessment of existing data, such as customer feedback. There should also be flexibility built into the design of these steps.

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Idea Crowdsourcing at MARTA: Encouraging Innovation in the Public Sector

Qmarkets

As part of that effort, in 2020 MARTA started to use Qmarkets’ idea management platform to gather ideas from both inside and outside the organization, in order to drive their public sector innovations. Setting Off on an Idea Management Journey Q: Hi Lyle, thanks for joining us. Were there many people to convince?

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Gartner Research Insights: 5 Innovation Hacks to Boost your Digital Return

Qmarkets

Recently, Gartner released a presentation, "The 5 Most Effective, Least Used Digital Innovation Hacks" 1 outlining the results of a survey performed, asking CIOs regarding their best practices for innovation and came back with some surprising results. In the 1950s corporate R&D departments began to take over this role.

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