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Is Your Innovation Program Changing Employee Sentiment?

IdeaScale

Many people launch an innovation community as a way of improving their employee engagement scores. What is it that your community comes to your innovation program for? Learn more about measuring innovation sentiment, by downloading our complimentary infographic on the subject.

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5 Innovation Engagement Best Practices

IdeaScale

Companies that do this contribute to overall innovation program health by ensuring a healthy top of the funnel stocked with ideas and allies. Not every innovation program has developed the communications skill set necessary to engage a global workforce or customer base in sharing ideas, developing ideas, and collaborating.

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Lessons Learned About Innovation Communications from the City of Calgary

IdeaScale

In fact, government is sometimes seen as one of the least innovative industries , but some of our best stories this year came from the government. In this case, the City of Calgary was a leader in generating engagement with their innovation program. But how did they do it?

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Align Innovation Incentives to Goals

IdeaScale

A lot of crowdsourced innovation programs will tell you to offer incentives to your community of participants in order to drive engagement – but sometimes that’s a challenge for organization either because of budget restrictions or company regulations. The post Align Innovation Incentives to Goals appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Rating Your Innovation Program: Vanity Metrics vs. True Impact

Moves the Needle

How do you measure the success of your innovation program? In my experience guiding corporate innovators, I have found that even the most well-intentioned teams aren’t evaluating true impact—instead, they deliver vanity metrics, which offer, at best, a measurement of partial engagement.

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The Nonprofit Innovation Advantage: Purpose

IdeaScale

This type of purpose can help employees feel engaged, stay longer, work more effectively, and more. This is actually a key advantage that nonprofits have when it comes to innovation. It’s less likely that a nonprofit will be distracted by irrelevant or off-topic ideas and will instead focus on impactful innovation.

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A Look Back at Crowdsourced Innovation in 2020

IdeaScale

According to a 2017 survey, 86% of companies who incorporate crowdsourcing in the workplace cite employee engagement as a top priority. Data gathered from IdeaScale’s innovation communities provides benchmarks and insights for innovators creating new crowdsourced innovation programs. What the Numbers Tell Us.