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Innovation Department Best Practices: A Talk with Peter Berger

IdeaScale

By separating innovation departments from other, traditional business departments, it’s easier to provide innovators with the autonomy they need to conceive of great ideas and to bring them to market. Ideation: “What’s Our Unfair Advantage?”. The Components of a Productive Innovation Department.

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What Kind of Company is a Good Fit for Crowdsourcing?

IdeaScale

After 69 years of growth, Dick’s is a great company ripe for crowdsourcing and they launched their first company-wide ideation platform last year. There are a few Dick’s employees with the word “Innovation” in their title and even more employees that participated in this product innovation campaign.

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A Collaborative Product Development Stage Gate

IdeaScale

In order to manage a 500% increase in the volume of ideas, the Sustainable Development Business Innovation (SDBI) group instituted a unique workflow for each campaign (there are four major campaigns in the ideation community) and each workflow included several levels of review.

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What Kind of Company is a Good Fit for Crowdsourcing?

IdeaScale

After 69 years of growth, Dick’s is a great company ripe for crowdsourcing and they launched their first company-wide ideation platform last year. There are a few Dick’s employees with the word “Innovation” in their title and even more employees that participated in this product innovation campaign.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.

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How to Start Innovation with an Idea

Innovation Excellence

In 1995, the idea for “downloading the entire web onto computers” came to Google inventor Larry Page in a dream when he was 23 years old. The Idea Route Google, currently a company with a market capitalization of $ 500 billion, started as just an idea. He claimed, “I spent the middle of that night.

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Innovation Strategy – Dancing Elephants, Orthodoxies, and Cognitive Biases

BrainZooming

The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Related posts Innovation Strategy?