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Qmarkets Partners with Wellspring to Offer a Data-Enriched Open Innovation Platform to Enterprise Clients

Qmarkets

The partnership and integration allows Qmarkets clients to access hundreds of millions of innovation intelligence data points directly within the Qmarkets platform. As a result, Qmarkets is now able to offer clients a data-enriched end-to-end open innovation solution.

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Qmarkets Partners with Wellspring to Offer a Data-Enriched Open Innovation Platform to Enterprise Clients

Qmarkets

The partnership and integration allows Qmarkets clients to access hundreds of millions of innovation intelligence data points directly within the Qmarkets platform. As a result, Qmarkets is now able to offer clients a data-enriched end-to-end open innovation solution.

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DigitalBasel Launches Open Innovation Challenge on Qmarkets Platform

Qmarkets

DigitalBasel and Qmarkets have combined forces to demonstrate the power of crowdsourcing and collaborative innovation. Registration to participate in the challenge is open to anyone via the DigitalBasel website.

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Qmarkets and HeroX Join Forces to Deliver Comprehensive Open Innovation Solution

Qmarkets

Tel-Aviv, Israel — June 10, 2021 – Qmarkets, the award-winning supplier of innovation management software , has today announced its partnership with HeroX , the world’s leading platform for crowdsourced idea competitions.

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Open Innovation: Convincing the Decision Makers

eZassi

Open Innovation Shouldn’t Be a Hard Sell, But It Is. At Ezassi, we believe whole-heartedly in the importance of innovation to progress and the survival of businesses. That being said, we also fully recognize that convincing decision makers to go forward with innovation initiatives can be a hard sell. This means that it falls on employees to make the case for innovation, which can be a thin line to walk. About Innovation Leader.

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Qmarkets Partners with hpo management consulting to Strengthen DACH Enterprise Innovation Management Offering

Qmarkets

Qmarkets has launched a partnership with Swiss-based strategy and innovation consultancy hpo to strengthen strategic innovation activities in medium and large enterprises in the DACH region.

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Qmarkets Partners with hpo management consulting to Strengthen DACH Enterprise Innovation Management Offering

Qmarkets

Qmarkets has launched a partnership with Swiss-based strategy and innovation consultancy hpo to strengthen strategic innovation activities in medium and large enterprises in the DACH region.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

Open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use of innovation, respectively. Open innovation (OI) uses a mix of approaches, thereby affording higher responsiveness and flexibility while trying to grow beyond its core business. The free flow, in and out, of ideas and IP promotes innovative ecosystems. Why does open innovation work?

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Three Flavours of Open Innovation: breaking down institutional boundaries through the X-Factor, Speed Dating, and iOT

Imaginatik

A great deal of activity has been happening under the topic of ‘open innovation’, however we have found very different initiatives launched by our clients that challenge a common definition of the term. From this cross-client perspective we understand a broad set of practices and ambitions for open innovation, which we can begin to place in patterns of approach or flavours. We have just peeked at three different flavours of open innovation.

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Change Management and Open Innovation: Know the Pillars of Digital Transformation

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In this article, you’ll see how this as well as open innovation are at the base of Digital Transformation. Open Innovation and Change Management: the challenge of change in organizational culture. Open Innovation is inherently a proactive and optimistic strategy.

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Technology Scouting Software for Open Innovation

eZassi

Consumer demands have never been higher, and large organization who don’t innovate will eventually die (think of Blockbuster or Xerox). Large organizations like these can no longer exclusively rely on the internal R&D team or employee base to produce the product innovation and insights that will keep them in the game. Enterprises are increasingly turning to open innovation for their product development strategy. Open Innovation Technology

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Enterprise Innovation Management Research Report

eZassi

CIMdata Publishes Enterprise Innovation Management Solutions Landscape — Connecting the Dots. eZassi Participates in CIMdata’s Enterprise Innovation Management Solutions Landscape Report Findings. CIMdata recently published this report, eZassi participated in the report findings, providing insight, commentary, discovery and suggestions to aide in guiding enterprise organizations with connecting the dots of enterprise innovation management (EIM).

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Qmarkets and HeroX Join Forces to Deliver Comprehensive Open Innovation Solution

Qmarkets

Qmarkets adds capability to plug into the HeroX Global Innovator Crowd Tel-Aviv, Israel — June 10, 2021 – Qmarkets, the award-winning supplier of innovation management software , has today announced its partnership with HeroX , the world’s leading platform for crowdsourced idea competitions.

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Wazoku acquires US open innovation leader InnoCentive and raises additional £1.25M to support global growth

Wazoku

Idea management scaleup creates unique proposition for crowdsourcing, idea management and open innovation on one platform London, United Kingdom. Wazoku now provides the world’s biggest innovation community and broadest innovation offering.

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Rules of enterprise innovation

hackerearth

We know from our history that while promotions may win quarters, innovation wins decades.”. But for an innovation program to be efficient and successful, there are certain guidelines or best practices an organization needs to abide by. Include every employee in the process of innovation. Tip: Conducting internal engagement activities such as hackathon helps. For sustained innovation, all these activities have to run like clockwork. Embrace Open Innovation.

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The Goal: Ignite Innovative Culture

eZassi

This year is full of potential for innovative growth in your organization. Ezassi is your partner in measurable and achievable business goals with the help of our innovation software and services. We propose you ask these twelve strategic planning questions and read through the suggested resolutions for energizing your organization’s innovative culture. 12 Resolutions to Ignite a Culture of Innovation. Assess the Innovation Pipeline.

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Charleston Police Department Launches Digital Citizen Engagement Platform

Qmarkets

Community engagement has been a major challenge across the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a client base that includes large companies such as Ford, Intel, and PMI, Qmarkets is regarded as a leader in the field of idea and innovation management.

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3 Open Innovation Reports You Need to Read Right Now

Planview

In the open innovation space, one regularly leads to the other. Read these three in-depth industry reports to find out the new rules of the collaborative economy, why the United States is leading the way in turning customer feedback into innovative products, and what challenges are soon to crop up in crowdsourcing. Companies Leverage Open Innovation Better than China. that are taking innovation initiatives to heart.

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5 Ideation Objectives

eZassi

Top 5 Ideation Objectives for Innovation [Infographic]. Build your Innovation Portfolio on the best ideas captured through Ideation. To focus on the best and “throw the bad ones away” a strategic, competent company needs an Innovation Resource Management tool.

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Innovation Leadership

eZassi

The Key to Driving Enterprise Innovation? Strategy and Alignment Starting with Corporate Leadership Most companies today consider innovation one of their top-five strategic objectives. The post Innovation Leadership appeared first on Ezassi.

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Qmarkets Fall Product Release 2019: Making Innovation Engagement Easy

Qmarkets

Discover how these new features and developments – both big and small – can have a dramatic impact on helping your organization deliver repeatable, value-driving innovations. Engaging Smart Recommendations. We want your users to spend more time engaging with the system in ways that make a bigger impact. These engaging project management features should make it easier than ever to ‘put the wheels in motion’ and make sure your valuable ideas don’t go to waste.

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Qmarkets Fall Product Release 2019: Making Innovation Engagement Easy

Qmarkets

Discover how these new features and developments – both big and small – can have a dramatic impact on helping your organization deliver repeatable, value-driving innovations. Engaging Smart Recommendations. We want your users to spend more time engaging with the system in ways that make a bigger impact. These engaging project management features should make it easier than ever to ‘put the wheels in motion’ and make sure your valuable ideas don’t go to waste.

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Qmarkets Product Release Fall 2019: Making Innovation Engagement Easy…

Qmarkets

Discover how these new features and developments – both big and small – can have a dramatic impact on helping your organization deliver repeatable, value-driving innovations. Engaging Smart Recommendations. We want your users to spend more time engaging with the system in ways that make a bigger impact. These engaging project management features should make it easier than ever to ‘put the wheels in motion’ and make sure your valuable ideas don’t go to waste.

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Qmarkets Product Release Fall 2019: Making Innovation Engagement Easy…

Qmarkets

Discover how these new features and developments – both big and small – can have a dramatic impact on helping your organization deliver repeatable, value-driving innovations. Engaging Smart Recommendations. When you have an innovation management system that generates hundreds or even thousands of ideas, one of the most critical functions of the tool is its ability to automatically and efficiently ‘filter the gold from the gravel’.

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Evaluating Crowdsourcing – offering a bright future?

Paul Hobcraft

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions. All in all, if applied carefully it can provide you with a leading edge of innovation knowledge and insight. 6) it can create breakthrough innovation.

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Are you a Direction Setter? How to Bring the Future into Focus

IdeaScale

As direction setters, leaders ensure their people have a clear direction that frames innovation priorities. As a direction setter, you must go beyond the data and tell a compelling story about future potential that engages people more deeply and inspires them to bring their creative best. They also secure funding for these priorities and make sure their innovators know resources are available for solutions that move the business in the intended direction.

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Evaluating Crowdsourcing – offering a bright future?

Paul Hobcraft

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions. All in all, if applied carefully it can provide you a leading edge of innovation knowledge and insight. 6) it can create breakthrough innovation.

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Technology Scouting Excellence 2017 Speaker Lineup

eZassi

The speaker lineup includes: Denise Fletcher , Chief Innovation Officer. Ezassi (former Chief Innovation Officer, Xerox). Issac Veinbergs , Head of External Innovation, Neurosciences. Brian Bronk , Head of External Innovation, Rare Diseases, Strategy and Business Development. Ron Lewis , Director of Engineering, Innovation & Integration. Dean Mai , External Innovation and Strategic Technology Investments. Director / Manager, Open Innovation.

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What is Innovation Software?

eZassi

What is Innovation Software? Innovation Software Helps Businesses Cultivate and Implement Innovation — Faster. Innovation software is a fairly recent development that was made possible by the rise in popularity of both cloud computing and social sharing platforms. The main goal of this software is to help enterprise level businesses generate and evaluate ideas so that innovation can be cultivated and implemented. How is Innovation Software Used?

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The chance to think differently about Ecosystems for Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Thinking about ecosystems certainly allows us to go out of our normal scope of invention, innovation and being creative. It allows you to search and build on others specialization that “greater” innovation. Ecosystems built around specific platform designs are the future of innovation that takes designs and solutions into a new realm of opportunity built on collaborative engagement and common missions.

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Principles of open innovation

hackerearth

There are all examples of open innovation (OI) at its best. Popularized by Henry Chesbrough,“Open Innovation” term refers to the broad concepts of leveraging external sources of technology and innovation to drive internal growth. As opposed to traditional closed models where companies use primarily internal resources to drive innovation, in the newer open models, knowledge crosses an organization’s boundary for commercialization in new or existing markets.

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Ideation Collaboration Software – Did you know your innovation software is an amazing collaboration system?

eZassi

We often find that our prospects and clients are amazed that our innovation software platform replaces or can replace what they need in an ideation collaboration software, killing three or more birds with one software. Whether you currently use SharePoint, Slack, Basecamp, Jive or other providers, our innovation platform combines and exceeds features offered by these systems and we want to share this discovery with you. Rewards collaborators for engaging.

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Disruptive Solutions Mindset 101

eZassi

Please join us as Denise Fletcher , our Chief Innovation Officer, will be a guest speaker on the Coffee Break with Game-Changers radio show, hosted by Bonnie D. Denise will provide insight from her role as Chief Innovation Officer at Xerox and how Ezassi specializes in developing disruptive technology through a unique set of innovation solutions with a disruptive solutions mindset, ever evolving. Advancing Innovation Management. Innovation Thought Leader.

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Innovation Budget Planning: 10 Key Components

eZassi

As a follow-up to our recent blog on “ What to Include in Your Innovation Budget ” we have created an innovation budget planning components list with 10 key items you should include in your innovation budget. These are items certain to include in an innovation budget and items we’ve recognized, after finalizing our corporate innovation budget, realizing months later that we needed to plan for an expense not included, and then had to find funding.

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Innovation Budget Planning: 10 Key Components

eZassi

As a follow-up to our recent blog on “ What to Include in Your Innovation Budget ” we have created an innovation budget planning list with 10 key components you should include in your innovation budget. These are items certain to include in an innovation budget and items we’ve recognized, after finalizing our corporate innovation budget, realizing months later that we needed to plan for an expense not included, and then had to find funding.

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JAMES GARDNER: How to Succeed at Crowdsourcing Innovation

Planview

Spigit CTO James Gardner, who this week is presenting at the Chief Innovation Officer Summit in NYC , knows a thing or two about how to be successful at crowdsourcing innovation. In a recent piece for Techonomy, James outlines the crucial points for enterprise leaders to keep in mind when turning to the crowd for new ideas on solving business challenges and addressing industry woes. “We must learn how to encourage our employees to want to engage in innovation.

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We Require A Shift of Innovation Management Solution Providers

Paul Hobcraft

There is still a real reluctance that the supplier of innovation software solutions has to change. I think with the recognition that innovation occurs across the whole organization the innovation management (IM) providers have to radically alter their business model or recognize they need to broaden out their target market inside organizations as innovation is occurring in all corners of the organization today.

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CTO James Gardner: “Innovation is an Optional Activity”

Planview

Spigit’s Chief Technology Officer, James Gardner, is no stranger to innovation. But if his start in financial services taught him anything, it’s that crowdsourcing innovation — at major healthcare institutions, financial services providers, and even automobile manufacturers — is the most effective way to discover new ideas and make them a reality. How to Succeed at Crowdsourcing Innovation. “Like innovation itself, the crowd can be complex.

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Can We Have One of These? A Product Innovation Platform

Paul Hobcraft

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today. I have argued we do need to change the way we undertake innovation and its development. A truly open innovation platform.

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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Lean Innovation Management — Making Corporate Innovation Work {{meta.description}}. Source: www.forbes.com/sites/steveblank/2015/06/25/lean-innovation-management-making-corporate-innovation-work/ .

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. From our point of view, all of the issues pinned down at that time have gained significant importance, are being intensively debated and can still be considered cutting-edge for companies to stay ahead in managing innovation. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. Open and social co-creation.

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Jumping to a fresh cycle of innovation design

Paul Hobcraft

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. In my opinion, it needs to be based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options. Where is innovation within this?

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Birthdays, Bicycles and Brevity

100%Open

Open innovation is never easy at the best of times. However it is also terrifying in that it makes it harder to know where to focus your open innovation efforts. Knowledge is actually a highly social and collective enterprise. Effective social skills are essential for any successful open innovators to successfully tap into the wisdom of crowds. So to conclude, open innovation is both an art and a science.

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