Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

In practice, other types of innovation, such as business models, processes, services, channels, brand, and customer engagement continue to be largely overlooked. By ignoring other types of innovation, they are: Drastically restricting their capacity to create profitable growth. Engaging the staff.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In most companies, we have small, dedicated innovation teams of five to 10 people trying to take on this Herculean task of growing a business through innovation. They are reliant on engaging others, focusing on their specialized areas to hand over their time to innovation. We are fragmenting much within innovation.

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Planview

JANUARY 6, 2016

Here are a few things the team at Progressive is really, really good at: (1) creating one of the most iconic brand mascots to ever hit the insurance scene; (2) leading the charge in industry breakthroughs, like data-driven driving services; (3) developing awesome new products, services, and processes with crowdsourced innovation.

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IdeaScale

MAY 22, 2018

Last month, leaders in public sector innovation gathered to discuss ways of crowdsourcing new solutions to longstanding problems at IdeaScale’s Open Nation DC. To learn more about public sector innovation, you can view the presentation recordings and download the slide decks on our Open Nation DC resources page.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 23, 2020

We've just finished the 11th Annual Innovate Carolina conference, and since this is the year of COVID we held a virtual conference rather than our traditional in person event. I've long believed in the concept of diversity and what a strong and diverse team can bring to an innovation program.

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Imaginatik

JUNE 19, 2015

Now, corporations are lining up to use them as a means of developing ideas and driving engagement around innovation programs. In fact, several audience members from our recent 8 programs of engagement webinar expressed hesitation about hackathons. Here’s an example from this month – just one of many. Set a date.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

In practice, other types of innovation, such as business models, processes, services, channels, brand, and customer engagement continue to be largely overlooked. By ignoring other types of innovation, they are: Drastically restricting their capacity to create profitable growth. Engaging the staff.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 28, 2016

City of Calgary—Best Engagement Strategy. The City of Calgary is the winner of the Best Engagement Strategy for their myCityInnovation campaign, an internal program which is part of the broader City innovation program Civic Innovation YYC. What We Learned.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 6, 2017

Last week I attended an interesting program co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina's health care innovation program and AARP. The program was set up to bring together people who had an interest in solving problems relating to prescription drug use.

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Planview

MAY 21, 2019

Although Siemens has an extremely robust R&D department, they needed a platform that various internal business units could use for their individual innovation programs as well as one that could easily engage non-employees in a coherent manner. “We Siemens is continuing to use Spigit for internal innovation challenges.

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CREATORS

MARCH 19, 2020

Engaging the organization’s employees from various Business Units (BU) in innovation efforts is a great challenge, but also a key to achieving cultural transformation. In my previous blogpost, I focused on systematic approaches to engaging Business Units in the innovation mission.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

In the second part of this article we will share how we helped Barenbrug – a leading agriculture company based in the Netherlands – to implement an innovation program with the Qmarkets tool. Innovation Exploration vs Exploitation. KPI’s linked to innovation for (middle) managers and understanding of exploration activities.

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Planview

MARCH 1, 2018

We had the opportunity to chat with Jeff George, VP, Americas R&D at Campbell Soup Company, who leads the company’s innovation program. In preparation for Ignite, we wanted to explore some of the lessons George has learned running Campbell’s innovation efforts as well as give you a sneak peek at what he’ll present on stage.

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

This year, we celebrated our client’s success in several categories, including: Best Employee Engagement. New Program of the Year. Let’s take a closer look at the winners, their stories, and key learnings from each company. Best Employee Engagement. The award for Best Employee Engagement went to Pfizer!

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

This year, we celebrated our client’s success in several categories, including: Best Employee Engagement. New Program of the Year. Let’s take a closer look at the winners, their stories, and key learnings from each company. Best Employee Engagement. The award for Best Employee Engagement went to Pfizer!

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

You won't get results from your innovation programs, processes and projects if the fundamentals are lacking. And it's your role as innovation leader, for your company as a whole, or for your department or region, to get them right. Join this Learning Lab. From Innovation Theater To Growth Engine. Innov8rs |.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

It's not even that failure leads to learning. The type of experiment and the degree of fidelity of the experiment really depends on what your learning objective is. If you're trying to learn if somebody likes your messaging, you can do split testing or a landing page design. You're trying to get your stakeholders engaged, right?

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

Does it matter if our customers don’t use the word innovative but are completely bowled over by the solutions we create for them? If we increase employee engagement, increase retention, are able to recruit the best next generation of talent, etc. This is not merely about testing ideas but also about fostering learning.

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Be-novative

APRIL 1, 2020

This is the time for any organization to involve people to think together and share ideas, engage and progress collaboratively?—?even Joining a virtual session needs more energy and engagement from the participants. It makes it harder for people to listen and keep being engaged. Reach out to the support team before the event.

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Be-novative

APRIL 1, 2020

This is the time for any organization to involve people to think together and share ideas, engage and progress collaboratively?—?even Joining a virtual session needs more energy and engagement from the participants. It makes it harder for people to listen and keep being engaged. Reach out to the support team before the event.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

In our next article we will share how we helped Barenbrug – a leading agriculture company based in the Netherlands – to implement an innovation program with the Qmarkets tool. Innovation Exploration vs Exploitation But first, we will explain the difference between exploration and exploitation. What has happened here?

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Planview

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Recently, we had an opportunity to catch up with Chris Morris, Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Herbalife, who will be sharing his insights at Spigit’s Ignite conference on May 1st and 2nd. Spigit: Are there any trends in innovation/technology you’re excited about exploring more in 2018? Non-Spigit related.

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CREATORS

JULY 6, 2017

At the same time, you also may not be ready to dedicate major resources to innovation, so big actions are infeasible. Typical innovation tools for this level concentrate on companies’ PR efforts, hackathons, sponsorship of innovation communities, sponsorship of conferences, organizing events for startups etc. Experiment!

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

It’s been shown that innovation and creativity projects are a great way to engage and retain high performers at a time when incumbent organizations need them most – especially applicable to Gen Yers. Measure Learnings, Not Dollars. What we’re looking to obtain at this point is validated learnings.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

They are utilizing omnichannel and digital communication mediums to engage their customers and offer them what they want. Plus, they can utilize predictive analytics to learn about the intentions of each customer and predict their future needs. Customer Centric Approach. Conclusion.

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Planview

MARCH 24, 2016

It’s been shown that innovation and creativity projects are a great way to engage and retain high performers at a time when incumbent organizations need them most – especially applicable to Gen Yers. Measure Learnings, Not Dollars. What we’re looking to obtain at this point is validated learnings.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 9, 2017

They are utilizing omnichannel and digital communication mediums to engage their customers and offer them what they want. Plus, they can utilize predictive analytics to learn about the intentions of each customer and predict their future needs. Customer Centric Approach. Conclusion.

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Matthew May

JUNE 26, 2015

It was an annual event, affectionately referred to as the Great Egg-Drop Challenge. The whole school gathered for the event. In the end, the Gremlin strategy was extremely effective in enabling the Pathfinder team to learn how to ferret out and deal with uncertainties in a way that positively neutralized disruptive forces.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

One of the key issues in innovation management is figuring out how to frame these important ideas in ways that make sense to managers – finding the right story, metaphor or phrase. Co-Innovation and startup engagement. Another way is to “outsource” exploration through external engagement with startups.

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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

These are two divergent events, but their outcomes can be surprisingly similar. It is possible to seek innovative success in collaboration rather than competition and from humans rather than data. In this culture, project managers , innovation officers , intrapreneurs , and engaged employees work collaboratively to meet their goals.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Recent research has confirmed successfully disrupting as well as outperforming companies to be significantly more engaged in business model innovation. These communities stimulate social engagement around the product through participation in forums, sharing, collaboration or even user-driven innovation by co-creating new products.

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ITONICS

APRIL 15, 2019

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