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Engaging People in Innovation

IdeaScale

Engaging people in innovation is at the heart of what we do at IdeaScale. We asked some of our top crowd innovators for their advice on how to increase engagement in IdeaScale communities and this is what they said: “Keep People at the Center. Remember to optimise other channels to drive further engagement.

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Assess Your Innovation Program

Planview

Either your organization is innovating or it’s getting swallowed up by the competition. That’s why having an effective innovation program is so important to stay afloat. The challenge for many program leaders and their innovation programs comes down to their level of involvement in the idea implementation process.

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Innovation Management: 3 Tips for Igniting Valuable Ideas

Planview

What does innovation management mean to you? Does it mean gathering ideas or does it mean building a culture of engagement? You need ideas to be innovative, but you need an innovation culture to continually source the most valuable ideas. But we are innovative—right? Reframe Innovation as Engagement.

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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.

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9 Ways to Engage Your Crowd

Planview

As an innovation practitioner, ensuring that program leaders can motivate people to participate in their innovation programs is something I spend quite a lot of time thinking about. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that crowdsourced innovation is extremely effective.

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3 Tips for Measuring the Impact of Your Innovation Platform

Planview

When it comes to measuring direct financial value, start by asking yourself: Did the innovation program produce any breakthrough ideas that were brought to market? As a bonus, softer metrics can be reported on easily, as well as early, in the life of your innovation program. Did the productivity solutions reduce costs?

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Hackathons – 3 tips for getting started quickly

Imaginatik

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.

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