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Please, we need a different Innovation narrative

Paul Hobcraft

Our innovation processes stay islands of knowledge stubbornly not flowing across organizations, informing others and giving the right levels of insights, support, or collaboration needed. Innovation software management continues to be sold piecemeal, so often just bolted onto the other parts already in place, not being optimized.

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Key Takeaways from April’s Open Innovation Summit

IdeaScale

Encourage your team to think of even the most disruptive technology as simply a tool that can be used to engage with challenges in new ways, and to ignore the hype. Encourage your team to broaden their horizons and to constantly update their knowledge base and skill set so when an opportunity comes along, they can grab it.

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How to Turn your Employee Engagement Problem into a Continuous Improvement Solution

Qmarkets

According to a recent poll by Gallup , only 15% of employees worldwide are engaged in their jobs. – where levels are the highest in the world – the rate for engagement has been stuck at around 30% for nearly a decade, growing from 29% in 2011 to 31% in 2017. It’s all in the Numbers – Quantifying Employee Engagement.

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How to Overcome Employee Engagement Barriers With a Continuous Improvement Program

Qmarkets

According to a recent poll by Gallup , only 15% of employees worldwide are engaged in their jobs. – where levels are the highest in the world – the rate for engagement has been stuck at around 30% for nearly a decade, growing from 29% in 2011 to 31% in 2017. The Danger of Employee Disengagement. In Canada and the U.S.

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Imaginatik Charts the True Path-to-Value for Breakthrough and Continuous Innovation Management

Imaginatik

BOSTON – March 1, 2018 – Today Imaginatik, the #1 ranked leader in corporate innovation management according to Forrester Research, announced a major update to its industry-leading Innovation Central software aimed at enabling enterprises to maximize their ROI from breakthrough and continuous innovation programs. About Imaginatik.

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What the Cannabis Business Needs in Order to Thrive

Business and Tech

Whether it’s your customer relationship management tool, your menu and orders management tool, your point of sale, or your logistics software, being able to not have to worry about the software just working, or potentially running afoul of complex compliance requirements, is key.

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30-Year Perspective: Seven Traits of Successful Digital Marketers

Brunner

Thirty years ago, I was working as a software engineer and a systems analyst for an IT consulting company. Much of what we did was custom software development in nature and usually operations related. For instance, an early project I was given was to develop an inventory control software system for a consumer packaged goods company.