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Idea Generation Process: The Various Approaches to Gathering & Implementing Employee Ideas

Qmarkets

Employee ideas are the backbone of any corporate innovation initiative, and therefore a strong idea generation process that can be scaled across your organization is key. However, there are various approaches for each step of the process which can be chosen based on what is best for your business and employees.

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Innovation is essential to unlock all parts of the energy transition.

Paul Hobcraft

It is having a well-established innovation process or a clear, transparent one that can engage, communicate and build shared understanding. That sense of collective identity has a greater chance of generating innovative solutions. Innovation should be as close to the core as research, science or engineering.

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Book Review - Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou

Jeffrey Phillips

For example, on page 37, talking about the transition at Samsung, the author writes about a "painstaking, decades-long process" of building an innovation engine. Lots of time, because companies aren't just creating a new product, but a new process, and changing culture along the way.

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6 Lessons from Our 2018 Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

IdeaScale recently announced the winners of our 2018 Innovation Management Awards. Queensland Police Service was recognized for Best Engagement Strategy, Covia won the award for Best Innovation Process, and the Transportation Research Board won for Best Innovation. Workflows Can Help Tremendously when Prioritizing Ideas.

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Is Your Innovation Problem Really a Strategy Problem?

Tim Kastelle

I was running a workshop with a multinational engineering firm when I ran into a perfect example of an air sandwich, which illustrates this point. The chart below shows the responses to a questionnaire I administered called the Innovation Value Chain survey , and it demonstrates what an air sandwich looks like in practice.

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Fractional Chief Innovation Officer (CINO)

Gregg Fraley

The Fortune 1,000 work innovation process like mad. However, elaborate innovation frameworks slow things down. Prototyping — including: design, graphic arts, and concept writing are skills that go beyond engineering. New ideas need to integrate product development with marketing and sales as well.

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Is Your Innovation Problem Really a Strategy Problem?

Tim Kastelle

I was running a workshop with a multinational engineering firm when I ran into a perfect example of an air sandwich, which illustrates this point. The chart below shows the responses to a questionnaire I administered called the Innovation Value Chain survey , and it demonstrates what an air sandwich looks like in practice.

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