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How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. It’s a role in government that demands constant innovation. Small Business Administration.

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Lessons Learned About Innovation Communications from the City of Calgary

IdeaScale

If you’ve been following IdeaScale’s Innovation Management Awards , you know that this year saw some really thrilling innovation come from some unexpected places. In fact, government is sometimes seen as one of the least innovative industries , but some of our best stories this year came from the government.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

In 2007, I co-founded Innovation Framework Technologies (IFT) in order to close this gap, to offer a combination of best practices and best software embedded in solutions that companies can actually and successfully use. Paris Innovation Leader Breakfast Tour. How to Tackle the Problem. Quantity does not equal quality.

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The Metrics of Public Sector Innovation

IdeaScale

Last month, leaders in public sector innovation gathered to discuss ways of crowdsourcing new solutions to longstanding problems at IdeaScale’s Open Nation DC. This was a point that was made over and over and it’s perhaps even more true when we’re talking about nonprofit or government work. They measured every part of that campaign.

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Top Themes from Open Nation DC

IdeaScale

We’ve been hosting a company-wide Open Nation event in Berkeley for three years now. Contreras dived into the importance of goal-setting and quantifiable metrics to any innovation program. Instead, focus on “actionable metrics,” which are “leading indicators of achieving the aligned objectives of your innovation program.”.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

In 2007, I co-founded Innovation Framework Technologies (IFT) in order to close this gap, to offer a combination of best practices and best software embedded in solutions that companies can actually and successfully use. How to Tackle the Problem. Quantity does not equal quality.

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What Dubai gets right about innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

This is my third trip to Dubai, and I come away consistently amazed at what the people and the government are doing in Dubai. I've had the good fortune to lead innovation programs and workshops in a wide range of countries and regions, from Western Europe to South Africa to South America and in many locations in Asia.