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Lessons Learned About Innovation Communications from the City of Calgary

IdeaScale

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. In this case, the City of Calgary was a leader in generating engagement with their innovation program. In this way, all ideators knew that their ideas were valued.

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How to Manage Innovation Exploration With the Support of an Ideation Platform

Qmarkets

As such, more and more of these companies are thinking about how to better structure their innovation exploration activities, often through an ideation platform. Not only is continuous innovation necessary for survival, but also constant refinement and recalibration of existing business models. What has happened here?

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How to Manage Innovation Exploration With the Support of an Ideation Platform

Qmarkets

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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Top Innovation Activities for Individuals and Teams to Try

InnovationTraining.org

Businesses and organizations who want to stay ahead must evolve and learn from and with their customers to create better solutions to life’s challenges. The use of innovation activities is one way to accomplish these goals, spur creativity, and drive business or organizational growth. HCD is a popular innovation activity.

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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. When it comes to crowdsourcing, you have to know what it is that gets people into an ideation community and inspires them. Are you retaining more employees? Measure that.

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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. This was a full scale, public event sponsored by their Media Labs CTO.

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Spigit Launches Fall Innovation Forum Series to Create a Gathering Place for the World’s Innovation Leaders

Planview

IBM , Pepperdine University , Pfizer , MetLife and more join us to share their experiences and key learnings around innovation. Today we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Spigit’s Fall Innovation Forum series! Here are the upcoming events this Fall: October 24: LA, California – hosted with Pepperdine University.