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2021 IdeaScale Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

One of the largest employee-owned companies in North America, Graybar offers wholesale electrical, communication, and data networking products and has always thrived on people-first innovation. To that end, the company launched the NEXT Innovation Program, a name chosen from employee feedback.

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Grow Like Flo in 2016: Taking the Lead from Progressive’s Crowdsourced Innovation Program

Planview

Here are a few things the team at Progressive is really, really good at: (1) creating one of the most iconic brand mascots to ever hit the insurance scene; (2) leading the charge in industry breakthroughs, like data-driven driving services; (3) developing awesome new products, services, and processes with crowdsourced innovation.

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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. They launched a full internal multi-channel marketing strategy.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

T o overcome this challenge, and as innovation became a top priority, most companies have created diversified corporate innovation programs to generate new innovation projects. Paris Innovation Leader Breakfast Tour. How to Tackle the Problem. Quantity does not equal quality.

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30 SME Grown-Ups signed up for a super-innovation program

Innovation 360 Group

This initiative will be possible through the strategic facilitation of innovation capabilities, competencies, CSR, gender equality and diversity. Together they will also provide individual analysis, feedback, coaching and training hence providing the companies with the necessary expertise to further develop their innovation capabilities.

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The Gremlin Strategy, or How to Ward Off Disruption

Matthew May

One of my all-time favorite stories is the one he told about the Pathfinder team’s approach to a “don’t fail” strategy. It was an annual event, affectionately referred to as the Great Egg-Drop Challenge. The whole school gathered for the event. Enter what I call the “Gremlin” strategy. So why not beat them to the punch?

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Beyond Flavor of the Month: Managing Idea Challenges as a Repeatable Program

Imaginatik

Here’s the problem – idea challenges are traditionally treated as one-time events. Though they often deliver some success, organizations often struggle to take the challenge beyond the initial project, and into a complete innovation program. Align the idea challenges with this business goals and strategies.