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

Qmarkets

Asking the Right Questions Before the digital age, ideas were mostly shared through physical suggestion boxes. Ideation is most successful when it is focused on the challenges that your organization is facing and/or around your business goals and strategy. Expert Review With an idea management tool, you can set up an ‘expert review’.

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

Qmarkets

Asking the Right Questions Before the digital age, ideas were mostly shared through physical suggestion boxes. Ideation is most successful when it is focused on the challenges that your organization is facing and/or around your business goals and strategy. Expert Review With an idea management tool, you can set up an ‘expert review’.

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Seven Ways to Prepare for Effective Brainstorming

Gregg Fraley

There is not enough mental preparation done with participants before brainstorming/idea generation sessions. Nor is there enough attention paid to planning and facilitating the exercises and stimulus in the session itself. Start thinking of idea generation as a project that takes a few weeks, not a one day session.

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GFi Innovation Public Training Course

Gregg Fraley

In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations. Innovation team leaders and project managers learn what it takes to keep cycles spinning from year to year.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Their ideation process, testing and implementation led to a successful outcome which reduced the turnaround time from 50 minutes to 35 minutes without any additional investments. Here’s where an idea management software can again help you. So, instead of taking a top-down approach they went for the bottom-up one.

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Culture of Innovation Lessons from CSAA

Planview

In fact, Spigit customers have been tremendously successful at creating cultures of innovation by focusing on company-wide ideation among employees. Then they gave employees an opportunity to generate ideas that solve business problems, both large and small. To combat that, CSAA expects managers to implement ideas their team generates.

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Idea Generation in Business: Eight Techniques to Supercharge Creativity

Qmarkets

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Your manager has asked you to come up with a few quick wins and, under pressure, your creative well has suddenly run dry.