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The Wisdom of Crowds

IdeaScale

While reading, I was reflecting on our own software, specifically which stages satisfy all five of these criteria. What immediately stood out to me was that the Ideate stage, which is by far the most frequently used stage by our customers, actually doesn’t, specifically the voting portion. This satisfies all five.

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16 Best Free Online Brainstorming Tools in 2022

IdeaScale

Start with this excellent video by Sprouts, an online organization dedicated to learning, science, and ideation. It discusses how to leverage innovation tools and create the right environment, encouraging employees to speak up and share ideas. As it is browser-based, there’s no installation of client software necessary.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. We covered the topic of an innovation portfolio and how to best manage it, so we won’t go into too much detail here. And this can be done in organizations of all sizes.

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BIG Ideas: How ICL Built a Billion Dollar Innovation Accelerator

Qmarkets

Powered by Qmarkets’ idea management solution Q-ideate , BIG gathers and implements ideas sourced by over 13,000 ICL employees around the world. What can ICL’s approach to crowdsourcing tell us about how to launch a successful idea management program? By the end of 2022, ICL had received almost 5,000 ideas from its employees.

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The AI Advantage: Supercharge Your Design Thinking Techniques

Leapfrogging

It involves five key stages—empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test—which help teams to approach complex problems in a user-centric way. Ideate : During the Ideate stage, designers are ready to start generating ideas. The concept is also characterized by its human-centered core.

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How to Run a Virtual Design Thinking Project with Remote Teams

InnovationTraining.org

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. There’s no question that teams are capable of great things when working remotely, and there is no shortage of project management tools, virtual whiteboards and prototyping software out there to help. Use mobile devices. Be visual!

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Turn Ideas Into Outcomes: A Framework for Maturing Your Innovation Portfolio

Innov8rs

Ideation on its own isn’t enough to drive innovation outcomes—and could even be a waste of resources if not governed properly. Gartner has found that business leaders underfund transformational projects by ~33% due to ineffective innovation project evaluation methods. Here’s how to get started. But what happens next?