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3 Tips for Measuring the Impact of Your Innovation Platform

Planview

“Crowdsourced innovation” —the process of inspiring, collecting, and accelerating ideas from the “crowd,” such as your employees, partners, and customers, at scale—has proven to be incredibly effective. From the start, program managers should be thinking about direct financial value.

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Why corporate innovation is harder than a startup

Jeffrey Phillips

Failure in a funded project in a corporation is typically judged rather harshly, and over the last 3 to 4 decades with outsourcing, rightsizing, cost reductions, six sigma and more, we've trained a management cadre to dislike change, risk and uncertainty. So any new idea is often called into question, and closely examined for risk.

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9 Ways to Get Ideas Brewing with Instant Coffee

Planview

We created Instant Coffee to help facilitate better idea generation — whether you’re a C-level executive thinking through your company’s next big move, or an individual contributor trying to collaboratively solve a problem with your team. Check out this blog for helpful tips for facilitating a successful Lean Coffee virtually.

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The Creative Process And How Idea Management Solutions Fit In

Qmarkets

Having geeky friends as a teenager and freelancing for an idea generation company, I was always surrounded with people full of ideas. Part of my studies in product development and innovation management at ETH, was a reflection on what creativity was and how it could be understood and handled. The principles of creativity.

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Design Thinking the People-centric Modern Organization

Tullio Siragusa

Prototyping, Testing, and Iterating: The iteration process tests and refines the ideas generated during the ideation phase, while prototyping helps push the process of delivering a tangible outcome forward. Generally, the ideation phase is handled by project managers or engineers.

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The Creative Process And How Idea Management Solutions Fit In

Qmarkets

Having geeky friends as a teenager and freelancing for an idea generation company, I was always surrounded with people full of ideas. Part of my studies in product development and innovation management at ETH, was a reflection on what creativity was and how it could be understood and handled. The principles of creativity.

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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Innovation and Bridging the Generational Divide

Idea to Value

Innovation requires more than just idea generation. After all, innovation cannot exist in a vacuum; but rather, an organization must build a culture of innovation to catalyze and sustain the creation of new ideas and then ultimately actually implement the ideas that make it out of the initial starting gate.

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