Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Traditionally the Innovation funnel is a stage-gate process that organizations use to define their approach to ideation. However, here at Qmarkets we believe that this is only one part of a greater innovation funnel. Leadership will have goals determined by factors such as revenue, culture, and operational costs etc.,

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. 53% of the innovation programs are focused on leveraging the collective wisdom of employees. Improve innovation leadership. Scale innovation programs.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Traditionally the Innovation funnel is a stage-gate process that organizations use to define their approach to ideation. In our experience, your innovation funnel needs to include ways to constantly supply ideation by generating a steady flow of inspiration to do so.

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Planview

MAY 17, 2018

Crowdsourced innovation programs are maturing. Companies are moving beyond optimizing for ideation. They’re now putting more focus on the impact their programs are having on their company’s bottom line. If you can’t do this, you risk leadership pulling the plug. Want a successful innovation program?

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Imaginatik

AUGUST 25, 2016

Hiring someone to lead innovation efforts who is ultimately under-resourced and does not have the clout to get buy-in from the organization. Buying ideation software without dedicating the resources necessary to ensure its successful launch, adoption, and repeatability.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 23, 2017

For the vast majority of companies, innovation is either an occasional or newfound discipline. Making it into a repeatable, scalable set of practices tends to highlight organizational roadblocks and politics – even with deft, careful leadership. The conversation about innovation metrics can be polarizing. Incremental revenues.

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Planview

MARCH 28, 2018

Herrera is Pepperdine Graziadio Business School’s Director of Corporate Partnerships and is also an Adjunct Professor teaching sought after courses on leadership and innovation. He’s also one of the many phenomenal speakers at Ignite who will be sharing their experience running an innovation program.

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Taivara

APRIL 8, 2024

This is why it is critical to educate your leaders and colleagues about this to help ensure long term success for your organization Executive Buy In Executive buy-in goes beyond endorsement; it represents a commitment from top-level leadership to actively support and prioritize innovation initiatives throughout the organization.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 10, 2021

We have great senior leadership support – our CEO actually initiated this program. They’ve allowed us to build a metric into our leadership evaluation manager (LEM) system: leaders have a goal to have 85% of their team members submit a Bright Idea that is approved by the end of the year. So this is a big motivator.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 21, 2020

Operating in an industry that has faced continuous waves of disruption, the leadership team at Somedia identified the urgent need for a professional tool to manage ideas in an effective and transparent way. Somedia used Qmarkets’ best practice Q-ideate configuration in order to maximize results.

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Innov8rs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

You won't get results from your innovation programs, processes and projects if the fundamentals are lacking. And it's your role as innovation leader, for your company as a whole, or for your department or region, to get them right. Assess whether your innovation programs create substantial value for your company.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Not just managing, but mastering the art and science of innovation, effectively ensuring a continuous and cost-effective approach to value creation and realization. Conversely, the leadership for ISO 56001 isn’t as clear-cut. Follow me on LinkedIn. The post The Day the Enterprise Stood Still appeared first on Planbox.

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eZassi

JANUARY 4, 2023

Evaluate your Innovation Strategy. Have I considered the Innovation Styles of my organization and its leadership? Ezassi has an easy to launch ideation software API to collect and manage ideas coming from all sources. An Ideation and Collaboration software platform allows for efficient idea review, rating, and promotion.

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Business Innovation Brief Submitted Articles

JULY 15, 2020

Giving your employees a stake in the game, having them take part in the action and witnessing in real-time the fruits of their labor is rewarding and empowering for all parties involved in the innovation and creative problem-solving lifecycle. Leadership is critical for innovation to be a home run hit however.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

What’s important is that calculating ROI for an idea makes sense for your business, your leadership and is a process that can be applied consistently across a variety of promising ideas and innovation decisions. The goal is to gather important financial details without stymying your crowd’s ideation. Introduction to ROI.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Vision & Leadership 1.

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Planview

MARCH 21, 2018

As you’ll see in the below conversation with Forts, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is one organization that’s taking a proactive approach to innovation. 2018 is in full swing, are there any trends in innovation or technology that you’re excited about exploring as it relates to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s innovation program?

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Vision & Leadership. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Call your shot.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Broad Categories of Innovation At the heart of the innovation spectrum lie two broad categories that encapsulate the range of strategies businesses can deploy: incremental innovation and radical (including disruptive) innovation. Find out more on our product pages.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Vision & Leadership. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Call your shot.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 31, 2017

For the first item, our goal is to make decisions that are accepted by all the key stakeholders and are consistent with the goals of your crowdsourcing or innovation program or the goals of your organization overall. For example, an ideation phase is a great time for discussion and a review phase is a great time for decision-maing).

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

Innovation Programs Based On Best Practices are Doomed to Mediocrity. Things I’ve heard recently from c-suite executives about their own innovation programs: “Floundering and ineffective, if I’m honest.” For example, instead of doing a classic brainstorm, or ideation, do a MoshPit.

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eZassi

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

CIMdata expects, from this report, “that industrial companies will become more familiar with enterprise innovation enabling technologies and will feel more prepared to invest in the next generation of solutions that are designed to increase their ability to innovate more effectively and sustainably.”. Class 3 — Innovation Delivery.

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eZassi

MARCH 27, 2018

The real challenge becomes how to create a culture of innovation where individuals, and the team as a whole, are motivated and inspired to drive the company forward. Some companies make the mistake of assuming innovation comes from the top-down, and that leadership can simply dictate that innovation is a priority and then expect results.

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Planview

AUGUST 1, 2018

As a matter of fact, Spigit’s 2018 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report shows that only 47% of our customer base is tracking ROI on some or all actionable ideas while 63% cite lack of measurable results as the biggest risk to program success. Or takes months (maybe years) to research and adequately define?

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Planview

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

As an innovation practitioner, ensuring that program leaders can motivate people to participate in their innovation programs is something I spend quite a lot of time thinking about. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that crowdsourced innovation is extremely effective.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 5, 2018

For a better business advantage, organizations can practice crowdsourced innovation programs which make innovation process a collective action by involving employees, partners, customers, and all the other stakeholders. This results in potential outcomes that extend way beyond the original focus of the process transformation.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

I’ll unpack the core principles of ‘Leading FOR Innovation’ and share approaches to help overcome the organisational antibodies that often stifle innovation, empowering teams to unleash bold ideas that can reshape your industry’s future.

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Planview

MARCH 29, 2019

Cambia Health Solutions program, Pitchwell, empowers women employees to pitch new ideas to transform health care. With great uncertainty in the US health care system, senior leadership at Cambia was committed to “embedding innovation into the company’s bloodstream,” to transform and disrupt the health care industry.

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Values Centered Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

From working with this model over the past 30 years, I’ve seen that understanding these 4 styles enables a greater capability to listen to ideas from others who have totally different ways of thinking innovatively. That breeds trust and inclusion within a team. Connect with me on Linkedin and share your thoughts!

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 26, 2015

If an organization does not make decisions to follow the initial excitement, your big dreams of a culture of innovation will dwindle to wistful reminiscences of “that one time we tried to be innovative.” Instead, treat the innovation program as a passion project that you’re allowed to work on while you’re on the clock.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

In the context of lean innovation, design thinking holds the empathy portion - the customer-centric focus and the first “E” in the 3 Es of Lean Innovation - which allows organizations to truly pull back the curtain on their customers and understand their desires and needs. But design thinking alone is not enough.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In addition, Qmarkets' Review Committee, where designated employees can review ideas, is a key element of the innovation workflow. Timeline layout: The Qmarkets platform offers built-in campaign and idea workflows, which take into consideration the entire process, from ideation all the way through the implementation process.

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Planview

JULY 3, 2019

Are you utilizing concept development workshops as part of your ideation processes? For innovation programs, a concept development workshop should take place after a crowdsourced innovation challenge has been completed. Are you coming up with and executing on winning ideas? If not, you’ve come to the right place.

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Planview

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Are you an idea champion, ready to inspire innovation in your company? Do you love it when the things you care about (like ideation and presents) come together as one? Are you feeling that holiday spirit?

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Planview

AUGUST 4, 2015

According to the report, having a physical innovation lab where employees and partners can assess ideas from “inception to prototyping using an in-house approach” is an excellent way to trigger ideation. Investing in innovation demonstrates the importance it holds for your company.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Hackathons, internal innovation programs, open innovation, technology acquisitions…these days it seems like everyone is jumping onto the innovation bandwagon. How is innovation best performed? Can guidelines for innovation be created? Today innovation talent pools are growing even larger.

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