Innov8rs

APRIL 17, 2024

Beyond internal innovation, Zurich is also continuously looking for solutions externally. These responses are then broken down into themes, which provide the submission categories for the Innovation program. This includes searching for zebra startups, a profitable and sustainable alternative to unicorns.

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Collaboration Innovation Groups Exercises 52

eZassi

MAY 17, 2017

Creating an internal competition is an excellent way to motivate your workforce to develop innovative solutions and new business opportunities. The teams present their projects to a panel of judges who select the best innovations for implementation. Open competitions allow for both internal and external concept submissions.

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Competition Open Innovation Innovation Software 40

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 28, 2016

The City of Calgary is the winner of the Best Engagement Strategy for their myCityInnovation campaign, an internal program which is part of the broader City innovation program Civic Innovation YYC. City of Calgary—Best Engagement Strategy.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

To describe EC, I’ll borrow its “classic” 2006 definition by Jeff Howe as an act of taking a job traditionally performed inside the firm and outsourcing it to a large (and usually undefined) group of people in the form of an open call. Eugene writes at the Innovation Observer website and his tweets can be found at @eugeneivanov101.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Tools Design 60

CREATORS

JULY 6, 2017

At this point because of the unknowns, corporations usually engage in short-term internal innovation programs, continue with PR activities, and hire external consultants to put mechanisms in place. At this stage, most companies resort to establishing a startup-engagement program. Experiment! You are almost there.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Innovation Programs Survey 40

Planview

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Here are 10 things you might be doing without thinking that are killing your innovation efforts right now. You want people to contribute great ideas to your innovation program, and that’s exciting. Herd mentality is very real, and presents a major threat to innovation. Put the Cart Before the Horse. Play Favorites.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Programs Innovation Conference 40

eZassi

MARCH 13, 2018

Since then he has chased elusive innovation through the corporate world, and will share some stories from 15 years’ experience as an innovation manager. Why do so many innovation programs fail? Transforming and Accelerating Innovation at P&G. What can we do when that happens, and what can we do to prevent it?

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Conference Trends LEAN Innovation Programs 40

Planview

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Spigit CTO James Gardner, who this week is presenting at the Chief Innovation Officer Summit in NYC , knows a thing or two about how to be successful at crowdsourcing innovation. “We must learn how to encourage our employees to want to engage in innovation. Speaking from Experience.

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Crowdsourcing How To CTO Guidelines 40

Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

To describe EC, I’ll borrow its “classic” 2006 definition by Jeff Howe as an act of taking a job traditionally performed inside the firm and outsourcing it to a large (and usually undefined) group of people in the form of an open call. Eugene writes at the Innovation Observer website and his tweets can be found at @eugeneivanov101.

Crowdsourcing 40

Crowdsourcing Innovation Tools Design 40

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? This brings much more weight to bear on a given issue.

Survey 40

Survey Innovation Crowdsourcing Idea Management 40

Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 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? This brings much more weight to bear on a given issue.

Survey 40

Survey Innovation Crowdsourcing Idea Management 40

eZassi

MARCH 13, 2018

Since then he has chased elusive innovation through the corporate world, and will share some stories from 15 years’ experience as an innovation manager. Why do so many innovation programs fail? Transforming and Accelerating Innovation at P&G. What can we do when that happens, and what can we do to prevent it?

Conference 40

Conference Leadership Trends LEAN 40

Hutch Carpenter

AUGUST 5, 2015

Innovation efforts come in a variety of forms: innovation and design labs, jobs-to-be-done analysis, corporate venturing, distributed employee experiments, open innovation, TRIZ, etc. In this post, I want to focus on another type of innovation initiative: Collaborative Innovation. Decisioning. Description.

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Collaboration Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 40

CREATORS

JUNE 19, 2017

While mapping over 160 corporate innovation programs for the CREATORS Corporate Innovation Report 2017, we came across some successful examples of “spray and pray” elements in innovation strategy: Coca Cola invested in Spotify. The following year, Matthias Döpfner became CEO, and radically transformed the business model.

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How To Innovation Strategy Strategy 40

ITONICS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Having looked more closely at a company’s internal innovation sources , we will now examine the most important external sources. Academic and research institutions that run innovation programs funded by the company. Partnerships between companies and universities are one of the key drivers of the innovation economy.

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Technical Review Software Review Trends Entrepreneurship 45

ITONICS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Having looked more closely at a company’s internal innovation sources , we will now examine the most important external sources. Academic and research institutions that run innovation programs funded by the company. Partnerships between companies and universities are one of the key drivers of the innovation economy.

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Software Review Trends Entrepreneurship 28