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Open Innovation: Your Guide to Harnessing and Managing the Best Ideas

IdeaScale

Open innovation allows everyone to compete equally, whether their development budget is large or small. What is Open Innovation. Open innovation is a paradigm shift that assumes organizations can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas to determine as path to market and advance technology.

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Announcing the 2016 Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

Having received some fantastic entries, we have officially chosen and are extremely pleased to share our winners for the 2016 Innovation Management Awards. What might your organization do to be more engaging, have better moderation, and implement the best innovation? City of Calgary—Best Engagement Strategy. What We Learned.

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Intrapreneurship Chicago 2016

Gregg Fraley

So, you may be surprised when I bend over backwards to promote Intrapreneurship Chicago 2016. Chicago area innovators and intrapreneurs, take note. Craig Wirkus , Innovation Program Manager, Cisco. Matt Krathwohl, of Notre Dame’s Innovation Program. The social events are fun, but a bit… forced.

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4 Great Innovations that Started as Employee Ideas

IdeaScale

This tenet underpins most of crowdsourcing and all open innovation programs. Vendasta Technologies is a SaaS company and their new product, WebsitePro emerged during a hackathon in 2016. The idea for IdeaScale functions on a simple premise: good ideas can come from anywhere. The product was called Fundbox Fuse. .

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Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?

Paul Hobcraft

But first, when you think of innovation, what comes to mind? In “ Opportunity Now: Europe’s Mission to Innovate ,” a 2016 European Commission report (a mere 360 pages long), the author makes this point: “Innovation is also more complex than ever. We are fragmenting much within innovation. Innovation Tours.

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What is Innovation in Business and How Can it Build Business Longevity?

Qmarkets

Employees have the knowledge, experience, and skill set to keep the engine of a business running day in and day out – so tapping into this with an employee innovation program can open a realm of possibilities. An employee innovation program is simply a process that empowers each employee to share their ideas.

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What is Innovation in Business and How Can it Build Business Longevity?

Qmarkets

Employees have the knowledge, experience, and skill set to keep the engine of a business running day in and day out – so tapping into this with an employee innovation program can open a realm of possibilities. An employee innovation program is simply a process that empowers each employee to share their ideas.