Qmarkets

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Human-centered innovation is gaining momentum as a key strategy for businesses that want to foster meaningful growth and stay ahead of the competition. Market Differentiation : In competitive markets, addressing specific human needs helps businesses stand out. Empathy should be a core value that drives every phase of innovation.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This article explores the essentials of developing an effective open innovation strategy and the role of innovation management software in executing it, including tools for idea management, technology scouting, and trend management. What Is an Open Innovation Strategy?

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IdeaScale

MARCH 10, 2020

Are your employees engaged with your company’s innovation strategy? Employees who are directly engaged with what’s going on in the company will feel a stronger need to innovate than their disengaged counterparts. Still, you need more data, and there are other forms of engagement that will help you form the bigger picture.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 4, 2025

This article explores 12 thought-provoking innovation quotes, each revealing a key lesson in crowdsourcing, collaboration, idea management , or continuous innovation. By engaging employees, customers, and external contributors, businesses can generate a wealth of ideas and refine them into actionable strategies.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Unlike traditional methods of innovation, accelerators focus on speed, providing the resources, mentorship, and infrastructure that internal teams or startups need to rapidly bring their ideas to market. Create a Competitive and Collaborative Environment The best accelerators foster both competition and collaboration.

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Idea to Value

MAY 18, 2020

As part of their initiative, one person had been given ownership for an initiative to update the organization-wide tools and processes for idea management work. Given their workload, they probably won’t have the time to do that well, and even if they somehow manage to do that, it will likely take them quite a long time.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Value innovation takes a different pathit creates entirely new demand by delivering higher value at a lower cost, making competition irrelevant. Well also break down the steps to implementing value innovation and examine how idea management and technology scouting can accelerate its success. What is Value Innovation?

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Acuvate

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In today’s competitive business world employee engagement is an essential element in creating a positive work culture and a productive workforce. Organizations with engaged employees perform better than those without by whopping 202%. This is the reason employee engagement gets top precedence in the workplace strategy.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 12, 2024

By streamlining the ideation process , businesses can stay competitive and foster a culture of continuous improvement. A startup idea generator can help entrepreneurs refine their business concepts, brainstorm features that address customer pain points, and differentiate their offerings from competitors.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 21, 2020

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. Businesses looking to discover how to beat a recession with idea management and continuous improvement would also do well to adopt it.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Originally rooted in software development, hackathons have evolved into a strategic tool across industries, fostering creativity, team collaboration, and idea generation under tight timeframes. Collaborative and competitive : Teams work together while competing for the best solution.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 21, 2020

During the COVID-19 crisis, technology is driving competition beyond traditional boundaries. Tap into Existing Ideas. Idea management is an essential process where ideas are gathered and analyzed. Companies can benefit from examining those ideas to figure out how they apply during times of crisis.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Unfortunately, many organizations struggle to transform their best ideas into tangible outcomes that drive growth and competitive advantage. In this article, well explore what implementing ideas truly means and how it fits into the broader innovation process. Strong collaboration accelerates progress and improves outcomes.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The ability to embrace digital innovation isnt just a competitive advantageits becoming a necessity for long-term survival. It often requires changes to culture, operations, and customer engagement. Businesses that leverage these technologies improve customer satisfaction, loyalty, and long-term engagement.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore four distinct methods—physical brainstorming, face-to-face hackathons, virtual hackathons, and idea management programs—to help you determine the best fit for your team. The goal is to rapidly prototype solutions, with teams typically presenting their ideas or products at the end of the session.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The Power of Innovation Management Successful innovation doesn’t stop at ideation—it thrives on meticulous planning, execution, and adaptation. Without a structured approach, even the most brilliant ideas risk stalling. Understanding the Idea-to-Implementation Process 1. Ready to bring your next big idea to life?

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Wazoku

AUGUST 17, 2018

We’ve helped companies completely transform themselves through idea management, but for many businesses it’s still a new concept, and a hard thing to get right. Idea management is the process of generating, collating, analysing and implementing ideas that solve real business problems, as part of a wider innovation strategy.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 22, 2025

By challenging established norms, organizations can uncover new opportunities for growth and customer engagement. One example of how organizational culture drives radical innovation is Amer Sports , which used Qmarkets idea management software to engage its diverse international workforce.

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Wazoku

MAY 2, 2019

London-based SaaS eyes global expansion and product enhancement, as demand for idea management set to reach £1.17bn by 2022. This latest investment, which brings the total amount raised by Wazoku to £6.1M, is both a recognition of that growth, and also the increasing size and potential of the global idea management market.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2019

Those that do will be coming more from the Product Lifecycle Management perspective (PLM) where product design has always been complex. Those that don’t come from the old traditional thinking about innovation idea management or managing a single product portfolio. Then why are we not screaming for this solution?

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Wazoku

JUNE 5, 2019

It’s no secret that happy, engaged and empowered employees, are more productive, perform better and have greater commitment to their role and company. Idea management cultivates engagement and innovation, a process that drives bottom-up innovation by empowering employees. The role of idea management.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. Understandably, the increase in competition and market saturation is seen by those who experience it as a direct threat to their organizational legitimacy. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Sleeping With the Enemy. Legitimate Risk Factors.

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Qmarkets

JULY 18, 2024

McKinsey’s findings suggest that companies fostering a strong culture of innovation excel in leveraging technology and accelerating their competitive differentiation. By strategically launching innovation challenges, companies can foster a culture of innovation and maintain a competitive edge. What is an Innovation Challenge?

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Qmarkets

JUNE 3, 2021

Yet, innovation doesn’t just happen, it starts with ideas. Ideas can result in new revenue streams, product improvements, enhanced employee engagement, and more. Idea software also has various features such as gamification, automation, and AI tools, to help you engage your users and easily manage the process.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any company which has or is thinking of building an Innovation Team / Department / Lab / Skunkworks should be aware of this concept of Dual Innovation and make sure your teams have the skills and permission to engage in it. 10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Redwood Credit Union has a culture that thrives on friendly competition and employee pride. Awards were given not just for the ideas that delivered the most impact (the voyager award) but also for the groups with the most engaged participants (the TME Award) and both were highly coveted by the program participants.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2018

Before you so much as dip a toe into a new market, you need some idea management. New markets may be the lifeblood of any business, but business history is littered with companies that leaped into new markets without, literally, any ideas. Can you demonstrate it, in a context that will engage them?

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Qmarkets

JULY 31, 2023

OmniStrada and Qmarkets will provide businesses with a proven solution to continuously find and implement new ideas. This will increase productivity, improve customer experiences, streamline workflows, and reduce costs, resulting in long-term competitive edge. About Qmarkets Managing innovation at large company is never easy.

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Qmarkets

JULY 26, 2024

Employee engagement is a critical factor in achieving business success. Engaged employees are more productive , motivated, and committed to their work, leading to better overall performance for the company.

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Acuvate

JANUARY 3, 2019

In today’s competitive world, it’s no secret that organizations struggle to come up with competent and innovative solutions to facilitate growth and stay ahead in the game. Out of all the potential idea management software available in the market, how can you identify the best one with the best features that fit your organization’s needs?

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Imaginatik

MAY 29, 2018

The book offers specific lessons and implications of how companies have created new business models given a changed competitive landscape — whether Alibaba or Amazon, Tencent or Tesla, or what Scheneider Electric is attempting to do, and what General Electric has struggled to realize. About the Authors. Ralph Welborn, Ph.D., About Imaginatik.

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Exago

DECEMBER 18, 2018

But, in a more evolved form, this business approach has in fact shown that it can complement Innovation Management when it comes to company operations, and could be the answer for businesses to remain competitive in today’s world. The post How can Lean and Innovation make your business evolve to 4.0? appeared first on Exago.

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Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

Understanding Corporate Innovation Corporate innovation refers to the process through which companies introduce new ideas, workflows, methodologies, services, or products. It is a crucial element for companies to adapt, grow, and stay competitive. Understanding market positioning and competitive landscape.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Behind every groundbreaking product or service is a well-structured process that transforms creative ideas into actionable solutions. This process, known as ideation, plays a pivotal role in helping companies generate new concepts, solve problems, and stay competitive.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 9, 2016

The use of crowdsourcing : the goal for me, is to engage and move the crowd towards a new direction, by encouraging out individual thinking and discovery, searching for combining these contributions; ones that lead to novel, new answers that move a challenge forward into a solution, one that has improved value over the existing.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 5, 2016

Sometimes a crowdsourcing problem is hijacked by a party with a cause, or it becomes more of a competition between selected individuals that influence and shape the debate. How do you deal with potential plagiarism, intellectual property rights or those deliberately seeking funds or engagement for their means?

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Your employees’ ideas have the potential to have long term impact on your business, leading to new products, services, and processes – and ultimately providing you with a killer competitive edge. This is where your employees will submit their ideas and kick off the innovation process.

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