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Innovation Services: In-House or Outsourced?

IdeaScale

Isn’t innovation supposed to be about tapping the potential of your employees while engaging with them on a creative level? Sometimes it takes an outsider to kickstart the creative process. If you haven’t really developed a strategy before, it helps to work with an expert who can guide you through the process.

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Innovation Hacks: Lessons Learned from Successful Startups

IdeaScale

Go Outside Your Company Whether it’s crowdsourcing, open innovation, or another form of reaching out, don’t hesitate to tap into creativity beyond your organization. Asking multiple groups of stakeholders to weigh in will help limit problems further along in the creative process.

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5 Must-Watch TED Talks to Inspire Your Innovation Team

IdeaScale

It started out not as a new product from the top cycle manufacturers, but a jury-rigged, de facto crowdsourced effort by California bikers frustrated with bikes that fell apart on trails, and invented widely scorned “clunkers” to get over tough mountain trails.

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Learning to be Innovative – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact

Imaginatik

Both are integral components of the visionary innovator’s creative process. For starters, you can crowdsource clues from elsewhere in your own organization. There are two primary aspects of a strong Future Building practice – Ecosystem Scanning and Narrative Shaping. Ecosystem Scanning.

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Why Financial Organizations Must Fight Digital Disruption with Digital Disruption

Qmarkets

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. Qmarkets Q-360 is a suite of products that provides comprehensive crowdsourcing and innovation management solutions.

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The Road to Innovation: Capricorn’s Idea Management Journey in the Automotive Aftermarket Industry

Qmarkets

Not only would crowdsourced innovation align perfectly with the organization’s cooperative principles, it offered a way to bring together its multinational and widely distributed team of 500 employees; many of whom are out there working in the field.

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Unlocking Potential with an Innovation Pilot – 6 Reasons for SMEs to use Idea Management Tools

Qmarkets

Start is a best-practice turnkey solution that gives SMEs the ability to launch an innovation pilot, where various crowdsourcing initiatives and idea management practices can be experimented with. We released a new product edition last month called “ start ” which is designed to meet the specific requirements of SMEs. Quality over Quantity.