Qmarkets

MARCH 4, 2025

Their words offer timeless wisdom on creativity, problem-solving, and the strategies behind business success. This article explores 12 thought-provoking innovation quotes, each revealing a key lesson in crowdsourcing, collaboration, idea management , or continuous innovation.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

IdeaScale is offering innovators from around the world an extra week to complete their submission for the Innovation Management Awards. This is our fifth annual award series and we honor winners in three categories: best innovation engagement strategy, best innovation process, and best innovation.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2019

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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Placing innovation as a prime focus and not as side responsibility or allowing it to fall on a second plane is vital as teams that are dedicated to innovation have seen much better results in their innovation processes. Innovation in nonprofits is hard, but the very nature of the problems faced demand it.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. 10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management. 9 – Understanding the science of creativity.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Ezassi’s Idea Management Software fosters creativity both internally and externally by engaging employees, partners, and customers in the process. Through our Innovation Strategy Solutions , we help clients build a culture of creativity and align their ideas with corporate objectives.

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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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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Innovation can accomplish great things, even in highly regulated government agencies.?. Five years ago, CDER launched a crowdsourcing program to make better use of its 4,500 employees, and the results have been extremely promising. For their innovation strategy, time-limited challenges work better.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

This year, the US Coast Guard won the annual Innovation Management Award for organization that could demonstrate the best and most repeatable innovation process. That process surfaced numerous valuable ideas that will lead to lives saved in future Coast Guard operations.

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Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

The concept of crowdsourcing, coined by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson in a 2006 Wired article , has revolutionized how businesses and organizations solve problems and innovate. In this article, we’ll explore how businesses are using crowdsourcing to drive innovation. What is Crowdsourcing?

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Product innovation helps businesses differentiate offerings and increase customer value. Process Innovation Process innovation focuses on streamlining workflows through automation, AI, and data analytics. Here are two key strategies that businesses can use to drive digital innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

They are taking a creative lead but is it bold enough. Platform solution is extremely expensive, building ecosystems equally complex, even in this world of Innovation. We have to demand Innovation Management Software Providers make some bold decisions. How they accelerate in the coming 12 months will determine this.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Ideas and feedback are flowing back and forth throughout the innovation process. This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities. Everyone in the innovation process can contribute, regardless of their position or role.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Yet, it’s important to remember that the so-called serendipitous encounters , unplanned interactions between employees working in close proximity to each other, represent one of the driving forces of innovation. crowdsourcing ?as open innovation tool to help them address their most pressing technical and business challenges.

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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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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

They are believed to play a central role in the development of new collaborative partnerships that are crucial for sustained corporate innovation process. Crowdsourcing to the Rescue? crowdsourcing ?as open innovation tool to help them address their most pressing technical and business challenges.

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

Think of the improved innovation results they could get if they not only engaged their employees in the innovation process but also helped them to learn about that process and develop their skills in generating, developing, and analyzing ideas.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 6, 2016

But innovation is not the Idea; it’s more than that. Innovation goes beyond bright ideas by combining processes with creative minds to breathe life into something that makes life easier, days brighter, and helps organizations get closer to their goals. Do you have a process in place to do that?

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Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Crowdsourcing Process (Geiger). Stage-Gate Model in Crowdsourcing (Saldanha). End-to-End Innovation Process (Furr). Citizen-Drive Innovation (World Bank). Process of Creativity (Gill). Creative Problem Solving (Isaksen).

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Because it invests customers in product development, it can also be useful from a marketing perspective or if you want to use crowdsourcing, but don’t want to deal with the downsides of the entire internet having a vote on your product. How Should I Use Open Innovation? Open innovation isn’t for every project.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Many of our customers are ready to enter the next level for their innovation endeavors and underlying processes. Together with Qmarkets we’ve been able to add much more value for our customers in their innovation processes, resulting in exponentially improved innovation performance. That is our playing field.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 3, 2018

Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the Smart Cities initiative could be what makes the difference. Private companies can launch innovation hubs and accelerators, whose main goal is to involve community members and leaders who will suggest creative ideas and solutions.

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Qmarkets

JULY 12, 2024

This article explores how entrepreneurship and innovation management work together and examines the role of innovation management software in leveraging entrepreneurial talent. Entrepreneurs are characterized by their creativity, willingness to take risks, and ability to innovate.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Yet the methods they employ subconsciously derive from talents wired into human nature, accessible to us all – creativity, imagination, the ability to dream. These skills are often overlooked or underutilized by innovation and R&D teams. Both are integral components of the visionary innovator’s creative process.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

There is a perception of serendipitous, Zen enlightenment related to ideation that is often accompanied by a thorough dismissal of “process,” as if they are mutually exclusive. In that vision of the “innovation funnel” the idea is at the end… the goal. Any organization can be innovative.

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Qmarkets

JULY 14, 2020

The Marketplace is an online open innovation community that is helping hospitals and healthcare providers to respond to the urgent challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. The system is divided into two areas with unique processes; one for declaring needs, and another for crowdsourcing innovative solutions to those needs: 1.

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Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The process of sourcing for external knowledge, patents or technology and to formalize the use of that information in your own innovation process. Co-marketing, like co-branding, is about creating a synergetic effect in the commercialization stage of the innovation process. Route 15: Co-marketing.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The evolving trend of smart city innovation is one that governments should be wholeheartedly embracing, but as with many government initiatives, seems to be having a hard time getting off the ground. Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the smart cities initiative could be what makes the difference.

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Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2024

This crowdsourced expertise led to significant advancements in fuel efficiency, passenger comfort, and overall performance. This perfect illustration of collaboration and innovation showcases how bringing together diverse perspectives can lead to phenomenal success.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s natural to consider education and innovation as mutually compatible. It’s surprising, then, that many academic institutions still lag when it comes to implementing well-structured innovation processes. Innovation in Education: A Proud History DNA, Genetic Fingerprinting, CDs, Computers, and the Internet.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 6, 2020

LEAD Innovation Management – an acclaimed Austrian firm specializing in corporate innovation – has transformed their extensive LEAD user network into a digital crowdsourcing platform using Qmarkets’ software. The LEAD Proactive initiative has been launched on an entirely ‘pro-bono’ basis.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

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. Simply put, innovation management is the management of product and organizational innovation processes within an organization.

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Qmarkets

JULY 18, 2024

However, to truly harness the power of innovation, organizations must adopt a series of best practices that ensure the entire innovation process—from strategy and planning to execution and evaluation—is managed efficiently. Start by establishing standardized procedures for each phase, from idea generation to execution.

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Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2024

This strategy allows businesses to leverage external expertise, share resources, and integrate diverse perspectives within a broader innovation ecosystem, ultimately fostering a more dynamic and efficient innovation process. This guide aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of open innovation.

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