Qmarkets

JULY 29, 2024

In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the essential components of a successful strategic innovation program. The Role of Strategic Innovation Management Strategic innovation management is the process of overseeing and guiding innovation activities to ensure they contribute to the company’s strategic objectives.

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KindlingApp

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

We generally call that last kind an “innovation program.” Let’s talk about a fourth kind: programmatic innovation on the scale of a small team, such as a startup or a department within a large company. Desiree’s blog post last week about innovation tools throughout the 20th century was interesting in this regard.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 10, 2019

Planbox is the pioneering provider of cloud-based AI-Powered Agile Innovation Management solutions – from creative ideas to winning projects. Our mission is to help organizations thrive by transforming the culture of agile work, continuous innovation , and creativity across the entire organization.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Innovative companies treat it as just another core skill by: Creating a well-defined set of innovation competencies and embedding them into every employee’s competency model along with other required behaviors such as ethics and leadership. Conducting regular training courses in creativity methods and innovation management.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In other words, it is because sometimes innovation strategies fail to produce products/ services that the customers want. Which brings us to the question, “Why do innovation programs fail?”. Below are 6 reasons why innovation programs can fail. Open innovation, internal and external accelerators etc.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 25, 2024

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at why it’s critical for institutes of higher learning to recognize how innovation and education work closely together to open up new paradigms. Idea Management in Higher Education A key use case of innovation software used by many leading global enterprises is for idea management.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 19, 2015

A major challenge I regularly face in marketing Kindling is explaining the seemingly simple concept of "ideas" as they feature in idea management. From customer feedback to blog post pitches, here's how we're putting idea management to work through our own Kindling: Product, Quality + Support.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 14, 2015

There’s a lot of emphasis in the idea management world on being creative—see Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business 2015 , for example—but it’s not always obvious that being creative is only step one. Innovation requires creativity, but creativity on its own isn’t enough to move a company forward.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In that vision of the “innovation funnel” the idea is at the end… the goal. Attempts to harness or direct that creative energy are not only futile, but actually impede the process. Illustrating that innovation “ecosystem” is really the first step towards developing a mature innovation function.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 31, 2017

For the first item, our goal is to make decisions that are accepted by all the key stakeholders and are consistent with the goals of your crowdsourcing or innovation program or the goals of your organization overall. And follow-through on the decision to deliver results. Separate discussion from decision-making.

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PlanBox Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Building innovative systems is like sumo wrestling in more ways than one. For starters, ask any seasoned innovator and they’ll tell you that developing a world-class innovation program requires some serious heavy lifting. As an innovator, this is your biggest challenge though. Stand Your Ground.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

However, frameworks have built-in assumptions, such as, there’s motivation to innovate, and that the culture is aligned with an innovation effort. Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. There is no innovation without creativity.

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Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2024

We will explore its key concepts, such as trend management and technology scouting , highlight the benefits of adopting an open innovation model, and offer best practices for setting up an effective open innovation program. What is Open Innovation? Ensure these guidelines are accessible and easy to understand.

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Qmarkets

JULY 26, 2024

Enhanced Innovation: Engaged employees are more likely to contribute creative ideas and solutions, driving continuous improvement and competitive advantage. Idea 2: Campaigns and Challenges Idea campaigns and challenges are dynamic ways to stimulate employee involvement and enthusiasm.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore several powerful innovation techniques—ranging from problem-solving frameworks and ideation methods to hackathons and structured innovation programs. Both play a crucial role in driving enterprise innovation, but they serve distinct purposes.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge, in no particular order. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. B to C organization’s need to learn to interpret qualitative data more creatively.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Supporting an innovative culture and adopting an innovation management platform across your company assesses valuable KPIs of the current pipeline and promotes future opportunities through the transformative power of innovation. No idea is too wild or unconventional during this stage.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Let’s not kid ourselves: being the project manager of an idea management process is a tough job and one that requires time, passion, consistency, and dedication. At the same time, for most project managers, idea management is probably not their full time job or primary responsibility.

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KindlingApp

JULY 22, 2015

Convincing your employees to submit ideas to an innovation program is a challenge we’ve written about extensively , but we usually discuss the problem in terms of preventing loss of engagement. For veterans of innovation programs, there’s still a use case for rewarding high-quality idea submission.

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Planview

APRIL 4, 2018

From developing digital technology solutions for our medical devices to utilizing a digital supply chain to better deliver our pharmaceutical products to our customers, I’m really interested to see what comes up from Fast Track Ideas (Johnson & Johnson’s idea management system – more on this later) along those lines.

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KindlingApp

MAY 13, 2015

Why is an innovation program better for idea management than a suggestion box or an Excel spreadsheet? Structuring innovation means building the foundation for idea submission. Around which topics will people innovate? What are the rules or constraints governing idea submission?

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

But none of those factors, or all of them together, are enough to overcome untrained thinking, poor session facilitation, and an un-anchored or non-existent innovation approach. What’s needed is energy AND knowledge about How To Do Innovation. Your innovation efforts will fail without training.

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eZassi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Invest in Intrapreneurs – Innovation Management Supports Your Organization’s Greatest Change Makers Intrapreneurs are those important team members with the optimism, intellect, initiative, and discipline to champion bright ideas and drive new project pipelines, establishing innovative change across the business.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Gartner defines innovation management as a structured process that strives to drive a repeatable, sustainable innovation process or culture within an organization. Innovation management drives focus on disruptive or step changes that transform the business in some significant way.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 13, 2022

In our next article we will share how we helped Barenbrug – a leading agriculture company based in the Netherlands – to implement an innovation program with the Qmarkets tool. Innovation Exploration vs Exploitation But first, we will explain the difference between exploration and exploitation.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 9, 2017

Innovation Programs Based On Best Practices are Doomed to Mediocrity. Things I’ve heard recently from c-suite executives about their own innovation programs: “Floundering and ineffective, if I’m honest.” ” “We don’t do idea generation well.” But I digress.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 26, 2019

And then there was the question of what, exactly, to communicate about innovation. It depends on your goals as an organization, and on how your innovation program is structured. It also depends on your leadership style, and the current state of your innovation culture. We still want the ideas. It depends.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 8, 2024

This can be achieved through various means, such as setting up innovation challenges, providing time and resources for employees to work on innovative projects, or implementing recognition programs for contributors to the innovation process. One of the key use cases of innovation management software is idea management.

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Planview

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The skinny: Steve Blank outlines how lean innovation practices can drive 10 times the number of initiatives in a fifth of the time. The Good, the Bad, and the Future of Creative Collaboration. How To Measure Innovation (To Get Real Results). The skinny: Want to get tangible results from your innovation program?

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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? Encourage innovative thinking by rewarding innovative thought.

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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? Encourage innovative thinking by rewarding innovative thought.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 9, 2024

Enriched Collaboration & Community Building Innovation is fundamentally collaborative – it doesn’t happen effectively in a vacuum. That’s why facilitating a free-flowing creative process is at the core of the Qmarkets platform. Catalyst Network Toolkit 2.0 But at Qmarkets we’re focused on helping you to actually deliver results.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 30, 2024

The idea behind this is that it’s critical to create a decentralized approach to innovation management if you want to scale an innovation program across a large organization with thousands of employees. That’s why facilitating a free-flowing creative process is at the core of the Qmarkets platform.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 30, 2024

The idea behind this is that it’s critical to create a decentralized approach to innovation management if you want to scale an innovation program across a large organization with thousands of employees. That’s why facilitating a free-flowing creative process is at the core of the Qmarkets platform.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The term itself combines “hack”—referring to creative coding or problem-solving—with “marathon,” representing the event’s prolonged, focused effort. Hackathons not only deliver innovative solutions but also foster employee engagement, strengthen teamwork, and build a culture of creativity.

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