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Inform Your Product Development with Innovation Roadmaps

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Product roadmaps are powerful tools to get the team organized and to get a new product launched. Innovation roadmaps use the product roadmap technique to drive innovation strategy, and they’re powerful tools regardless of your industry. Why A Roadmap? What kind of product do you want to produce?

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How To Create A Concrete Roadmap for Innovative Ideas

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A product roadmap helps you plan and align key features and goals into a clean, easily digestible format. . Instead of having concepts and action items disjointedly existing on spreadsheets and scratchpads, a product roadmap has actionable steps with quantifiable times laid out to lead to whatever your end goal(s) may be. .

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Innovation Services: In-House or Outsourced?

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Of course, in the case of tools like open innovation and crowdsourcing, you might want the perspective of customers and clients on what they need and want. Common examples of outsourcing in innovation include crowdsourcing, platform design and implementation, data collection and analysis, auditing, and testing.

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An Innovation Lexicon

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The power of collaboration beyond the confines of a conventional organization are leading many to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding innovation – so independent parties work together to design, produce and finance new things. Or of Jugaad – small, smart innovation for ordinary people.

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Top 15 Reasons to Attend Open Nation

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And talk to our product team in order to Influence IdeaScale’s product roadmap (hint: success increases with more drinks). It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. The Rickshaw Rides – Need a ride to and from? Just flag the IdeaScale rickshaw down. Will I see you there?

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Designing at an Innovation Management Company

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When I joined IdeaScale in late spring of this year, I set out to discover how I could help our customers create and maintain an innovative culture at their company through our crowdsourcing tools. For instance, most of our customers believe they are purchasing a crowdsourcing platform — and they are. What are our design principles?

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4 Ways To Invest In Your Employees’ Creativity

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Add innovation training to the onboarding agenda, recruit someone from your innovation department to speak or enlist a senior executive to share the company’s Innovation Thesis and the roadmap for core, adjacent or transformational innovation. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine.