IdeaScale

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This is more than just a way to better understand who shops with you, though; with the right platform, it can be a source of powerful innovation. What Is Open Innovation? Traditionally, innovation in companies has been “closed.” When Should I Use Open Innovation? How Should I Use Open Innovation?

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Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 11, 2017

It has been a while since Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation and formulated it’s definition: “combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external paths to market to advance the development of new technologies.” Open Innovation as a paradigm on itself is on its quest to touch base.

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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. Open Innovation 2.0

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Open innovation is a core strategy for transformative growth amongst a growing number of enterprise companies around the world. The days of boardrooms and R&D departments keeping innovation under lock and key are waning, as companies are increasingly preferring a more collaborative approach with startups and other external parties.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

We design the innovation system we need after we know what we are trying to achieve in the challenge or idea. Can we design a totally ‘adaptive’ innovation process to fit the specific need? A radically different orchestration of innovation – highly networked, fully connected-up. We “pull down” what is needed.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A great deal of activity has been happening under the topic of ‘open innovation’, however we have found very different initiatives launched by our clients that challenge a common definition of the term. The open innovation process here self-organizes the proper fit for start-up-to-problem-solution pairing.

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100%Open

OCTOBER 9, 2016

When it comes to open innovation, knowing where to start or what to do next can often be the hardest decision. To counter this, we have produced a simple tool (below), which is based on our range of practical experience, to show the most common and relevant methods to successfully innovate openly.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The collaborators are seeing the combined value and individual gain in this more open approach. There are so many opportunities for innovation well beyond products and services. We can open up so many new possibilities. coming from industry 4.0 deployments.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Innovation thinking in Ecosystem and Gen AI design I believe there is a real need to construct a different innovation process. We are rapidly seeing the past of innovating simply in terms of operating on our own. Earlier this year, I proposed a different framework for the innovation process and thinking.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 27, 2025

From advanced AI-driven capabilities in startup scouting to significant improvements in user engagement and system accessibility, read on as we review how these innovations are propelling your own innovation strategies with Qmarkets in 2025 and beyond.AI-Enhanced Enhanced Startup Scouting Research.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 14, 2020

The idea of “outsourcing” innovation can seem contrary to the whole concept. 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. Why Should I Outsource Innovation?

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IdeaScale

JUNE 20, 2017

One of the most effective ways to engage your crowd is to demonstrate commitment to turning their ideas into real value and impact. However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”.

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IdeaConnection

MARCH 30, 2018

When Boeing wanted fresh ideas on how to spend $100 million, which was the result of the benefits of tax reform legislation it turned to open innovation. It can also provide ways for companies to engage their employees in the innovation process or in making important decisions. Employee Engagement.

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Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2024

Companies working in isolation may miss out on the vast pool of external knowledge and innovative ideas that could propel them forward. The closed innovation model can result in slower innovation cycles, higher costs, and increased risk of obsolescence in a rapidly changing market. But what is open innovation?

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Innov8rs

MARCH 27, 2023

This collaborative approach to innovation – also known as Open Innovation – can come in many shapes and sizes. How to measure your corporate’s open innovation activities? Open Innovation: Pros & Cons Corporations can’t always undertake innovation on their own. Joint Ventures (e.g.,

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Instead, choose metrics that are more informative and that tell you about the process. You might consider overall time spent on the project, time from first meeting to product launch, customer feedback, or employee engagement. Building an innovation culture starts with a strong foundation.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This mass personalization can foster deeper customer engagement and loyalty, driving innovative business models. Enable Autonomous Innovation Processes : With advancements in self-supervised learning and few-shot adaptation, generative AI could eventually handle end-to-end innovation workflows with limited human intervention.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2024

Embedding Design Thinking into Innovation Processes: Design thinking has emerged as a powerful tool for innovation, emphasizing user empathy, rapid prototyping, and iterative refinement. This collaborative approach taps into external expertise, reduces development costs, and accelerates innovation cycles.

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Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2022

Margaret Heffernan – Entrepreneur, CEO and writer Few would disagree with the notion that innovation is driven by the sharing of good ideas. Where open innovation and closed innovation models differ is the question of who should be included in these conversations. What is Open Innovation?

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Actively solicit ideas and approaches from them, get information on the challenges and ways to resolve them, and ask what their ideal innovation program looks like. Early on in the innovation process, the resource demands are usually modest, and far less complex than you might think.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions.

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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

MAY 22, 2017

They are looking to complement and reinforce existing capabilities through more open innovation thinking and approaches.

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Yet2

JULY 3, 2024

This approach is particularly valuable for large companies open to external-enabled paths, where the need to explore external and internal options adds significant opportunity but also significant decision-making complexity. Such restrictive ideal (“nice to have”) requirements can easily hobble the external innovation process.

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InnovationManagement

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Crowdsourcing and open innovation initiatives are vital by bringing vast stakeholders together to share ideas on complex problems and opportunities. Much of the focus is set on engaging the crowd yet deciding which ideas to take a risk on requires data on the likely impacts and costs. .

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eZassi

JANUARY 24, 2017

Idea Management Software Streamlines Open Innovation. “Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.” The community needs to be engaged and participate.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

We’ve wrote about the open innovation software process before, but understanding how ideas move through that process is very important from a couple of perspectives, depending on which style of innovation you move forward with; internal or external. Open Innovation. Structured Innovation.

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eZassi

MARCH 6, 2025

Technology discovery and scouting are essential activities for enterprise innovation programs and R&D departments to identify emerging technologies, startups, and market trends that can drive competitive advantage. Identification of white-space opportunities for innovation.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Understanding the Idea-to-Implementation Process 1. Generating and Refining Ideas Innovation begins with ideation. Ezassi’s Idea Management Software fosters creativity both internally and externally by engaging employees, partners, and customers in the process. Ready to bring your next big idea to life?

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

So the thinking intent of searching for a new innovation design had some framing assumptions that can leverage where we are to move towards a new future. In my view, we must go way beyond “open innovation” as we practice it today. Innovation today conflicts with much of our existing organizational designs.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

I think with the recognition that innovation occurs across the whole organization the innovation management (IM) providers have to radically alter their business model or recognize they need to broaden out their target market inside organizations as innovation is occurring in all corners of the organization today.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions. It can simply connect a ‘crowd’ of people to a common purpose. What do you gain that is additional to what you are currently doing?

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100%Open

JANUARY 4, 2016

We were asked recently by a new client what our top 10 Do’s and Don’ts are for running open innovation competitions, based on our experience including the UBS Future of Finance Challenge , Unilever Foundry Ideas Challenge , Colombia CO4 Open Innovation Competition , and Ordnance Survey GeoVation Challenge.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 26, 2021

Accenture reveal the receipe behind portfolio growth with their 12 key rituals to governing innovation. Employee Engagement The benefits of employee engagement are no secret, especially to organizations who want to drive business success and longevity. What are the Various Approaches to Innovation in Business?

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Planview

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In the open innovation space, one regularly leads to the other. Read these three in-depth industry reports to find out the new rules of the collaborative economy, why the United States is leading the way in turning customer feedback into innovative products, and what challenges are soon to crop up in crowdsourcing.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Open-source innovation (or simply ‘open innovation’) is developing into a core strategy for transformative growth amongst enterprise companies around the world. Let’s talk about open-source innovation. Traditional organizations might feel protective of their internal knowledge and processes.

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