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5 Innovation Engagement Best Practices

IdeaScale

More and more companies are inviting their employees to participate in company-wide ideation. Companies that do this contribute to overall innovation program health by ensuring a healthy top of the funnel stocked with ideas and allies. Learn more about how to run a successful innovation engagement campaign.

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Innovation is Always an Opportunity for Learning

IdeaScale

Innovation programs generate more than ideas and new products, they generate data and insights that can inform your strategic direction. You can learn a lot about the meaningful trends in your field of practice (and about your crowd) by reviewing the information in your innovation system.

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How to Manage Innovation Exploration With the Support of an Ideation Platform

Qmarkets

As such, more and more of these companies are thinking about how to better structure their innovation exploration activities, often through an ideation platform. Not only is continuous innovation necessary for survival, but also constant refinement and recalibration of existing business models. Sufficient budget and resources.

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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

In the context of lean innovation, design thinking holds the empathy portion - the customer-centric focus and the first “E” in the 3 Es of Lean Innovation - which allows organizations to truly pull back the curtain on their customers and understand their desires and needs. But design thinking alone is not enough.

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Engaging People in Innovation

IdeaScale

Engaging people in innovation is at the heart of what we do at IdeaScale. As an example, we found a direct increase in new community membership when we completed face to face sessions or just dropped in to visit specific sites. “Always share the “whys” behind the ideation campaign – make the benefits clear to all participants.

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Innovation Program Recipe for Success: The Three Essential Ingredients

Qmarkets

Along the way we have seen a wide variety of approaches and formats, from small-scale hackathons with a few hundred participants, to long term innovation programs involving tens of thousands of users. The definition of an innovation program can sometimes differ, so before we dive in let’s clarify what we mean when we use this term.

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A Collaborative Product Development Stage Gate

IdeaScale

So a company that provides silica and sand based products actually has a wide range of innovation opportunities as they build out their product portfolio. Here’s an example workflow from the Product Innovation campaign: Team Review: Sub teams comprising cross-functional Subject Matter Experts (SME-T) are established.