IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. 53% of the innovation programs are focused on leveraging the collective wisdom of employees. Improve innovation leadership. Scale innovation programs.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

But what is crowdsourcing, and why are so many organizations using it to drive innovation? Crowdsourcing allows businesses to gather ideas, insights, or solutions from a large, distributed group rather than relying solely on internal expertise. But first, lets cover the basics. What Is Crowdsourcing?

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IdeaScale

MAY 9, 2018

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.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 20, 2018

Engaging people in innovation is at the heart of what we do at IdeaScale. “Create content and messages that appeal to particular interest groups. “Always share the “whys” behind the ideation campaign – make the benefits clear to all participants. ” -Sarah Carruthers, Sheetz. ” -Mike McCaw, NYU.

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Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

Innovation is critical for businesses of all shapes and sizes, from launching a first product to making a new global acquisition. However corporate innovation is often the most complex and challenging due to its scale and scope. Success in corporate innovation requires a thoughtful approach to overcoming these obstacles.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 18, 2025

How do you build momentum behind an innovation program while navigating the complexities of a merger and integrating new teams? Sometimes, innovation success stories can be a bit myopic, focusing too narrowly on a single shiny campaign or headline-worthy results. Leadership commitment to innovation is unmistakable.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 23, 2017

Very few innovation programs have the luxury of waiting multiple years before delivering quantifiable results. Measuring innovation requires partners. Demonstrating the effects of a strong innovation program typically depend on active involvement from other units and functions in the company. Process efficiencies.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 30, 2017

An Idea Challenge is a structured process to collect new ideas from large groups of people – employees, customers, partners, or other stakeholders. Though they often deliver some success, organizations often struggle to take the challenge beyond the initial project, and into a complete innovation program.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This is the belief of Vlora Muslimi, Senior Manager at TD Bank Group, who’s responsible for the organization’s iD8 program- a formalized way of fostering innovation across all areas of the bank. As Vlora notes, the presence of an open ideation forum within iD8 enables employees to submit any innovation idea as it occurs to them.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ideation on its own isn’t enough to drive innovation outcomes—and could even be a waste of resources if not governed properly. Solution: Drive Outcomes With Portfolio Management Discipline Imagine a thriving innovation program. Leaders have established clear goals for all innovation efforts. But what happens next?

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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. Take the following innovation management process for example.

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Planview

JANUARY 30, 2018

One popular New Year’s Resolution is getting fit – so here at Spigit, we wanted to share with you a series about how to get “Innovation Fit” in 2018 to ensure your innovation program is set up for success. In fitness terms, I equate this to working out with friends, partners, or groups. Scale is good.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

“Innovation” is often discussed in terms of the “idea” as the product and the formation of that idea as somehow unique and ineffable …. 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.

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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. What has happened here?

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Planview

MARCH 20, 2019

A culture of innovation relies on employee engagement and a shared vision for a company’s success. When innovation becomes part of a company’s culture, amazing things can happen. It not only generates sustained ideation, but innovation flourishes when employees feel valued, included, and heard.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 10, 2021

SH: So four years ago, our CEO, Mark Clement, started the Bright Ideas program (he actually did a smaller version of this at the healthcare system he worked at prior). We called them “JDIs” (just do its) or “DIGs” (Do-it-groups – where you work with a small group to come up with your idea and implement it).

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Lack of clearly defined innovation metrics. Call your shot.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As an innovation manager, you’re tasked with the challenging responsibility of leading the development and implementation of new ideas, products, and initiatives that will drive growth and competitiveness for your company.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

The biggest challenges in corporate innovation and how to navigate them Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. Vision & Leadership 1.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Yet, there’s a problem of cosmic proportions in the world of PMO (Project Management Office), as evidenced by the distress signal sent from the CHAOS Report of The Standish Group: Only 29% of projects touch down successfully —on time, within budget, and with satisfying outcomes. Follow me on LinkedIn.

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Planview

MARCH 21, 2018

As you’ll see in the below conversation with Forts, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is one organization that’s taking a proactive approach to innovation. 2018 is in full swing, are there any trends in innovation or technology that you’re excited about exploring as it relates to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s innovation program?

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Planview

MAY 17, 2018

Crowdsourced innovation programs are maturing. Companies are moving beyond optimizing for ideation. They’re now putting more focus on the impact their programs are having on their company’s bottom line. Frequent communication is an absolute must for successful crowdsourced innovation programs.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 8, 2017

The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator. Training, a skilled facilitator, and frequent practice are essential to effective ideation sessions and creating a broad and systemic organizational innovation culture. Creative training is the fuel for innovation fire.

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Planview

APRIL 29, 2019

If you are reading this blog, you know that ideation and engaging the power of the crowd is at the heart of any innovation program. Planview Spigit is conducting the fourth annual State of Crowdsourced Innovation Management survey and study. The 2018 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Findings. What’s new?

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Corporate innovation is hard. More and more, we’re seeing innovation programs close their doors after only a few years, with few senior leaders in the organization recognizing any real value from their efforts. No compelling vision or reason to innovate. Lack of clearly defined innovation metrics. Call your shot.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

This public* course is at a significant discount to on-site courses delivered directly to organizations by Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi). The emphasis of this training is a firm grounding in innovation concepts and best practice. It builds awareness of the how and why of innovation programs. Tools for problem framing.

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

Pfizer, who has been a Spigit customer for the past five years, has turned its innovation program into a key initiative that has helped the company succeed in multiple ways, including developing new products and driving high employee engagement. In previous years, the hackathon was run with a small group from Premera’s IT department.

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Planview

JULY 20, 2018

Pfizer, who has been a Spigit customer for the past five years, has turned its innovation program into a key initiative that has helped the company succeed in multiple ways, including developing new products and driving high employee engagement. In previous years, the hackathon was run with a small group from Premera’s IT department.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Awesome new ideas are what make an innovation program…well, an innovation program. But it’s the tools you use that help those ideas become reality and bring about tangible returns — tools like innovation management software (and for some, a new way of thinking about innovation altogether).

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Be-novative

APRIL 1, 2020

These tips are from more than 500 remote collaboration and ideation workshops we have facilitated virtually. These were ideation sessions for large enterprise employees, virtual Design Sprints including startups and mentors. Ideation, 4. Let’s assume that the workshop is about a creative problem-solving on a specific challenge.

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Be-novative

APRIL 1, 2020

These tips are from more than 500 remote collaboration and ideation workshops we have facilitated virtually. These were ideation sessions for large enterprise employees, virtual Design Sprints including startups and mentors. Ideation, 4. The perfect group size is 3–5 people online to make sure everyone gets the chance to speak.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

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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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

And this where the second stage of the innovation process, ideation, comes in. Rather than depending on a few ideas, you open it up to larger group internally or externally. The next step of the innovation process would be execution, where the ideas are evaluated and the best ones are shortlisted. Hackathons are swift.

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Innov8rs

MAY 19, 2024

Nowhere is this more important than innovation, where great things rarely happen without a group of focused, talented people coming together to experiment with new ideas. Some might prefer to spend time on ideation, while others are keen to get going with developing and implementing a solution.

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KindlingApp

JUNE 18, 2015

In a recent Forbes interview, Garry Lyons, CIO of MasterCard, shared his team’s mantra: “ Innovation without execution is only ideation.” This is an apt principle for a CIO’s team because it states the goal of any innovation initiative: to narrow your idea pipeline into a strong core of implementable ideas. Feature Breakdown.

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Planview

MARCH 30, 2017

Spigit recently hosted an Innovation Forum with global consumer goods manufacturer Li & Fung in Hong Kong. An exclusive group of innovation leaders convened for an evening of sharing best practices and in-depth discussions about innovation programs. Create an environment where collaboration and ideation thrive.

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Planview

MARCH 30, 2017

Spigit recently hosted an Innovation Forum with global consumer goods manufacturer Li & Fung in Hong Kong. An exclusive group of innovation leaders convened for an evening of sharing best practices and in-depth discussions about innovation programs. Create an environment where collaboration and ideation thrive.

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