Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Well also examine the common challenges businesses face during implementation, share effective strategies to bridge the gap between ideation and execution, and discuss how idea management software can accelerate and simplify this journey. Without these, even the best ideas risk failure.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This article explores the essentials of developing an effective open innovation strategy and the role of innovation management software in executing it, including tools for idea management, technology scouting, and trend management. What Is an Open Innovation Strategy?

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Originally rooted in software development, hackathons have evolved into a strategic tool across industries, fostering creativity, team collaboration, and idea generation under tight timeframes. Inspires Innovation : Rapid idea generation and prototyping can yield viable solutions.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Finally, well look at how idea management software helps organizations structure and scale their crowdsourcing initiatives for maximum impact. The definition of crowdsourcing refers to the process of obtaining ideas, solutions, or services from a large, distributed group of people, typically through an open call.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Innovation management software is expected to continue to evolve and improve in the coming years. Increased integration with other business tools, such as project management and collaboration software. Some trends that are likely to continue include: Greater focus on user experience and ease of use.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 11, 2022

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Maybe you’ve found that your idea management participants aren’t yielding as many good ideas as in the past.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Intersection of Digital Strategy and Innovation Management Digital strategy and innovation management are intrinsically linked, with each depending on the other to drive meaningful transformation and sustainable competitive advantage.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Intersection of Digital Strategy and Innovation Management Digital strategy and innovation management are intrinsically linked, with each depending on the other to drive meaningful transformation and sustainable competitive advantage.

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Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

Employee ideas are the backbone of any corporate innovation initiative, and therefore a strong idea generation process that can be scaled across your organization is key. If your idea challenge is very detailed and asks many specific questions, you will get less ideas, but they will be of higher quality.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

Sparking creativity and generating groundbreaking ideas often requires more than just inspiration—it demands a structured approach. Ideation techniques serve as powerful tools for unlocking creativity, enabling teams to think outside the box and explore new possibilities.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Idea Generation Once the problem is defined, the next step is idea generation, where teams brainstorm a wide range of potential solutions. This is where tools like brainstorming sessions, crowdsourcing platforms, and collaborative workshops play a significant role in capturing innovative ideas from diverse perspectives.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

Ideation sessions have become an essential tool for businesses striving to stay ahead. These sessions aren’t just about generating ideas; they’re about fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration that can lead to breakthrough solutions. What Is an Ideation Session?

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Wazoku

AUGUST 17, 2018

We’ve helped companies completely transform themselves through idea management, but for many businesses it’s still a new concept, and a hard thing to get right. Idea management is the process of generating, collating, analysing and implementing ideas that solve real business problems, as part of a wider innovation strategy.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 7, 2020

As such, PMI implemented an innovation management platform to align all departments and reshape company culture to address this radical goal. Amplify Idea Generation You can’t address the question ‘what is total idea management’ without emphasising the importance of crowdsourcing ideas. million USD by 2022.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Sins That Ruin Idea Generation. ” Well, you bother because you need ideas. Stretch the idea generation work out over a week or more. The session should include a variety of brainstorming tools (see #8). Design of the session should include introvert-friendly tools (see #9).

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Qmarkets

JULY 25, 2024

Key activities in effective innovation management include: Strategy Development: Aligning innovation initiatives with the company’s strategic goals and vision. Idea Generation and Capture: Creating an environment that encourages new ideas from all levels of the organization.

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Qmarkets

JULY 18, 2024

To navigate successfully, you need the right tools and a well-coordinated crew. For businesses, innovation software serves as the modern compass, map, and crew management system combined. While some companies may start with basic tools like spreadsheets, these often fall short in managing the complexities of true innovation.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Covia provides high-performance crystalline silica sand to the petroleum and other industries, and they used IdeaScale to gather employee ideas at all organizational levels. The company’s old idea generation process was manual and organized according to department. Workflows Can Help Tremendously when Prioritizing Ideas.

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ITONICS

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the relentless pursuit of innovation, the ability to generate ideas and validate groundbreaking concepts swiftly is the key differentiator between companies that thrive and those that merely survive. Enter Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs), a technological marvel transcending traditional brainstorming methods.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Many of us innovation practitioners have found that the business topic of innovation is increasingly devolving into a search for that one magic idea that will change your enterprise, sort of like a more mature version of Pokemon-Go. Idea production telemetry uncovers how your organisation ‘thinks’ – not only what it thinks, but how.

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Qmarkets

JULY 31, 2023

Qmarkets’ innovation management software facilitates idea generation, evaluation and implementation, collaboration, and data analysis. About Qmarkets Managing innovation at large company is never easy. But it doesn’t have to be so hard. That’s where we come in.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Having geeky friends as a teenager and freelancing for an idea generation company, I was always surrounded with people full of ideas. Part of my studies in product development and innovation management at ETH, was a reflection on what creativity was and how it could be understood and handled. Use the whole potential.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Having geeky friends as a teenager and freelancing for an idea generation company, I was always surrounded with people full of ideas. Part of my studies in product development and innovation management at ETH, was a reflection on what creativity was and how it could be understood and handled. Use the whole potential.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Provide your employees with innovation training programs and innovation mindset training to equip them with the tools they need to contribute effectively to your innovation goals. Recognize employees who bring forward innovative ideas or solutions. Features Benefits Idea Submission Simplifies the process of proposing new ideas.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Its rapid expansion from a small, family-run wholesale goods business in 1928 into a multinational conglomerate with 30,000 employees, can be attributed in part to the creative – and ingenious – ways it has crowdsourced ideas from employees. We form the ‘Centre of Excellence’ for idea management at the company.

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Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

Finally, we’ll argue that dedicated idea management software is the optimal solution, concluding with an overview of Q-ideate’s features and benefits. What is an Ideas Platform? An ideas platform is a system or tool designed to capture, manage, and develop ideas within an organization.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2023

We won a few small projects at first and had the idea that what companies needed was a great place to store and manage ideas, so we built an online idea generation and brainstorming platform, and an idea management solution, which completed with industry leaders BrightIdea and Spigit and Imaginatik back when.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

It includes an overview of key frameworks ( Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, CPS ) and their essential tools. In addition, it covers management mandates, project cycles, resourcing, idea management systems, idea generation, concept development, prototyping, and pitch presentations.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

From a personal standpoint, ideation serves as a powerful tool for creativity and growth. Training and workshops can also be effective in equipping employees with the tools and techniques needed to generate and refine ideas. What is Ideation’s Value?

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Qmarkets

JULY 12, 2024

Additionally, we will discuss the advantages of using dedicated idea management software to streamline the ideation process and enhance collaboration. The combination of face-to-face interaction and digital collaboration tools enhances the richness of discussions and ensures a comprehensive ideation process.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

While each type offers unique benefits, the real challenge lies in managing the vast number of ideas generated during these events—before, during, and after the hackathon itself. That’s where idea management software plays a crucial role. This is where software dedicated to idea management becomes invaluable.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. New tools for digital technology integration are presented including GFi’s Digital MoshPit. Training is how you accelerate innovation.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 28, 2017

Companies that embrace digital transformation (as all companies should be doing) will make use of digital tools to consolidate not just the ideation process, but will also take advantage of those tools to add expert reviews, evaluation metrics and internal/external testing, to bring an idea all the way from conception to implementation.

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Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2024

Effective trend management ensures that organizations remain relevant and competitive in a constantly evolving landscape. Tools and techniques such as trend reports, market analysis, and future forecasting are essential components of this process. Ensure these guidelines are accessible and easy to understand.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

I recently sat down with our customer success team, who help our customers excel in their idea management and innovation programmes, establish and share innovation best practice and work with our customers to truly embed innovation as a core, strategic, every day capability, within their organisations.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 2, 2024

An innovation process model is a structured framework that outlines the steps involved in taking an idea or solution from concept to implementation. It encompasses the entire lifecycle of innovation, including stages such as idea generation, development, testing, and commercialization.

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