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Idea Management: Learning When and How to Say “Enough”

IdeaScale

We all know intellectually that sometimes projects fail, but that doesn’t necessarily make it easier when it’s our project that fails. If you have ever had to scrap a project, you’re in good company. Over one-third of projects fail , either not meeting their business intent, missing timelines, or going over budget.

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Calculating the ROI for Your Idea Management System Launch

IdeaScale

How is your idea management software performing? This is a particular struggle for innovation departments and committees launching an idea management system, who often need to come up with KPIs and metrics to explain what they’re doing and how it benefits the company. How do you measure the intangible?

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How Has Idea Management Changed Since IdeaScale Launched?

IdeaScale

The questions ranged across a variety of subjects like how we hired our first few team members to our thoughts about the future of innovation management. But some of the questions made us think how has idea management changed since we launched? Later Stage Idea Development. How do you think idea management has changed?

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Does Your Idea Management Software Go the Distance?

IdeaScale

It’s easier to begin a project than to take it to fulfillment and easier to rest on your laurels than to keep pushing. We’ve all learned this, whether it’s that new hobby or a newly launched business, and it also applies to ideas. In the beginning stages, collecting ideas is easy.

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Get 35 Idea Management Tips With This Free Guidebook

Today, innovation and idea management are no longer a magic science mastered by a few innovation gurus. As CIOs, innovation managers, and project leaders, we need to evolve alongside them. We need to develop a new way of doing things - a modern approach to managing ideas.

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The 3 Most Common Questions about Idea Management Software

IdeaScale

Here are the three most common questions about idea management software that I encounter each day: 1. Yes, for an internal employee facing project you do. We encourage them to project into the future to consider their plan for executing on ideas. In 2017 I’m talking through the same concerns as I was 6 years ago.

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The Road to Innovation: Capricorn’s Idea Management Journey in the Automotive Aftermarket Industry

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Just over a year ago, Capricorn launched its first ever idea management platform, with Qmarkets software as the engine. The new program fuels innovation at Capricorn in a way that perfectly aligns with its cooperative principles – by asking its people to share their ideas and work together to bring them to life.