IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

We’re partnering up to help you drive your innovation strategy further. Ideascale and Betterific announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 7, 2017

As a consequence there is not a “one size fits all” solution – each company needs a unique plan to drive innovation and change successfully. However, successful innovation management goes beyond the research and development department. Don’t leave innovation to chance. Want to learn more?

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IdeaScale

JUNE 20, 2017

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.”. The post Managing Expectations in Innovation Management appeared first on IdeaScale.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 21, 2017

Open innovation allows everyone to compete equally, whether their development budget is large or small. What is Open Innovation. Open innovation is a paradigm shift that assumes organizations can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas to determine as path to market and advance technology.

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HYPE Innovation

AUGUST 4, 2020

This blog post is part of a series on successfully managing open innovation programs. In this series, I talk with experienced innovation managers to understand how they've built an open innovation capability in their organizations and how they strive to make this capability increasingly stronger.

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HYPE Innovation

JULY 16, 2024

Innovation management (IM) has evolved from merely managing ideas to encompassing the entire innovation lifecycle, including startup and technology scouting, trend management, open innovation, continuous improvement, employee engagement, and innovation portfolio management.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

We’re partnering up to help you drive your innovation strategy further. Ideascale and Betteriffic announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 14, 2021

What are the different types of innovation? With so many types of innovation and even more definitions, it can be confusing to discuss innovation in your organization. It seems like new innovation types arrive at the scene all of the time, leaving people reaching for Google to get up to speed. Open Innovation.

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HYPE Innovation

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Consider for a moment the following three statements: Innovation results from lucky accidents; The more open the innovation process, the less disciplined; Innovation can’t be measured. More specifically, the post is about recent developments in open innovation metrics (yes, they matter !)

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Qmarkets

JULY 20, 2022

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.” Margaret Heffernan – Entrepreneur, CEO and writer Few would disagree with the notion that innovation is driven by the sharing of good ideas. What is Open Innovation?

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The expectations towards corporate innovators are clear: deliver more results, faster, and with fewer resources. Here's our take on the top trends to watch in innovation management in 2025. What does that mean in practice?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The Winds of Change- Innovation Software facing the Innovators’ Dilemma In my research, I am getting a real sense that the current Innovation Management Software model is about to be upended and disrupted as per Clayton Christensens’ “Innovators Dilemma.”

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. Suggested reading: 13 – Budgets for Micro-Innovations.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Whitepaper called “ Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here “ This made me a little jealous and a little wishing that ‘we’, across the whole of innovation management , could not have one of these platforms available today.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 2, 2018

Spigit is a leading innovation management software company. They recently published a research paper entitled ‘Quantifying a Culture of Innovation.’ ’ Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management carried out a study of data from 154 corporate customers of Spigit over a five year period.

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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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Qmarkets

JUNE 20, 2023

Qmarkets is pleased to announce a new partnership with US-based innovation consultancy Accel IQ Digital to provide comprehensive strategic innovation services to joint clients across the United States, Brazil, and the Middle East. About Qmarkets Managing innovation at large company is never easy.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 9, 2021

Tel-Aviv, Israel — June 10, 2021 – Qmarkets, the award-winning supplier of innovation management software , has today announced its partnership with HeroX , the world’s leading platform for crowdsourced idea competitions.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I finished my last post, “ Are we EVER going to embrace innovation? ” With the argument, we need to change the innovation narrative and significantly update the innovation approach and processes to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business challenges. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to radically adjust and needs to be designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive. I’d like to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, partly considering what is potentially within our grasp, if we step back and rethink innovation design.

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eZassi

JANUARY 8, 2025

A Guide to Business Model Innovation Business model innovation is a competitive strategy offering organizations a way to redefine their value proposition, operational structure, and revenue streams. What is Business Model Innovation? Companies that fail to innovate risk being displaced by more agile competitors.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Recently, IdeaScale’s own Jeff Wong wrote about how he knows first-time innovators will be successful. Here are a handful of common mistakes I see first-time innovators making. A successful innovation effort requires a well-thought-out, cradle-to-grave communications plan. Unfortunately, there’s also a flip side to that coin.

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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? Why Should I Outsource Innovation? There’s a lot of reasons to outsource innovation work.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Moving from innovation to execution calls for more than just a good idea; it needs tools like innovation management solutions to guide it. Charting the Path Execution is one of the key struggles of any innovation strategy, in part because you generally have to work backward. Innovation is a constant journey.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A human analyst to validate technology search results, conduct crucial subject matter expert interviews , and evaluate unique ideas from experienced, creative employees and stakeholders through open innovation challenges will prove to be the best approach to a fully developed innovation management strategy.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

For corporates, open innovation is all about being transparent and public about the challenges and themes they're looking to go after and solve, and then finding the best-fit partners for that. Together we discussed what's next for open innovation and partnerships, as summarized below. What can’t be missing?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Having received some fantastic entries, we have officially chosen and are extremely pleased to share our winners for the 2016 Innovation Management Awards. JUMP stands for J oin the discussion, U nveil innovation, M otivate transformation, P romote technology-to-market. National Cancer Institute—Best Innovation.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 5, 2020

Innovation is a buzzword in the corporate world today. Successful innovation management derives from a mindset that welcomes new ideas and allows for a certain amount of risk. Risk aversion can get in the way of forming the right innovation strategy when companies pass up lucrative opportunities in favor of those that are safe.

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Strategos

JUNE 19, 2019

What is Innovation Management? Innovation Management involves all activities that provide the right conditions for innovation to repeatedly deliver value for customers, competitive advantage and growth for the business as well as benefits for employees and all other stakeholders.

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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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Exago

JANUARY 24, 2018

To invite ideas and collaboration to further catalyse impact, they have chosen Exago’s open innovation management software. In partnership with the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), Unilever is expanding its commitment to support social enterprises through the joint initiative TRANSFORM.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A new partnership between Amsterdam-based growth specialists RevelX and Qmarkets will drive strategic innovation and growth for their joint clients. Established in 2014, RevelX helps organizations to realize innovative growth. Together they combine over 200 years of experience in consulting and management.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Within INSPIRE (standing for Integrated Support of oPen Innovation pRofessionalization initiative), a Coordination and Support Action funded by the European Commission under H2020, we have investigated in depth Open Innovation (0I) practices in SMEs across Europe with a view to distilling lessons about how to improve the supply chain and deploy a dedicated (..)

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

Choosing new innovative approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion. What has been changing in how we approach innovation, and have we taken the opportunity to radically revise the innovation system and process accordingly? We need to put to use a different innovation model or approach. In my first post.”

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 22, 2017

In my double role as an innovation architect at IdeaScale and a consultant for innovation management, I rely on a variety of methods to set my clients up for success. Combining methods is one of the ways I make sure they make the most out of their innovation efforts. Let me walk you through how this might look.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 27, 2021

There are a multitude of approaches to innovation management. One key factor, however, is “open” innovation versus “closed” innovation. While the names are slightly misleading, they’re important to understand as you approach your change management strategy. In a closed innovation … Continued.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Qmarkets has launched a partnership with Swiss-based strategy and innovation consultancy hpo to strengthen strategic innovation activities in medium and large enterprises in the DACH region. The focus lies on the integrative design of strategy, business processes, business models, innovation, and culture.

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