Ideascale, Author at InnovationManagement

About Ideascale

IdeaScale is the largest cloud-based innovation software platform in the world with more than 25,000 customers and 4 million users. The software allows organizations to involve the opinions of public and private communities by collecting their ideas and giving users a platform to vote. The ideas are then evaluated, routed, and implemented, making IdeaScale the engine of crowd-powered innovation. IdeaScale’s client roster includes industry leaders, such as Adobe, Cisco, the Department of Homeland Security, Marriott, the US Navy, NBC, Xerox, and many more.

Quantum Computing, Zen Philosophy and Space-Time

The up-and-coming field of quantum computing, currently in a prototype phase, will probably be an innovation with exponential and wide-ranging impacts in the power and speed of information technology. There are some interesting parallels between the behavior of quantum computing particles, or qubits, and basic principles of Zen Buddhist philosophy. Like modern physics, this article employs a “space-time” concept of innovation, with implications for the process and intensity of new idea development within organizations.

Ideascale2021-12-20T11:19:24-08:00January 13th, 2020|Categories: Training & Education|Tags: Communication, computers, connections, Creativity, daoism, holistic view, Ideation, innovation, innovation philosophy, learning, openness, quantum computing, space-time, Zen, Zen philosophy|

How To Confront Your Office Creativity Vampire

You won't find your office's creativity vampire hiding in the dark supply closet or hanging from the ceiling for a snooze.

Ideascale2021-12-20T11:18:36-08:00January 3rd, 2020|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: creativity vampire|

How Is Digital Innovation Changing Marketing?

In 2013, Adobe conducted a comprehensive research study and found that 76% of marketers believe that marketing changed more in the past 2 years than in the previous 50. Digital technologies were changing rapidly, impacting how marketers build their strategies and market to their audiences. Today, fast digital innovation has been replaced with the strategic implementation of new technologies in marketing.

Ideascale2021-12-20T11:17:14-08:00December 17th, 2019|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, branding, chatbot, digital innovation, marketing, personal assistant, personalization, smart devices, storytelling, voice search, vr|

The Four Forms of Crowdsourcing

There are four ways to crowdsource answers to your innovation challenges: garden variety crowdsourcing, distant expert sourcing, expert targeting, and force multiplying.

Ideascale2021-12-20T11:16:51-08:00December 16th, 2019|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Podcast, Strategies|Tags: Creativity, Crowdsourcing, innovation drivers, safety, solutions|

Innovative Ways for Your Employees to “Always Be Learning”

One of the most significant investments any business can make is in its staff. This goes beyond the simple fact of paying for salaries and benefits, however — in order to be a truly valuable element of a company, employees must be genuinely nurtured.

Ideascale2021-12-20T11:15:29-08:00December 9th, 2019|Categories: Training & Education|Tags: chief learning officer, ed-tech, elearning, Employee Engagement, employee training, learning, learning programs, networking, professional development, skills development, vr|

Four Ways Data is Improving Healthcare

Harnessing medical data can, and will, improve healthcare, writes GE Healthcare President and CEO Kieran Murphy in the GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX 2019. This article is part of a series about the power of innovation to solve social and economic challenges. Stories and statistics are drawn from the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index 2019.

Ideascale2021-12-20T11:14:09-08:00December 6th, 2019|Categories: News|

May the 4th Industrial Revolution be with You, Part 5: ‘Money’s too Tight to Mention’

This article is the fifth in a series which takes an in-depth look at how the changes brought about by the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution are playing out on the world stage and how these changes are literally revolutionising the way things are done both at home and in the workplace.

Ideascale2021-12-20T10:31:52-08:00December 5th, 2019|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: 4th industrial revolution, banking, digitization, fintech, job cuts, trends|

Four Innovation Themes from Open Nation 2019

Every year, IdeaScale hosts innovation leaders and creative thinkers from around the world in a global summit that shares innovation best practices. These leaders share success stories, failures, challenges, and solutions as they get to know each other so that they can call on one another throughout the year (long after the event is over).