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.

Five Perspectives of Innovation Management Maturity

The success of innovation management is never an accident; it’s a holistic management process with an iterative thought-out planning and execution continuum.

Ideascale2019-11-13T12:28:32-08:00November 20th, 2019|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Enabling Factors, Idea Management, Leadership, Organization & Culture, Strategies, Support for SMEs|Tags: breakthrough innovation, Change Management, Collaboration, Competition, Creativity, delivery, diversity, idea management, Ideation, incremental innovation, Innovation Management, innovation process, innovation success, risk intelligence, risk management, speed|

Social Media Pictures Led Stalker to His Victim’s Home: How to Avoid Risk Online

Expert Provides Tips on How to Protect Yourself and Your Photos Online

Ideascale2019-11-13T11:56:43-08:00November 19th, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: digital privacy, harassment, security|

Top 5 Innovative Trends in Event Management

Whether you operate as a small-scale startup and visit conferences and seminars personally or are looking for ways to innovate within your own event management process, implementing new and interesting trends into the pipeline can prove highly beneficial.

Ideascale2019-11-12T16:55:29-08:00November 18th, 2019|Categories: Training & Education|Tags: advertising, authenticity, chatbot, communications, event management, events, events management, HR, human resources, marketing, networking, personalization, promotional materials, workshops|

The Boring Parts of Digital Innovation, or 3 Reasons Why Testing Matters

When it comes to innovation in an enterprise setting, the majority of attention usually goes to all the exciting things. The bold ideas, the grand technological possibilities, the potential benefits of digital and structural transformation, the trailblazing.

Ideascale2019-11-18T11:32:55-08:00November 15th, 2019|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: Best Practices, digital innovation, innovation sustainability, Software Development, testing|

Vision for 2020: 5 Innovative Marketing Strategies to Try Out in the New Year

With each new year, marketers think about the success and failures of the current year, as well as what they're going to do better during the next.

Ideascale2019-12-09T09:36:45-08:00November 14th, 2019|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: advertising, brand awareness, chatbots, content marketing, influence, marketing, sponsorship, trends, video marketing|

Spotless: An Innovation Roadmap

Bridie Scott is an Innovation Manager at Spotless and she’s taken the business on a journey from a large-scale company with big goals to a company that is listening to and empowering all of their frontline employees in the innovation process.

Ideascale2019-11-04T18:50:19-08:00November 13th, 2019|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Enabling Factors, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: case study, company culture, Employee Engagement, front end of innovation, idea management, Ideation, Innovation Management, innovation process, innovation skills, reinvention, revitalization, training|

The 3 C’s: Complex Problem Solving, Creativity and Critical Thinking – Core Soft Skills Required in the Workplace of the 4th Industrial Revolution

The next in our series on the 4th Industrial Revolution, from the Business Optimization Training Institute (BOTI). Start with Part I here.

Ideascale2019-12-05T07:04:23-08:00November 8th, 2019|Categories: Enabling Factors, Trend Alert|Tags: 4th industrial revolution, complex problem solving, Creativity, critical thinking, Problem Solving, soft skills|

Why Experiential Marketing Is A Must In 2020

Consumers are no longer excited by traditional commercials, including display ads, banner ads, and native ads. In fact, these ads are causing a pandemic known as “ad fatigue” and symptoms range from disinterest, boredom, and more. The problem is worsening.

Ideascale2019-11-04T14:35:37-08:00October 29th, 2019|Categories: Strategies|Tags: customer behavior, customer engagement, customer interaction, customer involvement, event marketing, experiential marketing, marketing|

6 Future-focused Ways Technology Will Affect Customer Service

For as long as businesses have existed, so has customer service. With each advance in technology, it appears the way organisations deliver customer service has evolved. Similarly, customers themselves have grown to expect faster responses, at almost all times of day.

Ideascale2019-12-17T05:44:11-08:00October 28th, 2019|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: AI, bots, customer engagement, customer service, instant messaging, self service, video|

Innovation Via the Customer Journey

Innovation is usually spoken of in relation to products, research, and development. However, every aspect of your business can be innovated. In fact, one of the most important – and often overlooked – is customer service. Innovative customer service helps you build loyalty, encourages repeat business, and can also bring in new buyers as they observe how you care for your consumers.

Ideascale2019-10-22T15:47:32-07:00October 25th, 2019|Categories: Strategies|Tags: ar, augmented reality, company culture, customer engagement, customer experience, customer service, disruption, Innovation Culture, Problem Solving, process improvement, sustainable innovation, vr|

How Idea Management can Help Advance Workplace Neurodiversity

Awareness of neurodiversity has certainly increased over the past few years and workplaces are gradually becoming more accommodating and accepting of neurodiverse employees. But after years of neglect and of neurodiverse candidates being overlooked for roles for which they are inherently suited, there is still a lot of progress that needs to be made.

Ideascale2019-10-17T09:52:02-07:00October 24th, 2019|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: accessibility, aspergers syndrome, autism, diversity, employee development, Employee Engagement, Employee Enrichment, neurodiversity, neurotypical, skills building, skills development, team building|

A Climate and Ecological Crisis Demands Humanity Centred Design

Human-Centred Design has served us well as an innovation strategy over the last decades, making things better for people and more profitable for business. Today there is growing and widespread concern about the impacts of all this innovation on a third ‘P’ – the Planet. To innovate for a sustainable future we must transform our model from Human-Centred to Humanity-Centred Design.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:29:12-07:00October 22nd, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: climate change, design, design innovation, human centered design, humanity centered design, Stakeholders, sustainability, sustainable innovation|

Five Takeaways from Our Innovation Conversation with Clorox

IdeaScale hosts a monthly podcast with innovation leaders, intrapreneurs, and other game changers out there. This past month our interviewee was Dr. Navin Kunde who currently leads the Open Innovation group at The Clorox Company, a US-based consumer goods company in the Fortune 500.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:29:12-07:00October 21st, 2019|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: action, decision making, idea management, Ideation, innovation, inspiration, Interview, leadership, podcast, storytelling, value|

Psychology Tips to Get Honest Feedback from Your Employees

Learn four essential tips that employers and HR departments should consider when trying to get honest input from their employees.

Ideascale2019-10-17T09:20:13-07:00October 18th, 2019|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: company culture, Employee Engagement, employee feedback, feedback, innovation psychology, leadership, listening, Problem Solving|

Why Every Business Needs Female Marketers to Steer an Inclusive Strategy

Decision-makers can create a more equitable – and profitable – work environment by promoting gender equality – starting with the marketing business unit.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:29:13-07:00October 17th, 2019|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Employee Engagement, leadership, marketing, team building|