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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
How to See Change Before Everyone Else
Market and social forces are challenging long held beliefs about management. For more than a century, the focus of management has been execution. We have become excellent at being increasingly efficient.
How to Figure Out What Business Intelligence Tools Your Small Business Needs
Today, nearly every action taken by a consumer generates data, and the price point of data analytics technology is now within the budget range of most small-to-mid-sized firms.
15 Things Leaders Should Not Do – if They Want Innovation
We hear plenty of advice for leaders on what they should do to drive entrepreneurship and innovation in their organizations. It might be smarter to just stop making some of the common mistakes which inhibit innovation.
Innovations in ROI for Customers: the Environmental Edition
Value propositions are a key element to success. In the modern business climate, the environmental value proposition, in particular, is uniquely effective.
4 Ways Data Can Drive Workplace Innovation
The amount of data in our world is exploding, which means data sets can be a little tricky to analyze. However, for those able to harness this beast, big data can prove a gold-mine for innovation in the workplace.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.