Collaborative Innovation

Opening the Floodgates of Innovation: Insights from Deloitte Innovation Day

Take a quick glance around your office. What do you see? Categorically “Start-up” types in t-shirts and jeans passing bottles of craft beer around? Or “Suits”, with their collars starched to perfection, hunched over their laptops and scrambling away at emails? What would happen if we flipped these scenarios around? I for one, would love to see my accountant rock up to work in a Hawaiian Shirt; a calculator in one hand, and a piña colada in the other. But what difference would this make?

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:54:09-08:00June 27th, 2016|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, Change Management, Collaboration, disruptive innovation, Innovation Culture, intrapreneur, lessons learned, motivation, reward, sustainable growth, Teamwork|

Digital Shoring for Networked Innovation

Companies are under pressure to innovate faster than ever, and collaboration beyond organizational boundaries is central to accelerated innovation. But few companies navigate collaboration well—or even find the right path to get started. To move forward, companies must change their operating models to enable “digital shoring,” the latest evolution of organizational “shoring” approaches.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:22:06-07:00May 6th, 2016|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Report|Tags: case study, digital platform, download, global market, in-depth article, innovation networks, IP & patent, report, research|

How Innovation Develops Among Individuals in Niche Social Networks

In the current digital arena, social networks have touched the lives of almost every human being on earth, allowing us to share life's novelties with friends and loved ones. However, social networks are not restricted to sharing and commenting on pictures, but giving rise to innovation among individuals to help make our world a better place.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:01-08:00February 11th, 2016|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Enabling Factors, Strategies|Tags: Crowdsourcing, Ideation, Innovation Management, innovation networks, niche, social media, social networks|

Collaborative Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing: Just Getting Started

Advanced manufacturers—people who make “things”—face the same challenges in the Digital Age as their counterparts that traffic wholly in bits and bytes. Relentless immediacy. Increased transparency. In this article, the innovation architect Doug Collins reflects on the results from a survey that the analyst firm Frost & Sullivan conducted as part of the Manufacturing Leadership Council. What are the more advanced of the advanced manufacturing thinking these days about the practice of collaborative innovation? Are they on track?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:22:27-07:00November 24th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Enabling Factors|Tags: co-creation, collaborative innovation, Crowdsourcing, customer engagement, Innovation Management, innovation process, manufacturing, nordic manufacturing, Problem Solving, Product Development|

Going Once, Going Twice, Going Three Times: Selling Your Idea

People cannot appreciate the value your idea offers if you fail to convey its relative advantage. In this article, the innovation architect Doug Collins shares a simple, good example of telling the right story at the right time to the right audience. Save this one for your clip file.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:22:28-07:00November 12th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Idea Management, Life Cycle Processes|Tags: collaborative innovation, Communication, idea presentation, Ideation, innovation process, pitch|

Innovation Decimation: Refined Sugar and the iPhone

I see no value in waiting until New Year’s Day to resolve to improve myself. “Now is as good as time as any,” makes more sense to me. Last month I resolved to make two changes which, if I succeed in maintaining the alterations, promise to benefit me. In this article, I share my view on these changes, the immediate effect they have had on me, and their relation to the practice of collaborative innovation.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:22:30-07:00October 27th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: collaborative innovation, incremental improvements, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovation process, mindfulness, personal development, sugar|

5 Advantages to Crowdsourced Innovation Management

At the beginning of the twentieth century, research and development was a highly guarded and elite practice. Imagine laboratories peopled by white-coated scientists who had passwords to protect the doors to their office. This kind of research and innovation was highly successful for a long time – it gave us electrocardiography, DNA fingerprinting, and many Apple products.

Rob Hoehn2019-10-15T15:22:33-07:00September 28th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Crowdsourcing, customer engagement, Employee Engagement, globalization, IdeaScale, Innovation Management, millennial, Open Innovation|

The Creative Destruction of Your Job

The rise of crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, crowdtransporting, crowdletting, etc., has transformed our economy. It has also ushered in the era of the shared economy. Previously marginalized people can now contribute, no matter how small, to all walks of life. It seems to be a fantastic opportunity for the world to access the untapped skill of the crowd. But what about the people whose jobs this makes redundant? Whither the expert?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:01-07:00July 9th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Strategies|Tags: Business Model Innovation, collaborative consumption, crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, disruptive innovation, expertise, higher education, knowledge sharing, redundancy, shared economy, sharing economy|

Speed of Innovation – How to Master Rapid Prototyping

In the disciplined and structured process of innovation we search for unmet needs and unfulfilled desires, and when we think we find them we have to construct a sort of a mental map that defines why our proposed solution will be better than whatever currently exists. We may use the business model map to show how we’re using this innovation to move up and to the right, or we may use the customer value ladder to show how this innovation provides differentiated value. And once we’re convinced that our idea is a really good one, the next step is often prototyping.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:10-07:00May 19th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, The Innovation Formula|Tags: AB testing, agile innovation, agile project management, Creativity, Failure, groupthink, innovation networks, prototyping, serialized book, Teamwork, the innovation formula book|

Embrace or Ignore Innovation Stakeholders: A Perspective on Corporate Antibodies

The accepted approach for Corporate Innovation leaders is to secure buy-in from all stakeholders, in order to secure success. This article (first in a series) argues against this approach, aiming for a more tempered effort, that seeks enough buy-in to push forward.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:46:52-08:00April 8th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, company culture, decision making, enterprise innovation, Innovation Culture, stakeholder management, Stakeholders|

Building an Effective Corporate Incubator / Accelerator: A New Approach

With so much focus on establishing corporate innovation incubators and accelerators, more attention needs to be paid to maintaining effective employee connections back into the business units that will support the newly formed ideas.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:48:24-08:00March 17th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Idea Management, Organization & Culture|Tags: accelerator, development, employee network, enterprise innovation, incubator, incubators|

Outside / Inside Innovation: Combining Open Innovation with Employee Networks to Drive Success

As business leaders seek additional impact from Innovation Programs, new ways to leverage and scale existing resources are being explored. One approach is to link externally sourced ideas with networks of innovation-minded employees, to generate additional business impact.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:48:31-08:00February 19th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Open Innovation|Tags: collaborative innovation, Communication, download, employee network, employee networks, in-depth article, Innovation Strategy, innovation training, innovtaion network, Open Innovation, report, strategy, training program, whitepaper|

Starting an Innovation Program? A Strategic Approach to Create Success

Many innovation leaders tend to be tactically driven, but their corporate leadership is looking for more strategic planning and analysis. This tension often contributes to high turnover in innovation management roles, based on a misalignment around leadership’s expectations. In this article Anthony Ferrier suggests perspectives and actions that should be considered part of your innovation strategy plan.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:48:38-08:00February 4th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Idea Management, Leadership, Strategies|Tags: ecosystem, Innovation Management, innovation planning, measure innovation, strategic planning, strategy|

Agile Innovation: The Revolutionary Approach to Accelerate Success, Inspire Engagement, and Ignite Creativity

Charles Darwin said it quite well: “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” Innovation, collaboration, and improvisation are indeed essential forces shaping all of business and all of modern life, and they’ve become vitally important for the individual, the organization, and indeed for all of society.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:27-07:00January 12th, 2015|Categories: Agile Innovation, Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Strategies|Tags: agile innovation, agile innovation book, agile project management, Change Management, Collaboration, innovation portfolio, portfolio management, risk management, serialized book, speed of innovation|

10 Commandments of Effective Crowdsourcing

For the companies which have embraced the crowdsourcing mindset in their business processes, the motive is more than just outsourcing. It's about better collaboration, better innovation outcomes and ultimately superior value. But like many other new business models, some fail and some succeed in accomplishing this mission.

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:47:53-08:00January 7th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, collective intelligence, Crowdsourcing, customer engagement, knowledge sharing, Open Innovation, Problem Solving, reward, strategy|