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Rob Hoehn is the co-founder and CEO of IdeaScale: the largest open innovation software platform in the world. Hoehn launched crowdsourcing software as part of the open government initiative and IdeaScale’s robust portfolio now includes many other industry notables, such as EA Sports, NBC, NASA, Xerox and many others. Prior to IdeaScale, Hoehn was Vice President of Client Services at Survey Analytics.

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What Impact Did 2020 Have on Innovation?

2020 revealed our fragility and our capacity for adaptation, and what IdeaScale's 2021 State of Crowdsourced Innovation report reveals is improved innovation capability from faster implementation rates to more engaged leadership. Let's look at some trends and takeaways from this year's report.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-04-04T21:21:14-07:00April 6th, 2021|Categories: Report|Tags: adjacent innovation, crowdsourced innovation, crowdsourced innovation report, idea implementation, innovation budget, innovation report, transformational innovation|

How Do Organizations Typically Gather New Ideas?

Even the most fledgling innovation program have a research component. Innovation research guides decision making, problem statements, idea generation, solution sourcing, and several other points in the innovation lifecycle. And when it comes to research there are lots of ways to get the data that you need - but two common ways are surveys and crowdsourcing.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:36:56-07:00March 22nd, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Crowdsourcing, surveys|

How Does an Employee-Owned Fortune 500 Company Manage Their Innovation Lab?

Graybar is a Fortune 500 corporation and one of the largest employee-owned companies in North America. They are a leader in the distribution of communications and data networking products – even if you don’t know Graybar off the top of your head, you’ve probably been in contact with their products.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:36:57-07:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: Employee Engagement, innovation lab, innovation program, student engagement|

How Are Agile and Innovation Related?

Organizations everywhere are working to form agile cultures. What does it mean to be agile?

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:36:59-07:00February 8th, 2021|Categories: Training & Education|Tags: Agile, agile culture, continuous improvement|

What Local Government Can Do with Crowdsourced Innovation

If you look up Westminster, Colorado, you’ll find a university that looks like a castle, a bell tower intentionally made to look like Big Ben, and pictures of smart and cozy suburban homes sitting at the feet of the Rocky Mountains.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:00-07:00February 1st, 2021|Categories: Podcast|

What Do Innovation Maturity Assessments Have in Common?

Building a repeatable model for innovation is a journey, not a trophy. An innovation department builds services and competencies across multiple disciplines – from research to communications and culture. And even with a dedicated innovation department, they must cooperate seamlessly with other parts of the business in order to deliver meaningful results on an ongoing basis.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:00-07:00January 18th, 2021|Categories: Enabling Factors, Strategies, Support for SMEs, Training & Education|Tags: innovation maturity assessment, innovation roadmap, innovation success|

What Can We Learn from the Innovation Averages in 2020?

Every year, IdeaScale conducts an in-depth study of their customer trends in order to write an annual report, provide benchmarks to our clients (and ourselves), and better understand the marketplace. This data gathering and analysis takes up the better part of our first quarter and our report is generally published in March, but 2020 is a unique year for the crowdsourced innovation community (and indeed for everyone in the world).

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:01-07:00January 11th, 2021|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: coronavirus, covid-19, Crowdsourcing, Ideation, innovation process, innovation workflow, pivot, Problem Solving, survey, trends|

How McKinsey’s Organizational Health Index Relates to Innovation

McKinsey's Organizational Health Index (OHI) is an exhaustive assessment of an organization’s effectiveness and its management’s performance based on an organization-wide survey. It’s a tool that numerous public and private sector organizations have leveraged in order to benchmark their company’s health, align around core areas of improvement, and improve overall organizational performance.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:01-07:00December 21st, 2020|Categories: Organization & Culture, Podcast|Tags: bottom-up innovation, Collaboration, idea collection, inclusive innovation, innovation management software, innovation management solution, mckinsey organizational health index, ohi, organizational health index|

What Are the Three C’s of Organizational Change?

I hadn’t thought much about health pathology innovation until we started to work with a statewide health pathology service in Australia. They provide pathology, forensic, and analytical services for hospitals and justice systems throughout their state.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:02-07:00December 14th, 2020|Categories: Organization & Culture, Podcast|Tags: capability, Communication, culture, employee recognition, incremental change, intrapreneurship, organizational change, recognition, training, transformative change|

What Can We Learn from NASA About Crowdsourcing in a Pandemic?

When COVID-19 shut down the United States in 2020, everyone wanted to be a part of the solution. At NASA, the entire NASA workforce expressed their desire to help the nation combat the virus – even though most of their employees were asked to work from home.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:06-07:00November 23rd, 2020|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Idea Management|Tags: case study, communication strategy, Crowdsourcing, NASA|

What is a Virtual Innovation Lab?

The Virginia Department of Transportation created their own Virtual Innovation Lab, where they collaborate to solve problems related to remote work, engineering topics, safety, and more with the help of their entire distributed workforce. Learn more in this December 15th webinar!

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:09-07:00November 9th, 2020|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, Employee Engagement, innovation lab, innovation management software, remote work, SaaS, virtual innovation lab, work from home|

How Does Diversity and Inclusion Impact Innovation?

Nearly all executives believe the long-term success of their business depends on the flow, testing, and development of new ideas. One of the problems is the old belief in the “creative genius” – that creativity and innovation belongs to a talented few and not to everyone.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:14-07:00October 19th, 2020|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: diversity, equity, groupthink, inclusion|

When Discovering Customer Needs, How Do You Get Beyond Survey Bias?

When Yamaha conducts research to drive product development, they've found opportunities in previously unexplored areas of incremental change. Learn more in this podcast interview.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:17-07:00September 21st, 2020|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Podcast, Training & Education|

What Do Leading Innovators Do Differently

Every year, IdeaScale hosts the global Innovation Management Awards and honors winners in three different categories: engagement, process, and implementation. We see these categories as the cornerstones of any successful innovation program, so the winners this year actually excel at each of these things.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:18-07:00September 9th, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: award, Employee Engagement, gamification, hackathon, innovation program, professional development, recognition|

Using Innovation to Improve Your McKinsey Organizational Health Index Score

2020 proved just how important our relationships to banks and credit unions are as they worked to rapidly respond to the changing financial needs of their customers.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:18-07:00August 17th, 2020|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture, Podcast, Support for SMEs|Tags: bank, bottom-up innovation, credit union, Crowdsourcing, customer experience, diversity, diversity and inclusion, Employee Engagement, employee innovation, inclusion, mckinsey organizational health index, Open Innovation, optimism, podcast, technology adoption|