Cross-Communication

Focused on communicating across departments, hierarchies, sectors, or industries (ex: R&D department working with Marketing department)

Smarter Networking to Improve Your Company’s Visibility

External networking serves many purposes for a company, and modern digital marketing has become a combination of marketing, customer service, and public relations. Social media and other platforms also allow industry experts and organizations to engage in public conversation about important topics, so being involved and engaged in business and local communities is vital to a company’s success in order to appeal to modern socially conscious audiences.

Ideascale2021-12-15T13:59:35-08:00October 11th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, digital economy, leadership skills, networking, professional network, relationships, social networking, social proof, volunteer, volunteering|

How Technology Can Augment Human Collaboration

Innovation requires collaboration, but collaboration is stuck in a rut. Data science can help us climb out. It can increase the scale, the intentionality, and the nuance of how we collaborate. With the right data and algorithms, we can set our teams up to do something innovative.

Ideascale2021-12-15T07:29:15-08:00September 26th, 2018|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Enabling Factors, In-Depth Article|Tags: analytics, case study, Collaboration, Communication, data, data science, diversity, in-depth article, innovation psychology, networking, productivity|

Strengthening Your Intra- and Inter-Department Partnership – The Welcome Side Effect of Design Thinking

Imagine a world where customer service, procurement, marketing, finance, operations, human resources, and sales can truly help each other and work together, instead of stepping on each others’ toes and pointing fingers. A world where all parts of the organizations work together with a shared sense of purpose, no matter how different their cultures, processes, and systems, have been in the past.

Ideascale2021-12-14T16:00:04-08:00May 23rd, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, cross-communication, customer engagement, customer service, design thinking, engagement, in-depth article, incentives, innovation, innovation metrics, innovation team, leadership, listening, metrics, partnership, rewards, Success|

The Five Types of People You Need to Facilitate Innovation

Having the right people on your start-up’s team – especially in its early days – can mean the difference between unparalleled success and embarrassing failure.

Ideascale2021-12-14T15:34:24-08:00March 16th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, expertise, finances, industry, innovation team, innovative people, knowledge sharing, marketing, startup, Teamwork|

Increasing Experimentation and Autonomy Capability: The New Corporate Innovation Imperative

In the past 12 months, there has been a concerted push to foster a more experimental and autonomous workforce within mature, corporate organizations. This is impacting how innovation professionals operate, drive value, and ultimately succeed in their own careers.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:41:59-08:00March 15th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: autonomy, Communication, design thinking, disruption, Employee Engagement, employee recognition, idea management, Ideation, Innovation Strategy, innovations kills, innovative companies, internal communication, leadership, lean startup, new economy, Product Development, results, rewards, training program, unicorn, valuation, value creation|

To Transform Your Business, Do This

When the Commission for Environmental Cooperation launched a challenge to the youth of North America, they received hundreds of unique, green business proposals. The young entrepreneurs competed for seed funding and came up with some truly disruptive ideas.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-14T15:31:28-08:00March 12th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: business development, business model, Business Model Innovation, cec, Collaboration, commission for environmental cooperation, culture, feedback, idea management, Ideation, metrics, new ideas, Open Innovation, Problem Solving, process improvement, product improvement, transformation, transparency, trends|

Improving Communication for a More United Workforce

Many companies around America struggle with communication between the management, the employees, and every level for that matter. Unfortunately, bad communication can lead to lower production and even conflict within the company, squandering sales and hurting reputation.

Ideascale2021-12-14T15:31:11-08:00March 10th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, company culture, employee engagment, goal setting, growth strategy, motivation|

Want to Build a Culture of Innovation? Then Seek Out Your Innovation Agents

‘No man is an island, entire of itself’ runs the saying and it should probably go on to say that no concept should be introduced in isolation either. In the VUCA world, we’re all challenged with constantly trying to do something new, to create lasting change, transformation and disruption. That challenge means it helps to have others on your side, adding their enthusiasm, energy, perspective and creativity to the mix. Why… because if there’s one truth about innovation, it’s that it’s definitely not a solo sport!

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:42:42-08:00November 20th, 2017|Categories: Leadership|Tags: change agent, Change Management, Communication, company culture, i-agent, in-depth article, Innovation agent, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, Innovation Leadership, innovation psychology, innovation skills, innovation team, innovative people, intrapreneurship, organisational culture, project management, talent, talent management, Teamwork|

What’s Keeping CInO’s Awake at Night: The Latest Corporate Innovation Trends From a Range Of Recent Conferences

Over the past couple of weeks, I have participated in several conferences / events, to better understand key trends in corporate innovation. Each event was excellent, but also very different in scope, audience and approach.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:42:07-08:00November 17th, 2017|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: back end of innovation, chief innovation officer, Competition, Creativity, data, disruption, disruptive innovation, Employee Engagement, idea execution, idea management, Ideation, innovation team, leadership, metrics, optimization, Problem Solving|

Do Open-Concept Offices Promote Innovation?

Do open-concept offices live up to their hype when it comes to encouraging innovation and collaboration? Or do they hinder productivity by sacrificing privacy - and in some cases, comfort? Let’s take a look at the pros and cons.

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:28:39-08:00October 12th, 2017|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Communication, Employee Engagement, open office, open-concept office, privacy, productivity, workspace|

Mastering Global Innovation through Multicultural Collaboration

We live in an increasingly multicultural and networked world where innovation has the potential to transform lives from Austria to Zimbabwe. Leaders and teams are facing changing customer needs across cultures and geographies. If you’re responsible for international products, services, projects, or programs, how are you facilitating innovation and collaboration around the world?

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:19:59-08:00September 19th, 2017|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: business development, business model, Collaboration, Communication, company culture, culturally diverse views, customer engagement, diversity, Employee Engagement, execution, globalization, idea management, Ideation, Innovation Culture, Innovation Strategy, innovation team, multicultural, Open Innovation, strategic planning, validation|

Here’s Why Consistency is Your Greatest Asset

Whether you’re an executive, a manager, or part of the team handling day-to-day operations, you’ve probably thought more than once about what you bring to the table within your organization. What do you feel is your greatest asset? Chances are, consistency never tops the list—but perhaps it should.

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:19:49-08:00September 18th, 2017|Categories: Strategies|Tags: actions, burnout, Communication, consistency, leadership, motivation, reliability, talent, trust, vision|

Are Legacy Approaches to Talent Inhibiting Your Innovation Efforts?

The legacy approach to talent selection involves matching education, length of experience and functional skills to the role. All of this makes sense as a baseline, and for well-established professions. But, we argue, selecting talent for innovation requires a whole new approach. Companies must recognize specific innovation skills that drive business outcomes. Yet today, most lack the tools to do so.

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:00:23-08:00August 8th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Psychology, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, connection, creation, creativitiy, disruption, disruptive innovation, drive, Employee Engagement, employee recognition, employee satisfaction, goal setting, hiring, HR, human resources, in-depth article, innovation metrics, innovation psychology, innovation skills, leadership, measuring innovation, return on innovation, ROI, talent, talent management, team building, Teamwork, thinking, value|

How to Get Your Innovative Idea off the Ground in the Current Economic Climate

Incredibly, business confidence in the UK is continuing to rise, despite the spectre of Brexit and its potential implications on citizens. Many experts have attribute this to the growth of the manufacturing sector, which recorded a Credit Manager's Index (CMI) score of 62.7 during the first quarter of 2017 and a 1.5% increase from the previous quarter. This hints at significant growth potential for product-oriented firms, which are currently able to increase exports due to a more competitively priced (and fundamentally weaker) pound.

Ideascale2021-12-14T08:06:33-08:00June 1st, 2017|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: brexit, Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Communication, economy, financial strategy, front end of innovation, fundraising, innovation process, Innovation Strategy, innovation success, partnership, Product Development, product pricing|

A New Emerging Practice: Innovation Communications

Closed innovation is a thing of the past. Scalable, open innovation as a business practice has yielded the most dramatic and successful results - and communication and connection with your audience is essential to success. By engaging through at least four of eight channels (website, email, social, public relations, partners, events, offline, and beyond), a robust communications process and schedule can yield valuable insights to help you innovate better.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-14T08:03:15-08:00May 22nd, 2017|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Communication, Crowdsourcing, department of labor, innovation, innovation communities, innovation skills, Open Innovation, process, social media, twitter, youthact|