Development

Focused on founding and building / developing a company or enterprise, or creating a new department within their company, or even starting a new project or program

Small Businesses can Overcome Financial Woes Through Innovation

Starting up a small business can be rough. Even if you possess near-infinite entrepreneurial spirit, chances are that you’ll run into some roadblocks along the way. Whether these obstacles are based in logistics of strategy and implementation of your business model, or even issues with the very products and services you offer, most of these problems can be solved with financial influx.

Ideascale2021-12-15T14:20:06-08:00November 1st, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: AI, automation, disruption, efficiency, Failure, finance, growth, innovation, IoT, lean startup, lessons learned, marketplace, mistakes, new technology, revenue, revenue stream, small business, smbs, streamlining, supply chain|

5 Things that Are Slowing Most SMBs Down

On your path towards success, your business will encounter numerous bumps, however, some of these problems tend to hold your business more than others. Most of the time, the entrepreneurs behind these SMBs are first-timers, which means that they lack the necessary experience to recognize the gravity of the situation in the given moment.

Ideascale2021-12-15T14:02:11-08:00October 16th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: diversify, Failure, goal setting, innovation success, online presence, short-term goals, small business, SMB, smbs|

Priorities for Building an Innovation Culture

The 97^th Floor Mastermind Series recently interviewed IdeaScale about our company, our industry, our vision for the future and more, but we thought that one of their questions about what values we look out for when building a team are worth repeating here for those of you that are looking to build a culture of innovation at your company (whether it’s start-up sized like IdeaScale or not).

Ideascale2021-12-15T13:58:12-08:00October 8th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: continuous learning, culture, diversity, Failure, idea management, IdeaScale, originals|

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|

Leading The Rat Race: The Hurdles Of Innovation

Locked with the President of my country, Cyril Ramaphosa, in what was already a ‘do-not-disturb, bromance-in-progress’ kind of moment, he must have developed an on-the-spot inkling that our intimacy stands to grow by leaps and bounds if he were to somehow ask me what I do for a living. And in not so many words, I said what I say to just about anyone – from Long-Rich Sales Reps – to Twitter Bios – right up to C-Suite level, thick-necked folk: “I chase rats for a living.”

Ideascale2021-12-15T07:26:40-08:00September 12th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Business, design, hurdles, innovation, market, moral, rat race|

Ready to Drive Global Innovation?

Everyone is mesmerized by the mystery and magic of innovation and new technologies through AI, Blockchain, IoT, AR/VR, Digital Ecosystems and more. Conversations center around the latest products and services as well as the future impact of a digital life. Yet there is one question that is surprisingly overlooked in many circles - how will leaders and teams innovate and collaborate in a changing business world?

Ideascale2021-12-15T07:21:33-08:00August 27th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: agile team, Collaboration, communicate, Communication, connection, customer needs, digitally connected environment, diversity, engage, global collaboration, global innovation, globalization, Innovation Strategy, listen, multicultural, multicultural innovation, networking, recognize, respond, Technology|

Small Business is Getting Bigger: How to Keep Innovating as Your Company Grows

Business innovation benefits business owners and consumers alike. It helps grow competitive advantage in saturated markets and time and time again have proven to be financially lucrative and socially inspiring. It's crucial to any organization's long-term success and especially hard to scale and maintain.

Ideascale2021-12-15T07:17:45-08:00August 16th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: build, Business, business development, Competition, competitive advantage, Design Sprint Framework, framework, goal, google, growth strategy, Ideation, innovation, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovative companies, KPI, launch, prototype, scale, scaling, small business, smbs, Stakeholders, test, testing, transparent, validate, validation|

It’s All About Interaction!

The central role of Interaction Design when creating delightful customer experiences

Organisations depend on their competitive advantage in order to become or keep successful, relevant for their customers and grow over time. As we all know, competitive advantage is achieved via either one – or a combination - of the strategies involving pricing, service and product quality or customer service excellence. We argue that another overarching strategy should always be present in a company’s strategy; delivering an excellent, desirable and memorable customer experience.

Ideascale2021-12-15T07:15:19-08:00August 1st, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: branding, Communication, competitive advantage, customer experience, customer insights, Customer Interaction Model, customer journey, customer retention, customer service, data analytics, design, design thinking, hard skills, information systems, Interaction, Interaction design, KPIs, machine learning, mart Algorithms, Natural Language Processing, process improvement, program improvement, soft skills, user experience, user insights, value proposition|

Why a Startup Team Needs Solid Management

Startups are moving the business at the moment, given the fact that many successful entrepreneurs are starting their new projects within this environment, especially if they're tech related.

Ideascale2021-12-15T07:14:06-08:00July 26th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: business development, company culture, leadership, management, meetings, project management, project planning, sales, startup, startup management, team building|

Musings of an Apprentice: Business Thinking Meets Design Thinking to Create a Design-led company

Abstract: A perspective of a redesigned, reformed and transformed business design professional. The author shares her journey, experience, progress, and point of view on today's often discussed "design thinking or building a design-led innovation culture."

Ideascale2021-12-14T15:48:52-08:00April 11th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: business development, Change Management, Communication, Creativity, critical thinking, design, design thinking, diversity, education, empathy, engineering, in-depth article, innovation, Innovation Strategy, inspiration, knowledge sharing, learning, management, mba, product management, relationships, storytelling, strategy|

Are You Looking Everywhere for Your Ideas?

Lots of industries care about intellectual property and proprietary information, but perhaps none more so than the automotive industry where product development is seen as the competitive edge.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-14T15:38:21-08:00March 24th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: chunking, idea management, IdeaScale, Ideation, inspiration, intellectual property, IP, iteration, magneti marelli, Open Innovation, process, proprietary information, prototyping, response time, testing|

7 Innovative Approaches to Educating Your Team

Innovation can’t happen without education and inspiration. Stagnation is the absence of creativity, and far too many teams aren’t using education as a way to keep the fresh and creative ideas flowing.

Ideascale2021-12-14T15:31:58-08:00March 14th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: case study, Communication, education, expertise, goal setting, knowledge sharing, knowledge transfer, learning, Teamwork, training, training program|

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|

Impact Assessment: The Innovation Paradigm Shift that is Coming

In the context of business management and economics, innovation has mainly been considered as a source of profit and growth. But innovation can also have a transformative role and recently more and more innovators and entrepreneurs are not only considering the financial returns of their projects, but also the societal impacts that they might bring with them.

Ideascale2021-12-14T14:01:25-08:00February 6th, 2018|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: accountability, business management, Change Management, decision making, economics, growth strategy, impact assessment, in-depth article, industry innovation, innovation impact, innovation policy, innovation value, investment, performance evaluation, policy, Problem Solving, public policy, social impact, social impact assessment, social innovation, Stakeholders, trends|

How to Choose the Right Technology for Your Startup

In today’s era of hyperconnectivity, technology is the backbone of every successful business, irrespective of its size. For your startup, the choice of right hardware and software pieces means not only managing your team properly, but also boosting their productivity, getting the most of every project, and saving a lot of time and money.

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:55:11-08:00January 11th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: business development, cybersecurity, finances, outsourcing, pain points, Problem Solving, security, software, startup|