Leadership Archives - InnovationManagement

How to Create Innovation Confidence During the Great Resignation

Do your employees feel confident at work right now? Or are you worried that the Great Resignation may impact your company? Take these steps to make sure that your focus on innovation is the reason employees stay, and not the reason they leave.

Sarah Vandenberg2022-04-22T14:56:46-07:00March 26th, 2022|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: burnout, employee retention, hiring, innovation confidence, inspiration, resignation, sustainability|

How Does the Chief Information Officer Role Relate to Innovation?

Nearly 40% of IdeaScale’s customer base is run from a dedicated innovation department helmed by a Chief Innovation Officer, an innovation leader, an innovation manager or someone else. However, there is another emerging owner for innovation at a large organization. At IdeaScale, we often find that CIOs and their organization are driving innovation strategy for a company.

Sarah Vandenberg2022-01-31T16:07:35-08:00February 2nd, 2022|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership|Tags: chief information officer, Employee Engagement, Innovation Leadership, innovation manager, Innovation Strategy, it department|

Is Communication Sabotaging Your Ability to Innovate?

Avoid these four communications landmines as you navigate the stages of innovation.

Sarah Vandenberg2022-01-31T19:20:05-08:00February 1st, 2022|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Enabling Factors, Life Cycle Processes, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: Communication, follow-through, inclusivity, innovation purpose, leadership, managing expectations, outcomes, purpose, stages of innovation|

10 Tips for Dealing with Employee Recruitment and Retention

In September, McKinsey released a report describing the “Great Attrition,” a recent wave of cross-sector resignations we have witnessed throughout the world, primarily based on the exhaustion of employees due to the pandemic.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-11-15T14:15:20-08:00November 17th, 2021|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: automation, benefits, company culture, competitive advantage, decentralization, digital transformation, employee feedback, employee retention, great attrition, Open Innovation, personnel mapping, profit sharing, remote work, resignation, team building, work-life balance|

The Six Pillars of Innovation Culture

Every year, IdeaScale asks our customers what their main priorities are for the coming year, and without fail one of the top two priorities is to create a culture of innovation. Every innovation thought leader, every organizational engagement specialist, every pundit or leader in transformation says that this is the secret to avoiding disruption.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-09-28T16:38:53-07:00October 6th, 2021|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: benchmarks, Collaboration, collaborative innovation, diversity, empowerment, Failure, Innovation Culture, innovation metrics, innovation policy, innovation training, intrapreneurship, listening, measuring innovation, metrics, transformation, transformational innovation|

The US Coast Guard and Rapid Adaptation: “There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Textbook Hurricane’ or a ‘Standard Oil Spill'”

From recognizing innovators, to empowering your team at every level, to developing innovation outposts, the US Coast Guard are experts in innovation and idea management. Learn more in this podcast interview.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-08-31T12:07:09-07:00September 22nd, 2021|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Organization & Culture, Podcast|Tags: Best Practices, brainstorming, coast guard, employee recognition, empowerment, idea frenzy, idea management, Ideation, innovation council, united states coast guard, us coast guard|

How to Break the 5 Habits That Hurt Ideation

Many companies find it hard to prioritize ideation. Here are five ways to break the pattern and gather a wealth of ideas for your organization.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-08-24T18:17:04-07:00August 24th, 2021|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Idea Management|Tags: brainstorming, chaos, creative thinking, Employee Engagement, employee recognition, idea evaluation, idea generation, idea management, Ideation, incentives, motivation, proactive, structure, value creation, variety|

Four Traits Your Next CEO Must Have For Your Organization to Thrive

Want to ensure your organization will thrive over the long run? If so, then your next CEO must have these four traits – 1) relentless focus on the long-term future; 2) inherently entrepreneurial mindset; 3) solid grounding in reality and the fundamentals of business; and 4) behavior of a consummate diplomat.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-08-09T08:20:22-07:00August 10th, 2021|Categories: Leadership, Trend Alert|Tags: Agile, analytics, diplomacy, experimentation, honesty, leadership, long term planning, startup, strategy, transformation, trends, uncertainty, vision, volatility|

Create a Team of Master Problem Solvers

Problem-solving is an essential skill as an innovator. If problems stump your employees, how can your organization ever innovate for customers? Luckily, problem-solving skills can be learned, and as a leader you can create a team of master problem solvers and innovators.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-07-27T20:26:57-07:00July 29th, 2021|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: 5-whys method, problem definition, problem identification, Problem Solving, root cause analysis, skill development|

The Secrets to Making Open Innovation Projects Work

Open innovation often requires global teams with national culture differences to work together, which presents some challenges. Here’s how to navigate them.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-05-24T07:29:15-07:00May 19th, 2021|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation|Tags: agile innovation, Collaboration, Communication, competitive advantage, cross-cultural communication, cultural diversity, embeddedness, global innovation, Innovation Strategy, not-invented-here syndrome, open innovation strategy, R&D, risk assessment, risk tolerance, siloing|

The Three Horizons of Innovation Training

What if everyone in your organization came to work believing they could shape the destiny of your company? Learn more in this new post, and find out how it's possible with a 30-minute consult.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-20T14:28:59-08:00May 11th, 2021|Categories: Training & Education|Tags: Creativity, Innovation Culture, innovation services, innovation team, innovation training, opportunities|

What Are The Six Traits of Highly Innovative Organizations?

I love meeting innovators. You meet all types: some of them are blue sky thinkers, some of them are feasibility buffs, some of them are incredible networkers and presenters, and some of them are shy and fascinatingly deep thinkers.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-04-04T21:31:50-07:00April 20th, 2021|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Employee Engagement, Innovation Leadership, innovation process, kms, knowledge management|

Leadership Matters In More Ways Than One

No one is disputing the fact that leadership matters. In fact, there has never been a more critical time where leadership matters more than it does today.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-04-07T22:48:46-07:00April 19th, 2021|Categories: Leadership|

Strategic Agility: The Leadership Survival Skill of the Year

Chaos might have defined the year that was 2020, but that turmoil helped business leaders learn a new skill that will serve them well in the years to come.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-11-16T13:41:07-08:00April 9th, 2021|Categories: Leadership|Tags: Communication, competitive advantage, critical thinking, decisiveness, emotional intelligence, flexibility, goal setting, intuition, operational agility, resilience, strategic agility, stress|

Increase Your Innovation Reputation and Velocity with an Innovation Evangelist

Building upon my popular article Rise of the Evangelist, I wanted to create an article for the global innovation community focused specifically on the importance of the innovation evangelist role.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-31T09:24:09-07:00March 31st, 2021|Categories: Leadership, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: chief digital officer, chief evangelist, innovation evangelist, product evangelist, service evangelist, talent strategy|