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Strategies that Promote Workplace Diversity and Make Your Business More Innovative

At IdeaScale, we’ve learned that diversity combined with equity and inclusion leads to more innovative thinking: businesses that are run by culturally diverse teams are more likely to develop new products, 45% more likely to grow market share, and more likely to have a 2X innovation revenue.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-20T14:23:43-08:00February 9th, 2021|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: diversity, diversity & inclusion|

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 Vandenberg2021-12-20T12:22:51-08:00October 19th, 2020|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: diversity, equity, groupthink, inclusion|

The Future of Leadership Development Consulting is Here: a New Job is Emerging

The true basis of leadership is built upon a model generated by an X and Y axis. One side is the concept of leadership that creates change through a process-oriented approach, and the other as more of a relationship-oriented one.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-20T12:11:05-08:00August 7th, 2020|Categories: Leadership|Tags: idealized influence, individualized consideration, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, leadership development, transactional leadership, transformational leadership|

All Good Technology Managers Are Transformational Leaders

Compared to other leadership styles, transformational leaders are better equipped to deploy information technology tools, products, and services. Let's take a deeper look at why transformational leadership sets you up for success in the tech world - both with managing teams and with understanding IT principles - in this article.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-20T11:58:21-08:00June 11th, 2020|Categories: Leadership|Tags: core competencies, knowledge management, transformational leadership|

The Top Practices That Separate Great Leaders From The Rest

How do great leaders separate themselves from the rest? This article will examine how several excellent leaders, including Rich Teerlink and Steve Jobs, were able to inspire their teams, develop incredible products, and transform their companies.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-20T11:49:28-08:00April 30th, 2020|Categories: Leadership|Tags: Best Practices, Change Management, Communication, Competition, competitive advantage, employee decision making, expectations, inspiration, intellectual capital, Success|

Six Questions Every Leader Must Answer – If They Want to Lead Change

If you want to lead a transformation in the business, then you have to sell the idea over and over again to people throughout the organisation. In particular, the leader has to answer these questions which are present in people’s minds even if they are unspoken.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-20T11:22:42-08:00January 15th, 2020|Categories: Leadership|Tags: Best Practices, Change Management, leadership, questions|

Directorates Pay a High Price for Ignorance

Of the many risks that directors should be aware of, innovation is the most complex. A corporation that invests in innovation risks failure. A corporation that doesn't invest in innovation risks annihilation due to the many threats from small startups and mega-corporations alike, in a variety of areas.

Ideascale2021-12-20T11:19:49-08:00January 14th, 2020|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Competition, diversification, global innovation, innovation committee, innovation policy, R&D, research & development, shareholders|

15 Things Leaders Should Not Do – if They Want Innovation

We hear plenty of advice for leaders on what they should do to drive entrepreneurship and innovation in their organizations. It might be smarter to just stop making some of the common mistakes which inhibit innovation.

Ideascale2021-12-20T11:12:26-08:00December 2nd, 2019|Categories: Leadership|Tags: Best Practices, Innovation Leadership|

Spotless: An Innovation Roadmap

Bridie Scott is an Innovation Manager at Spotless and she’s taken the business on a journey from a large-scale company with big goals to a company that is listening to and empowering all of their frontline employees in the innovation process.

Ideascale2021-12-20T10:57:08-08:00November 13th, 2019|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Enabling Factors, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: case study, company culture, Employee Engagement, front end of innovation, idea management, Ideation, Innovation Management, innovation process, innovation skills, reinvention, revitalization, training|

How Idea Management can Help Advance Workplace Neurodiversity

Awareness of neurodiversity has certainly increased over the past few years and workplaces are gradually becoming more accommodating and accepting of neurodiverse employees. But after years of neglect and of neurodiverse candidates being overlooked for roles for which they are inherently suited, there is still a lot of progress that needs to be made.

Ideascale2021-12-20T10:51:35-08:00October 24th, 2019|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: accessibility, aspergers syndrome, autism, diversity, employee development, Employee Engagement, Employee Enrichment, neurodiversity, neurotypical, skills building, skills development, team building|

Five Takeaways from Our Innovation Conversation with Clorox

IdeaScale hosts a monthly podcast with innovation leaders, intrapreneurs, and other game changers out there. This past month our interviewee was Dr. Navin Kunde who currently leads the Open Innovation group at The Clorox Company, a US-based consumer goods company in the Fortune 500.

Ideascale2021-12-20T10:49:49-08:00October 21st, 2019|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: action, decision making, idea management, Ideation, innovation, inspiration, Interview, leadership, podcast, storytelling, value|

Psychology Tips to Get Honest Feedback from Your Employees

Learn four essential tips that employers and HR departments should consider when trying to get honest input from their employees.

Ideascale2021-12-20T10:49:13-08:00October 18th, 2019|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: company culture, Employee Engagement, employee feedback, feedback, innovation psychology, leadership, listening, Problem Solving|

Five Strengths of Innovation Leaders

Highly innovative leaders need to share a clear vision, practice effective communication, and make a commitment to roll imagination into reality.

Ideascale2021-12-20T10:44:13-08:00October 1st, 2019|Categories: Innovation Psychology, Leadership|Tags: asking questions, Creativity, flexibility, innovation competencies, innovation leader, Innovation Leadership, innovation success, innovative people, inquisitiveness, inspiration, intellectual curiosity, leadership, leadership competencies, learning, learning process, resourcefulness, Success, versatility|

What NASA Can Teach Us About the Intrinsic Value of Connecting to Other Innovators

Numerous organizations run crowdsourced innovation programs, because companies can find better new ideas and take action on those ideas faster. This process allows companies to set a challenge and gather ideas from hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of participants.

Ideascale2021-12-20T10:29:22-08:00September 9th, 2019|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Idea Management, Leadership, Organization & Culture, Training & Education, Trend Alert|Tags: Best Practices, government innovation, intrapreneurs, leadership, management, NASA, Open Innovation, project management, team building, webinar|