Open Innovation Archives - Page 5 of 20

A Commitment to Diversity is a Commitment to Innovation

The more you allow disparate ideas to mingle and collide, the more you maximize your chances for true innovative thought to emerge. Learn all of this and more in a complimentary white paper about why innovators want to nurture workforce diversity.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-14T13:16:32-08:00September 11th, 2017|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Communication, culture, deadlines, diversity, Employee Engagement, employee retention, equality, goal setting, idea management, ideas, Ideation, innovation, innovation team, retention, team building, Teamwork|

Hold Innovation & Mobilize National Entrepreneurialism

We are over flooded with massive innovation lacking commercialization; we have qualifications, certifications and degrees but seriously lacking directions; we have incubators and accelerators exhausted like real estate projects…we have make-believe economical development games but the real progress is not there. So what else we need?

Ideascale2021-12-14T12:54:16-08:00July 18th, 2017|Categories: Column & Opinion, Innovation Psychology|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative innovation, economy, entrepreneurship, future of innovation, Innovation Culture, innovation policy, innovation psychology, innovation standards, innovation success, innovative companies, innovative countries, Open Innovation, survival, workplace|

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|

Implementation is Your New Competitive Advantage

When it comes to implementation there are three things that companies ought to be thinking about in order to maintain a competitive advantage: process, feedback, and the importance of having multiple stakeholders from the beginning. Learn more in this Open Innovation Guide from IdeaScale.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-14T07:53:15-08:00April 17th, 2017|Categories: Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: Competition, competitive advantage, feedback, idea management, IdeaScale, Ideation, Open Innovation, process, process improvement, Stakeholders|

Organizational Revolutions through Idea Hacking

Businesses face the dilemma dividing resources between protecting the current value chain and developing new value propositions that in time replace the old ones. Not every organization has the luxury to have its own dedicated innovation unit and still then the ideas might not always be too innovative. Hackathons are an affordable and energizing way to generate innovative ideas that can revolutionize your organization.

Ideascale2021-12-14T07:52:48-08:00April 13th, 2017|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: bias, business development, Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Communication, Creativity, decision making, Employee Engagement, evaluation of ideas, hackathon, idea hacking, Ideation, in-depth article, innovative companies, strategy|

Citizen Science and Market Research: How the Public Can Help Prioritize

Regardless of whether the workplace is a public or private entity, departments often struggle to prioritize assigned projects, and align individual projects with overall objectives. In this case study, we’ll explore how the National Cancer Institute implemented crowdsourcing to enable the research community and the public to submit ideas on how best to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer - and how as a result, they were able to prioritize existing research and initiatives into areas where additional resources were needed the most.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-14T07:46:45-08:00April 3rd, 2017|Categories: Strategies|Tags: cancer, case study, citizen science, citizien science, Crowdsourcing, innovation, market research, national cancer institute, nci, prioritization, project management, research, vision|

The Catalyst Network: Expanding the Reach and Impact of your Innovation Team

To amplify your company's presence and scale your influence, innovation teams need to harness informal networks and not simply rely on formal structures to create a thriving innovation eco-system. Enter Innovation Catalysts: natural champions who are believers, idea generators, problem solvers, mentors and sponsors in your organization.

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:36:54-08:00February 16th, 2017|Categories: Idea Management, Leadership|Tags: change agent, Employee Engagement, employee network, influence, innovation catalyst, innovation champion, innovation network, innovation networks, innovation team, Open Innovation, Problem Solving, scaling, team building, thought-leader|

10 Skills You Need to Nurture in Your Innovation Group

Organizational innovation requires discipline. And like any other discipline, it requires monitoring and training to make sure that you’re on the cutting edge of your capabilities. But what skills should you focus on building and how can you track your progress?

Rob Hoehn2021-12-14T06:36:20-08:00February 13th, 2017|Categories: Leadership, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: accountability, Collaboration, Employee Engagement, goals, implementation, Innovation Culture, innovation fitness, innovation skills, innovation team, leadership, Open Innovation, reporting, skills management, trend|

Collaborative Innovation – Hamburger Style

Often I read articles or books about top-down vs. bottom-up innovation and why one approach would be better than the other. After spending more than five years in the collaborative innovation space, I would advise going hamburger style!

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:34:14-08:00February 7th, 2017|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Idea Management, Open Innovation|Tags: bottom-up, bottom-up innovation, campaign team, collaborative innovation, Communication, Creativity, crowdvoting, executive sponsor, Ideation, ideation contests, innovation champions, Innovation Strategy, question, suggestion box, synergy, top-down, top-down innovation, workshop|

Organizing within Networks of Collaborators

Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. To meet different challenges, to be highly adaptive it needs to begin to organize around ecosystems to deliver on a vision that recognizes it has to be part of a greater collaborating network to thrive in this highly connected world.

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:30:21-08:00January 27th, 2017|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: adaptation, Collaboration, collaborative consumption, collaborative innovation, ecosystem, global market, networks, organizational structure, sharing economy, strategic partnership, transformation, value proposition, value stream|

What Do Innovators Look Like?

Crowdsourced innovation is a tactic used more and more often by government organizations as well as enterprise corporations. This means that innovation teams need to add a new skill set to their resumé: communications.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-14T06:29:23-08:00January 23rd, 2017|Categories: Enabling Factors, Open Innovation|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, consumer demographics, Crowdsourcing, demographics, diversity, gender, IdeaScale, innovation champion, innovation skills, innovation team, marketing, personality types, research, skills, target audience, team building, team diversity, Technology, USA|

Picking the Right Stakeholders for Open Innovation

What external stakeholder groups can you tap into to build value for your innovation initiatives? Are your relationships with these external stakeholder groups solid or do you need to do additional work to build good, mutually beneficial working relationships? Are there potential stakeholder groups that you have not yet tapped at all? If so, what is your plan for reaching out to organizations within these pools so that you can further expand your innovation ecosystem? Are your channels for communicating with your external stakeholders strong or do they need further work?

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:27:35-08:00January 19th, 2017|Categories: Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, Competition, ecosystem, enterprise innovation, external collaboration, innovation partnership, MNC, Open Innovation, partnership, relationships, SME, stakeholder management, Stakeholders, strategic partnership|

3 Advantages to Collaborating on Innovation as a Global Community

The list of problems that need to be solved is growing almost as fast as our solutions are. Some are concerned about the lack of food and water security, others worry about access to education and a whopping 45.2% of millennials think today’s most pressing problem is the destruction of natural resources. But with the proliferation of problems, organizations and enterprises are broadening their search for innovative solutions and many of them are looking to the crowd for ideas.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-14T06:25:52-08:00January 16th, 2017|Categories: Enabling Factors, News|Tags: business value, Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Crowdsourcing, design, DREAMS Challenge, global market, globalization, HIV / AIDS, HR, IdeaScale, millennial, nonprofit, Open Innovation, Problem Solving, R&D, rapid design processes, rapid innovation cycle, social innovation, talent management, team building|

A Quick Guide to External Collaboration

Working with external partners to bring better products and services to market faster and/or develop better intellectual property has never been more popular in the world of business than what we see today.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:16:52-08:00January 6th, 2017|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Communication, definitions, ecosystem, executive sponsor, HR, mindset, Stakeholders, strategic partnership, supplier enabled innovation|