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Let Customers Help You Innovate During COVID

In this article, we'll look at three ways to engage customers and create products they want to buy right now.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-20T12:09:35-08:00July 28th, 2020|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: brand evangelist, Collaboration, confidentiality, connection, coronavirus, covid-19, customer engagement, invention, product definition, Product Development, product validation, trust, value proposition|

The Future of Innovation: Learning to Lead with Heart

Design Thinking (DT), (also known as human-centered design) is an innovation process used to evolve products and services in business and social impact sectors. World-renowned companies like Apple, Google and GE use DT for business solutions, and top-tier colleges like Stanford, Harvard and MIT teach DT to students looking to solve the world’s biggest problems.

Ideascale2021-12-17T13:07:12-08:00April 4th, 2019|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: connection, design model, design process, design thinking, disconnect, innovation lab, Product Development, Teamwork, Technology|

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|

Do Educational Institutions Need a Chief Innovation Officer?

IdeaScale’s second largest customer segment is in the field of education (our largest segment is our work in government innovation) and it’s been growing steadily over the past four years. One of the reasons that we think there’s a renewed focus on innovation in education, is because numerous emerging trends impact education at every level: from remote learning to the maker movement and the gig economy.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-14T15:56:10-08:00May 7th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: academic innovation, barriers, chief innovation officer, Collaboration, connection, culture, education, entangled solutions, idea management, Ideation, infographic, Innovation Culture, networking, universities|

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 creativity is revolutionizing the book business: Corey Michael Blake

Corey Michael Blake is president of Round Table Companies, a firm that works closely with authors to develop graphic novels. In this interview with Michelle James, he explains how the book business is being transformed today, and the central role of creativity in all parts of the revolution.