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Strengthening Your Intra- and Inter-Department Partnership – The Welcome Side Effect of Design Thinking

Imagine a world where customer service, procurement, marketing, finance, operations, human resources, and sales can truly help each other and work together, instead of stepping on each others’ toes and pointing fingers. A world where all parts of the organizations work together with a shared sense of purpose, no matter how different their cultures, processes, and systems, have been in the past.

Ideascale2021-12-14T16:00:04-08:00May 23rd, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, cross-communication, customer engagement, customer service, design thinking, engagement, in-depth article, incentives, innovation, innovation metrics, innovation team, leadership, listening, metrics, partnership, rewards, Success|

The CFO: the Innovator’s Best Friend

The front end of innovation offers organizations engagement. Engaged people bring more of their gifts to the table. The back end of innovation offers organizations ideas that, when implemented, bring relative advantage. Each idea has its own story of relative advantage and risk. How do you tell the back end story in a valid, credible way? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins commends people who practice collaborative innovation to their organization’s chief financial officer. Having heard many, many tales of the back end, she can guide you. You can help her, too.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:13:35-07:00April 16th, 2013|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: back end of innovation, CFO, collaborative innovation, cross-communication, finance, financial strategy, front end of innovation, idea, leadership, risk management|

Trimming the Web Portal Kudzu

Organizations introduce web portals to help people share information and ideas. Time passes. Sites proliferate like kudzu strangling a pin oak. Their numbers keep people from finding the information they need and from engaging in the conversations that matter. Collaboration slows. What is the web gardener to do? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores how the practice of collaborative innovation can help organizations trim their proliferating portals.

Ideascale2021-12-05T08:21:41-08:00September 18th, 2012|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: Best Practices, Collaboration, collaborative innovation, cross-communication, governance, innovation platform, IT, knowledge transfer, online communities, web communities, web portals|

Why HR and Finance will Love Collaborative Innovation

It’s good to have friends in high places as you transform the world through the practice of collaborative innovation. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins introduces you to your buddies in human resources and finance. Say hello!

Ideascale2021-12-03T14:42:14-08:00August 7th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: collaborative innovation, Communication, cross-communication, finance, financial strategy, HR, innovation champion, knowledge transfer, leadership|

Enterprise Social Media Usage Pays Off In Innovation And Knowledge Sharing

This concludes the survey by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), the global community of information professionals, authored by Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Digital Business and the AIIM Task Force on Social Business and Innovation.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:05:46-08:00January 27th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: case study, Communication, cross-communication, enterprise 2.0, environment, innovation management software, innovation tool, knowledge sharing, marketing, Open Innovation, rewards-based innovation, social media, social technology, software|

How to Solve 7 Challenges in Employee Driven Innovation

The collective wisdom of your co-workers is a huge asset in the fuzzy front end. But which challenges do you need to address and solve in order to create a structured and effective employee driven innovation process? Read more about a method using idea markets as a powerful incentive. And it has already proven its worth in a number of large Scandinavian companies.

Ideascale2021-12-02T16:24:26-08:00October 20th, 2011|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, company culture, cross-communication, employee driven, employee driven innovation, Employee Engagement, employee motivation, front end of innovation, HR, idea campaign, idea evaluation, idea management, Ideation, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovation metrics, innovation success, measuring innovation, motivation, performance, Problem Solving, team management|

The Benefits of Partnering with US Universities in the Era of Open Innovation

Today's University is a rich resource for companies seeking game-changing technological breakthroughs. In this in-depth article Melba Kurman looks at the benefits of open innovation partnerships between companies and American university researchers.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:08:14-07:00October 3rd, 2011|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, In-Depth Article, Open Innovation|Tags: academic innovation, business partnership, collaborative innovation, cross-communication, ecosystem, how to, in-depth article, Innovation Management, IoT, Open Innovation, research lab, strategic partnership, universities, university partnership, USA|

How To Foster Greater Collaboration Between Innovators and the IT Department

Success in innovation requires greater collaboration with the corporate IT department, yet in many cases friction between the two leaves innovation managers with tools they don't want to use or IT managers with tools they can't support. How do you get this critical relationship right?

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:17:17-08:00May 19th, 2011|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, cross-communication, department oversight, development, governance, incremental innovation, Innovation Management, innovation toolkit, it department, leadership, Open Innovation, risk-taking, team building, Teamwork|

What We Can Learn From MIT – It’s All About Impact not Income

MIT has an incredible reputation, is an amazing brand, and is connected to numerous tech transfer successes. It is true that the system in the US is very different to that in Sweden: The laws are different, there is more money available in most parts of the US system, the domestic market is larger and the culture is very different. However, this is not say that Sweden cannot learn from the example of MIT, and apply whatever is feasible.

Ideascale2021-12-02T07:54:43-08:00February 4th, 2011|Categories: Column & Opinion|Tags: academic innovation, academic partnerships, business partnerships, Collaboration, cross-communication, europe, industry innovation, innovation research, knowledge transfer, MIT, Open Innovation, public sector innovation, Sweden, tech transfer|

From Science to Business – How Firms Create Value by Partnering with Universities

In today’s “knowledge-based” society, it is becoming increasingly imperative for companies to “mine” knowledge and technology generated by universities. Why? Because the outcome of such industry-university collaborations help companies create new activities and jobs.

Ideascale2021-12-01T15:40:03-08:00September 20th, 2010|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Life Cycle Processes, Open Innovation|Tags: academic innovation, academic partnerships, business partnerships, Collaboration, collaborative research, cross-communication, innovation life cycle processes, innovation research, intellectual property, IP & patent, knowledge transfer, licensing, Open Innovation, ownership, partnerships, patents, research, science, strategic partnership|

Tapping unfamiliar trade shows for new ideas

Trade shows outside your immediate industry can be an excellent source of ideas. Not only do you find new products but your attitude toward information gathering will be completely different. And that makes you more open to ideas you can adapt to your industry.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-06T10:44:45-07:00May 17th, 2009|Categories: Idea Management|Tags: Collaboration, cross-communication, Ideation, risk-taking, thinking different, trade show|