In Search of the Perfect Brainstorm: An Update of Collaborative Ideation

Imaginary scenario: you have been invited to a meeting to [...]

Sarah Vandenberg2021-07-26T16:50:48-07:00July 26th, 2021|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Front End of Innovation, Idea Management, In-Depth Article|Tags: brainstorming, breakthrough ideas, co-creation, Collaboration, convergence, convergent thinking, creative problem solving, critical thinking, divergence, divergent thinking, diversity, emergence, idea generation, idea refinement, Ideation, incremental innovation, problem definition, Problem Solving, solitary work, Teamwork|

Is South Africa the Next Silicon Valley?

When you think of the most innovative places in the world, what do you picture? Silicon Valley and its array of tech startups? Tokyo, because it has the highest number of patents filed worldwide? London, where over 15% of the workforce is employed in the tech sector? Or are you imagining somewhere else?

Sarah Vandenberg2021-07-07T07:58:45-07:00July 7th, 2021|Categories: Podcast|Tags: Collaboration, Creativity, diversity, Ideation, innovation process, innovative places, KPI, Silicon Cape Initiative, South Africa|

The Key to Success In 2021: Building a Creative and Innovative Culture

In this article by Jeff DeGraff, he presents the four types of innovative cultures and four best practices for building a culture of innovation.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:36:58-07:00February 11th, 2021|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: breakthrough innovation, collaborate culture, Collaboration, company culture, compete culture, Competition, control culture, covid vaccine, covid-19, create culture, creativity cluster, diversity, efficiency, incremental innovation, Innovation Culture, manufacturing, vaccine|

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 Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:36:59-07:00February 9th, 2021|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: diversity, diversity & inclusion|

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 Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:14-07:00October 19th, 2020|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: diversity, equity, groupthink, inclusion|

Using Innovation to Improve Your McKinsey Organizational Health Index Score

2020 proved just how important our relationships to banks and credit unions are as they worked to rapidly respond to the changing financial needs of their customers.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:18-07:00August 17th, 2020|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture, Podcast, Support for SMEs|Tags: bank, bottom-up innovation, credit union, Crowdsourcing, customer experience, diversity, diversity and inclusion, Employee Engagement, employee innovation, inclusion, mckinsey organizational health index, Open Innovation, optimism, podcast, technology adoption|

Developing High Performance Leadership

Organizational knowledge cannot merely be described as the sum of individual knowledge, but as a systematic combination based on social interactions shared among organizational members.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:20-07:00July 29th, 2020|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: diversity, evaluation, expectations, knowledge integration, knowledge sharing, motivation, networking, organizational knowledge, vision|

Why Let Others Disrupt You? Take the Smart Self-Disruption Journey!

In a time when uncertainty reigns, the fear of being disrupted can brutally hurt any business. Responsible leaders who dare to anticipate disruption and take steps to self-inflict it to their organization in a smart and controlled way are best positioned for the future.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:21-07:00July 15th, 2020|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Innovation Psychology, Life Cycle Processes, Support for SMEs|Tags: agile method, breakthrough innovation, business environment, Business Model Innovation, Change Management, consistency, disruption, diversity, globalization, governance, intelligence, reflection, repositioning, reversibility, risk, risk assessment, risk management, scale, scope, self-disruption, self-disruption journey, speed, vision|

SME Innovation: 10 Priorities for Support Post-COVID-19

Post-pandemic, public bodies must restructure SME support systems for long-term growth with well-functioning innovation systems with the right balance of instruments.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:23-07:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Support for SMEs|Tags: ambition, co-creation, Collaboration, covid-19, diversity, economic growth, EU, funding, private sector, sme support, talent|

Let Culture Drive Online Innovation Teams

Online innovation teams need to be especially mindful of cultural sensitivities among members and adapt accordingly. Evidence suggests that cultural diversity is a major asset for innovation teams. Under remote operating environments, cultural awareness and sensitivity is of heightened significance, and appropriate practices need to be deployed.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:30-07:00May 13th, 2020|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: company culture, coronavirus, corporate innovation, covid-19, cultural diversity, diversity, eq, remote meetings, remote work, work from home|

Five Perspectives of Innovation Management Maturity

The success of innovation management is never an accident; it’s a holistic management process with an iterative thought-out planning and execution continuum.

Ideascale2021-03-24T19:35:32-07:00November 20th, 2019|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Enabling Factors, Idea Management, Leadership, Organization & Culture, Strategies, Support for SMEs|Tags: breakthrough innovation, Change Management, Collaboration, Competition, Creativity, delivery, diversity, idea management, Ideation, incremental innovation, Innovation Management, innovation process, innovation success, risk intelligence, risk management, speed|

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.

Ideascale2021-03-24T19:35:42-07:00October 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|

7 Modern Trends That Are Innovating Traditional Workplaces

The workplace of today little resembles the cubicles of yesteryear. More people telecommute and enjoy flextime options. Rather than a traditional top-down structure, many companies embrace a more democratic arrangement.

Ideascale2021-03-24T19:35:52-07:00October 3rd, 2019|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: artificial intelligence, bureaucracy, cloud, cloud based applications, company culture, diversity, Employee Engagement, livestream, open office, productivity, remote work, side hustle, startup, telecommuting, workplace culture|

Why Company Culture is Key to Innovation and Growth

In the world of business to get an edge over competitors, companies are required to constantly evolve their sales, marketing, hiring, and employee retention tactics to stay ahead. External pressures and threats from other companies push entrepreneurs to come up with new strategies and solutions to grow their businesses. There’s no way to succeed other than to innovate.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:36:17-07:00August 6th, 2019|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: company culture, diversity, workplace culture|

Diversity and Development go Hand in Hand

A diverse team is no longer a pipe dream - it’s a pipeline leading to increased innovation and development.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:33:12-07:00May 2nd, 2019|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: diversity|