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 Vandenberg2020-08-06T09:29:06-07:00August 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 Vandenberg2020-08-06T13:45:12-07:00July 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 Vandenberg2020-07-15T07:13:23-07:00July 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 Vandenberg2020-07-06T09:14:50-07:00July 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 Vandenberg2020-05-13T06:31:06-07:00May 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.

Ideascale2019-11-13T12:28:32-08:00November 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.

Ideascale2019-10-17T09:52:02-07:00October 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.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:29:15-07:00October 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 Vandenberg2019-10-15T15:29:25-07:00August 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 Vandenberg2019-10-15T15:29:39-07:00May 2nd, 2019|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: diversity|

Leading for Global Innovation Success

Global innovation projects demand particular leadership competencies in a multicultural and networked environment. Leaders need substantial cultural and market intelligence, facilitation, and orchestration skills in order to accelerate innovation and performance around the world. Yet current leadership models are not designed for this highly challenging environment where performance is critical to international market success.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:28:05-07:00March 7th, 2019|Categories: Leadership|Tags: diversity, execution, global innovation, Ideation, innovation success, innovative people, leadership, leadership development, measuring innovation, project management, strategic planning, Success, validation|

International Education: The Importance of Knowledge for Business

An international education is an invaluable resource for developing new skills and knowledge. A study conducted by the Institute of International Education (IIE) has uncovered a connection between overseas learning and the critical skills demanded by today's employers.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:28:23-07:00November 27th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, cultural awareness, diversity, ed-tech, education, global, International, international education, learning, Learning Management Systems, market, personal development, STEM, training|

What Contributes to Nonprofit Innovation

In an article by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the authors addressed a recent study from the Bridgespan Group that identified an innovation in the nonprofit sector. Although 80% of nonprofit leaders consider innovation an imperative, only 40% of those leaders consider their organization ready for innovation. SSIR went on to discuss the six characteristics that empower nonprofit innovation.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:28:27-07:00October 22nd, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: bridgespan review, culture, diversity, innovation, Innovation Culture, leadership, nonprofit, nonprofit innovation, nonprofits, Stanford social innovation review|

Priorities for Building an Innovation Culture

The 97^th Floor Mastermind Series recently interviewed IdeaScale about our company, our industry, our vision for the future and more, but we thought that one of their questions about what values we look out for when building a team are worth repeating here for those of you that are looking to build a culture of innovation at your company (whether it’s start-up sized like IdeaScale or not).

Ideascale2020-07-10T14:47:03-07:00October 8th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: continuous learning, culture, diversity, Failure, idea management, IdeaScale, originals|

How Technology Can Augment Human Collaboration

Innovation requires collaboration, but collaboration is stuck in a rut. Data science can help us climb out. It can increase the scale, the intentionality, and the nuance of how we collaborate. With the right data and algorithms, we can set our teams up to do something innovative.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:18:24-08:00September 26th, 2018|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Enabling Factors, In-Depth Article|Tags: analytics, case study, Collaboration, Communication, data, data science, diversity, in-depth article, innovation psychology, networking, productivity|