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Put down the iPad: How to Set Rewards for Collaborative Innovation

Engaging in collaborative innovation by participating in activities such as ideation challenges can put community members at odds with the carrot-n-stick incentive and power structures that exist in every organization, including those that ostensibly support a culture of innovation. As the sponsor of your organization’s program for collaborative innovation, you can structure rewards in ways that give your community members the space and resources they need to pursue ideas to fruition. In this article, community architect Doug Collins helps you think through the process of defining a rewards structure for a basic ideation challenge that respects the innovators and collaborators who contribute.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:58:05-08:00July 26th, 2011|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: collaborative innovation, company culture, creative leadership, customer engagement, idea challenge, Ideation, ideation challenge, ideation lifecycle, Innovation Culture, innovation lifecycle, leadership, Open Innovation, recognition, reward, reward system, rewards, team building|

Four Points to Consider as the Business Sponsor of an Ideation Challenge

Your organization holds you accountable for the profit or loss of one of its brands, channels, or regions. Maybe you oversee the business as a whole. You have an opportunity to apply collaborative innovation as a means to engage a wide swath of colleagues on resolving a critical business question with you. Should you proceed? If you do proceed, what points should you keep in mind to ensure you make productive use of your time and the time of your community members? In this article, community architect Doug Collins covers the four critical points to consider as the potential business sponsor of an ideation challenge.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:51:59-08:00June 28th, 2011|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: Best Practices, business development, Collaboration, collaborative innovation, corporate sponsor, creative leadership, Crowdsourcing, Ideation, ideation challenge, innovation challenge, innovation challenge sponsorship, Innovation Management, innovation team, leadership, Open Innovation, sponsor, sponsoring, team roles, Teamwork|

Modeling the Resource Requirements for your Collaborative Innovation Program

The cost of doing innovation is a key factor in enterprise decision making but open innovation and collaborative innovation have a short history – so how do you go about modeling the cost of launching a collaborative or open innovation program? Doug Collins lays out the territory.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:17:04-08:00May 17th, 2011|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Life Cycle Processes, Open Innovation|Tags: challenge driven innovation, collaborative innovation, community, cost of development, Crowdsourcing, Ideation, ideation challenge, innovation challenge, innovation champion, innovation costs, Innovation Management, innovation success, measuring innovation, Open Innovation, resource management, resources, supply and demand|