Changes to Drive More Value from Your Innovation / Ideation Platform
In our previous article we focused on some of the serious issues being faced by clients and vendors who are working with innovation / ideation platforms.
In our previous article we focused on some of the serious issues being faced by clients and vendors who are working with innovation / ideation platforms.
With the growing popularity of open innovation, crowdsourcing and web-based suggestion schemes where the best ideas are decided by popular votes, many of us tend to forget a very simply truism: creative people do not follow the crowd. At minimum, they do their own thing. At best, they lead the crowd.
The crowdsourcing of ideas was the radical new approach to innovation a few short years ago and technology platforms to support idea generation and ideas management have been growing in popularity. There are, however, question marks over what they actually contribute to innovation.