knowledge sharing

How to Drive More Innovation In Your Workforce

Let’s face it, creativity separates humans from the rest of the animals. Our species has opposable thumbs and with that, it seems, the inborn drive and ability to alter our environment. No wonder the topic of innovation ability provokes such primal emotions. Yet — like speed, intelligence or artistic talent — innovation talent is NOT distributed evenly across humanity. Given this truth, what is the best approach to driving more innovation in your workforce?

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:59:32-08:00January 30th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Change Management, company culture, Creativity, development, growth, HR, in-depth article, Innovation Culture, innovation horizons, innovation skills, Innovation Strategy, innovation talent, innovation training, innovative people, intrapreneur, knowledge sharing, knowledge transfer, learning, personality types, talent, talent management, talent selection, team building, Teamwork, training, training program|

6 Benefits of Ongoing Employee Development

In many organizations, work is pretty consistent and predictable: go into the office, perform your tasks, and go home. Many people spend years doing their jobs without much advancement or ongoing career development.

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:41:31-08:00November 17th, 2017|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Competition, competitive edge, Employee Engagement, employee retention, employee satisfaction, employee training, hiring, HR, human resources, knowledge sharing, motivation, predictability, productivity, stagnation, strengths and weaknesses, talent management, team building, training program|

What Job-Hunting Teaches Us about the Value of Innovation

Anyone who has ever been on the hunt for a new corporate job knows that it can be one of the most difficult and frustrating processes in the world. The Internet has given us the tools to apply for thousands of different jobs every day, but it has also presented its own problems: application systems with no easy answers, automation, and stiff competition make the ease of online applications less attractive.

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:33:00-08:00October 23rd, 2017|Categories: Innovation Psychology|Tags: employee recruitment, hiring, HR, innovation skills, innovation value, job hunting, knowledge, knowledge sharing, recruitment|

Leaders Should Listen More and Talk Less

Want to improve your leadership skills? Well, you can start by talking less and listening more. While your oratory skills may impress some, your ability to listen will impress even more. Great leaders understand the importance of surrendering the floor. Unfortunately, most leaders choose to dominate the conversation with rhetoric and fail to engage in proper communication, which requires listening.

Ideascale2021-12-14T07:55:59-08:00April 25th, 2017|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Communication, Employee Engagement, idea management, Ideation, influence, insight, knowledge sharing, leadership, listening, recognition|

Transferring Innovation Skills to Newbies: Fact or Fiction?

Expert innovators know from experience how to innovate while minimizing hassle, needless tasks and wasted effort – they’ve been successful (and unsuccessful) countless times through trial and error. Using flight simulators and surgical learning tools as examples, it’s been proven that teaching veteran skills to ‘newbies’ isn’t science-fiction, especially in more ‘exact’ disciplines such as medicine and math. But is it possible to design a crash-course that teaches young and inexperienced innovators the less-definable skills, attitudes and insights necessary to ideate, champion and implement without having to go through all the awkwardness of being a rookie? We think so, and here’s why.

Ideascale2021-12-14T07:36:03-08:00March 7th, 2017|Categories: Leadership|Tags: Best Practices, expertise, HR, innovation skills, innovation training, knowledge sharing, learning, learning techniques, lessons learned, skills management, talent management, team building, training, training program|

Innovators: Are You Smart Enough For 2017?

We can all see that global commerce has evolved, innovative excellence has advanced and entrepreneurialism has accelerated. Just to make things more interesting, all of this change happened extremely rapidly. But how about our own intelligence? Are we really smart enough for 2017 and beyond? Ambition encourages us to reach for success, so let’s test our own entrepreneurial intelligence to see if we’re up to the challenges of 2017.

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:28:13-08:00January 20th, 2017|Categories: Column & Opinion|Tags: Change Management, core competencies, digital era, entrepreneurs, knowledge sharing, speed of innovation, Technology|

Why Top Executives Do Not Get Innovation – and What to Do About It

Many leaders of corporate innovation efforts struggle to get the support they need from executives higher up in the organization. Top executives can be skilled at talking the talk about innovation, especially in public venues, but frequently fail to walk the walk when it comes to making key choices that determine whether an innovation project will happen or die on the vine.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:04:15-08:00October 27th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Leadership|Tags: barriers to innovation, c-suite, CEO, challenge, Collaboration, Communication, control, corporate innovation, enterprise innovation, innovation blockers, Innovation Culture, Innovation Strategy, innovation success, innovation training, knowledge sharing, leadership, micromanagement, networking, risk avoidance, risk management, short-term success, top management, top-down|

Challenged by Innovation? Someone May Have Already Solved Your Problem

In 1946, Soviet inventor and science fiction writer Genrich Altshuller developed a methodology called TRIZ. It became known as "the theory of inventive problem-solving" and was based on a simple premise: across different disciplines and applications, the same challenges occur again and again. Unfortunately, people keep solving nearly identical problems from scratch. The main lesson from TRIZ is this: if you understand how your innovation challenge is similar to someone else’s, you can reapply solutions that already exist, instead of reinventing the wheel time and again.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:58:02-08:00July 12th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: case study, copycat, Creativity, fuzzy front end of innovation, idea management, Ideation, innovation, inspiration, knowledge sharing, knowledge transfer, Open Innovation, Problem Solving, technology transfer, trend, TRIZ|

9 Steps for Establishing Your Employee Engagement Plan

You've got the best employees on the planet, right? They work hard and are experts in their fields. But, somewhere there is a disconnect. The culture of your organization is not everything it could be, not everything you would like. Is there a way to ensure that your employees hold to the same values you do throughout your department, or the organization? How can you empower your employees, and foster trust, growth, and loyalty? Here are nine ways to fully engage your employees.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:54:01-08:00June 21st, 2016|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Employee Engagement, employee satisfaction, goal setting, HR, inspiration, knowledge sharing, motivation, talent management, Teamwork, transparency, vision|

13 Practices of the World’s Most Innovative Organizations

Successful organizations know the significance of innovation in business. Apple is a good example of how effective innovation management can improve your products and scale up your business. After reaching on the brink of collapse, it achieved new heights of success by implementing effective innovation management policy. The success of its innovative management strategies once again brought it in the league of leading organizations. If you are an entrepreneur who wants to learn from innovative management strategies of successful organizations, consider the following thirteen strategies.

Ideascale2021-11-16T13:25:48-08:00April 1st, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative innovation, company culture, Creativity, Ideation, Innovation Culture, innovation success, innovation training, innovative companies, knowledge sharing, leadership, measure innovation, measuring innovation, scaling, talent management, training program, vision, work environment|

Top 5 Tips for Outsourcing Your Learning and Development

Although a lot of companies would undoubtedly prefer to keep all of their operations in-house, this sometimes isn’t realistic. Whether you are suffering from budget or other resource restrictions, lack of personnel or a general lack of time to do a high-quality job, many other organisations are available to handle things on your behalf.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:24:16-08:00August 27th, 2015|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: automation, case study, development, HR, innovation training, knowledge sharing, KPI, learning program, operations, outsourcing, training program|

Untapping Hidden Value: A New Partnership Model for Corporate Knowledge Management and Innovation Functions

In the current business environment, defined by some as the ‘Knowledge Age’, leadership interest is increasingly focused on Innovation and Knowledge Management development efforts. To date, these functions often operate along parallel, yet discrete, paths. As organizations seek new areas of growth, while further cutting costs there is an increasing need to build more effective partnerships in order to ensure ongoing success and drive additional business value.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:46:03-08:00July 14th, 2015|Categories: Leadership, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: download, employee network, expertise, hidden needs, in-depth article, Innovation Management, innovation training, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, research, Teamwork, training program, unmet needs, whitepaper|

The Creative Destruction of Your Job

The rise of crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, crowdtransporting, crowdletting, etc., has transformed our economy. It has also ushered in the era of the shared economy. Previously marginalized people can now contribute, no matter how small, to all walks of life. It seems to be a fantastic opportunity for the world to access the untapped skill of the crowd. But what about the people whose jobs this makes redundant? Whither the expert?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:01-07:00July 9th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Strategies|Tags: Business Model Innovation, collaborative consumption, crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, disruptive innovation, expertise, higher education, knowledge sharing, redundancy, shared economy, sharing economy|

7 Ways For You To Be the Best Leader In Your Entrepreneurship

Founders of new companies have a lot on their plate. With efforts and energies spread in so many different directions, it can be easy to lose sight of a very important role – being a good leader for your team. In this article, entrepreneur Sameer Bhatia lists a few ways you can set a good example and set your company up for success.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:18-07:00March 25th, 2015|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: business development, entrepreneur, inspiration, knowledge sharing, skills, small business|

10 Commandments of Effective Crowdsourcing

For the companies which have embraced the crowdsourcing mindset in their business processes, the motive is more than just outsourcing. It's about better collaboration, better innovation outcomes and ultimately superior value. But like many other new business models, some fail and some succeed in accomplishing this mission.

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:47:53-08:00January 7th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, collective intelligence, Crowdsourcing, customer engagement, knowledge sharing, Open Innovation, Problem Solving, reward, strategy|