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Why Your Company Should Have a Data Driven Culture

The Information Age has made way for several innovations across the business world. While the business industry—much like the American educational system—has been slow to the uptake of implementing technological advancements into their marketing and planning strategies, the 2020s herald a new age for the use of data and technological advancement in companies big and small. 2019 is a fantastic transition year for learning how to use big data in a big way.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:50:12-08:00February 15th, 2019|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: analytics, big data, Collaboration, data, decision making, Product Development, skills, Technology|

A Step-by-Step Guide to Successful High-Level Talent Acquisition

In today’s competitive job market, acquiring the best talent can involve a long and drawn-out process often resulting in the employer settling for someone who may not be the best fit, or not finding the right candidate at all.

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:50:24-08:00December 6th, 2017|Categories: Strategies|Tags: background checks, Employee Engagement, employee retention, employee training, hiring, HR, human resources, job offer, knowledge, recruitment, rejection, skills, talent management|

How to Know Who Has the Right Skills for the Job

Hiring is a deeply imperfect process that probably has as many misses as hits. You’ve probably seen it in action: a new hire looks perfect on the paper and interviews well but has mediocre performance or clashes with co-workers constantly. Finding the person with the right skills is hard, but there are ways to pick more of the right candidates for a job.

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:38:31-08:00November 15th, 2017|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: hiring, HR, human resources, innovation skills, job description, learning, learning skills, networking, skills, social skills, talent management, team building, training|

Lean Start-Up and Digital Skills: Are They Enough?

If you’re like a lot of people, your company is trying to drive innovation internally, with a workforce that wasn't really hired for that. It's a tough nut to crack, and the very reason we started Swarm Vision.

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:29:07-08:00October 16th, 2017|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: adaptability, Change Management, digital, digital skills, disruption, hiring, innovation, innovation skills, innovation team, innovation training, internal innovation, lean, lean startup, process improvements, skills, start-up, startup, talent, tech skills, Technology|

Struggling with Company Culture? Here are 3 Ways to Improve Your Work Environment

Company culture is an extremely important component of a healthy business. Culture serves as the personality of the organization and has a huge impact on the company's reputation with both internal employees and externally with customers and clients. In addition, workplace culture can influence an employee's productivity and results. Companies who focus on building a positive culture will reap the benefits of a motivated and high-achieving workforce as employees will feel much more contented and connected at work.

Ideascale2021-12-14T07:58:46-08:00May 4th, 2017|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: alignment, Communication, company culture, Employee Engagement, employee recognition, employee satisfaction, gratitude, leadership, personal development, professional development, recognition, skills, strategy, team building, team growth, vision, workplace|

What Do Innovators Look Like?

Crowdsourced innovation is a tactic used more and more often by government organizations as well as enterprise corporations. This means that innovation teams need to add a new skill set to their resumé: communications.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-14T06:29:23-08:00January 23rd, 2017|Categories: Enabling Factors, Open Innovation|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, consumer demographics, Crowdsourcing, demographics, diversity, gender, IdeaScale, innovation champion, innovation skills, innovation team, marketing, personality types, research, skills, target audience, team building, team diversity, Technology, USA|

Urgently Wanted: The Design Driven Manager

The potential of Design Thinking becomes more and more visible because organizations like Apple, Coca-Cola, IBM, Nike en Proctor & Gamble not only show overtly that they use it, but start showing significant results. They outperformed their peers in the last decade with 219%, measured by the Design Value Index (assessment by Design Management Institute).

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:54:10-08:00June 30th, 2016|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: co-creation, Collaboration, creative problem solving, Creativity, design thinking, education, empathy, innovation, innovation skills, learning, management, Problem Solving, skills, skills management, soft skills|

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|

3 Ways To Scale Up Your Business In 2015

In 2014, you did all the right things and your business began to take off like a Harrier Jump Jet. However, now that you’ve been cruising at a high altitude for awhile, you can either choose to stay on course or go to a new level of elite performance.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:25-07:00January 27th, 2015|Categories: Strategies|Tags: business development, crisis, Employee Engagement, gamification, innovation training, market research, sacling, scaling up, skills, talent management, Technology, training|

Intrapreneurs, Catalysts, Champions, etc: The Changing Needs Within Innovation Development

In part three of this series Anthony Ferrier considers why organizations are seeking ways to identify, engage and drive their employees towards innovative activities, with titles such as Intrapreneaurs, Innovation Catalysts, Innovation Champions, etc.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:49:06-08:00December 18th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: Communication, company culture, Employee Engagement, employee support, entrepreneur, idea development, incentive, incentives, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, intrapreneur, knowledge, motivation, partnership, skills, talent management, training|

Activities To Support Your Employee Intrapreneurs

In part two of this series looking at ways organizations can support intrapreneaurs, Anthony Ferrier suggests a list of strategies and approaches to improve the effectiveness of intrapreneurs in your organisation.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:49:14-08:00December 8th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: Communication, company culture, Employee Engagement, employee support, entrepreneur, idea development, incentive, incentives, Innovation Culture, intrapreneur, knowledge, motivation, skills, talent management, training|

Innovators Talk Strategy for Driving Growth

As innovation leaders in industry gather to discuss the front and back end of innovation in a global context, a common theme emerges. Whether expanding to a neighboring country or across oceans, entering a foreign market is always a “beyond-the-core” activity requiring the development of new competencies. One solution: identify skills first, not people.

Ideascale2021-12-05T08:33:35-08:00October 17th, 2012|Categories: Enabling Factors, Strategies|Tags: china, competencies, front end of innovation, global innovation strategy, global market, growth strategy, innovation execution, innovation lifecycle, R&D, reverse innovation, skills, stereotypes, sustainable growth|

Innovation Lessons Learned from Students

Here are some lessons I've learned about innovation from working with high school and college students. If their passion and enthusiasm is any indication, we have a bright future ahead!

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:09:10-08:00February 15th, 2012|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: business concept, business opportunities, collegiate, Competition, compliance, effective communicator, entrepreneurial, innovation, inspiration, lessons learned, mentoring, passion, peer behavior, skills, tangible rewards|

New paradigm of work requires a more whole-brained approach, says Michael Gelb

Accelerating change and complexity has resulted in ever greater demands on the individual's time and energy. To succeed today requires a balance of creative and pragmatic skills, explains creativity expert and author Michael Gelb.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-04T17:33:00-07:00April 13th, 2010|Categories: Interview|Tags: Agile, connect, connections, conscious capitalism, creative, creative leadership, creative thinking, curiosity, diverse, dynamic, imagination, inspiration, integration, Interview, intuition, key words, knowledge, logic, mind mapping, mind set, open source, paradigm of work, passion, pragmatic, purpose, skills, stakeholder, team oriented, visualization, whole-brain approach, win-win|

How to use creative problem solving to get a job – even during an economic downturn

The late Earl Nightingale, known as "the dean of personal development," once related this story in one of his audiotapes that speaks to the challenges we face today, and why creative problem solving is more important than ever.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-08T11:31:24-07:00November 18th, 2008|Categories: Innovation Psychology, Interview|Tags: adversity, creative problem solving, Creativity, job hunting, opportunity, personal development, Problem Solving, professional development, skills, strengths and weaknesses|