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A Simple Template for Choosing an Innovation Challenge

People who practice collaborative innovation envision a compelling future. They transform their communities, their organizations, and themselves by helping people realize their potential for leadership as they form and evolve ideas. Reality check: effective visionaries use pragmatic tactics to move from point A to B. In this article, innovation architect Doug Collins shares a simple template that practitioners can use to help sponsors of innovation challenges choose where to begin their journey.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:09:28-08:00November 27th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: Best Practices, collaborative innovation, decision making, diversity, efficiency, growth, how to, indecision, innovation challenge, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, prioritization, sponsor, template|

Pulp Innovation Chapter LIII: Executive Sponsor Selection

With the innovation initiative now under way at Accipiter, it's time to decide which senior executive will sponsor the project. Nerves run high, as the outcome will affect the entire team.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:10:23-07:00March 30th, 2012|Categories: Pulp Innovation, Serialized Book|Tags: pulp innovation book, serialized book, sponsor|

Recasting the Internal Communications Group’s Charter through Collaborative Innovation

Organizations fund internal communications groups to develop and disseminate the central narrative for the group. Changes wrought by the Digital Age have usurped this group’s role as the exclusive interpreter and messenger for intra-firm information, however. In this article, innovation architect Doug Collins advocates that internal communications reframe and refresh its charter by embracing the practice of collaborative innovation in order to facilitate engagement amongst staff.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:08:38-08:00February 7th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: campaign team, collaborative innovation, Communication, communications, company culture, internal communications, mergers & acquisitions, social media, sponsor, Stakeholders|

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|