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IM Award Lessons: Improving Customer Success Through Innovation

Grant Thornton International is a winner of the IdeaScale 2021 Innovation Management Award for Best Innovation. Every year, IdeaScale hosts the Innovation Management Awards to award organizations who have demonstrated a level of sophistication in their innovation strategy that has

How Design Thinking Promotes Innovation

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as a common goal of innovative thinking as well. In reality,

Help IdeaScale Identify the Future of Innovation

IdeaScale is gathering trends to inform their view of the future of innovation. To do that, they are asking futurists, innovation leaders, entrepreneurs, and other forwarding-thinking business leaders to answer at least one of three questions in their Future of

Crowdsourcing: Diversity and Inclusion in Innovation

On June 25, 2021, the president signed an Executive Order (EO) to advance diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in the Federal workforce. The EO “charges all agencies with assessing the current state of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility within their

How To Create A Concrete Roadmap for Innovative Ideas

"The hard part is implementation" - that's what I hear over and over from innovators. It is very easy to get lost and overwhelmed with decisions and nuances when you’re molding an idea into a functioning offering. A product roadmap

IdeaScale Climate Innovation Pledge

On Earth Day, IdeaScale launched its climate innovation pledge. To date, 12,862 ideas have been gathered. This number continues to rise. IdeaScale’s goal is to reach one million climate innovation ideas by 2025. Become a part of the IdeaScale climate

How Open Source Can Help Drive Government Innovation

Overview: Open source software, patents, and research provide the codebase, data, and information to anyone who wants to explore it. For governments, this allows better citizen engagement and support without committing substantial funds to upgrade or becoming locked into proprietary