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Crowdsourcing Trends Shaping the Future of Innovation

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Essentially, it is the process of obtaining information or ideas from as many

How Change Management and Innovation Intersect

Innovation by definition means change. Not all change, however, is innovative. Change – whether innovative or not – is inevitable, and the people and companies that regard change as a leverageable asset are the ones that end up better off

Want Innovative Answers? Ask Effective Questions!

If somebody's car won't start, you don't ask them “Did you keep turning the key until it started?” Yet, when getting the motor running for innovation, we too often ask questions, not unlike that one. Relevant, powerful questions can take

How to Nurture Your Own Spirit of Innovation Daily

Innovation is ultimately about solving problems. While it’s possible to solve problems in both innovative and non-innovative ways, innovative problem-solving has the potential to make major changes to what people do, how they conduct business, and how they live life. Problem-solving is a skill

How to Run a Hackathon that Spurs Real Innovation

Hackathons originally emerged as a way to quickly advance software technologies and identify new areas for technology innovation. The term has since evolved to encompass other types of intensive collaboration events. Though hackathons often make use of software, they’re no

Understanding Open Innovation

Historically, research and development departments within organizations were solely responsible for coming up with innovative ideas. Things have changed with the digital revolution. However, the boundaries shielding organizations from outside ideas have become more permeable. The ultimate result is open

How to Measure Your Organization’s Innovation Maturity

Before you can assess your organization's innovation maturity, you have to ask and answer the question, “What does innovation mean to us?” Unless your organization has deliberately built a culture of innovation throughout, answers to that question will vary –

Does Your Idea Management Software Go the Distance?

It's easier to begin a project than to take it to fulfillment and easier to rest on your laurels than to keep pushing. We've all learned this, whether it's that new hobby or a newly launched business, and it also