Overview: In any innovation program, ideas need to be examined through three lenses. How practical they are, the likelihood the idea will succeed, and whether the idea reaches your ultimate goals. There are multiple techniques for doing so, which can
Your innovation strategy needs to be aligned closely with your business strategy. The strategy should explain how innovation creates value for customers, how it captures that value, and what kind of innovations your company must pursue. Step 1: What’s Your
Overview: Innovators face a number of challenges, as detailed in our choose-your-own-adventure infographic, including leadership buy-in, resources, and team-building. Yet, these challenges can be overcome with the right tools and approach. Leadership The first step in building an innovation culture
Overview: A broad number of perspectives are crucial to high-quality innovation and the delivery of basic services. Acknowledging this, the Biden administration is looking for ideas in areas where the government has been lacking this perspective. Especially from underrepresented and
Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. The process was designed to bring in and launch as many ideas as possible, built on the IdeaScale platform. This became particularly important when the
Overview: IdeaScale's platform serves as the foundation for employee engagement around innovation, allowing you to build on it in any way that works best for you. Actively soliciting ideas, surfacing new ones, discussing the process, making it easy to find
Overview: While the fundamentals of creating an innovative culture at a company remain the same when remote, such as encouraging ideas and using small teams to build up, the remote workplace offers new challenges for innovators. Look for ways to turn
Although the pandemic results have been catastrophic in many ways, it’s important to remember that massive periods of transformation also pave the way for innovation. Around 90% of executives say they expect the pandemic to change the way they do
Overview: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is still being felt in digital transformation. Yet already we've seen changes, including expanded rollouts of remote working system. More targeted deployment of IT resources, a more robust privacy and cybersecurity response, and
Crowdsourcing and open innovation initiatives are vital by bringing vast stakeholders together to share ideas on complex problems and opportunities. Much of the focus is set on engaging the crowd yet deciding which ideas to take a risk on requires
