Innovation Best Practices

Overview: Wildfires are becoming increasingly expensive and dangerous across the Western United States. Firefighting agencies are responding with computer modeling, advanced topographic mapping, new fire management techniques, sensors, mobile monitors, infrastructure upgrades, and new government innovation programs. The Scale Of

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

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