Innovation Stories

The History of the Whiteboard and Ideation

Nobody living today will remember a time where there wasn’t a blackboard or a whiteboard at the front of the classroom. In the last two centuries, these tools have been central to the classroom and the innovation process, but there

Crowdsourcing vs. Open Innovation: What’s the Difference?

What’s the difference between crowdsourcing and open innovation? This is a more complex question than you might expect. Here's a deeper look at how these two concepts differ. Crowdsourcing Vs. Open Innovation The key difference between these two approaches is

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

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

Five Crowdsourced Ideas that Came From Unlikely Places

Overview: The value of crowdsourcing is that you can find ideas in the most unusual of places. These five, in particular, might surprise you and offer guidance for your crowdsourcing strategy. The Solar-Powered Wheelchair Alper Sirvan, a Turkish man with

Get Inspired With This List of Top Young Innovators

Innovation comes in all forms. If you're looking for inspiration as you develop your innovation management strategy, these five top young innovators offer solutions to common innovation struggles. Eimar Dolan The human body doesn't react well to foreign objects implanted