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How We Use IdeaScale to Build a Better IdeaScale

At IdeaScale, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere — and that belief doesn't just shape the product we build. It shapes how we build it. That's why our product roadmap ideation and selection process is public -

FORCE FIELDS AND INNOVATION

Introduction This paper relates selected multidirectional patterns of change—“force fields”—in the business environment to innovation strategy within the context of Zen philosophical principles.  Three force fields are selected for brief evaluation:  1) domestic vs. global markets, 2) economic growth vs.

Visualization for Innovation and Zen

A recent IdeaScale Blog article by Nick Jain—“Unlock Your Inner Genius: 10 Creative Problem-Solving Techniques You Need to Try Today” (March 24, 2024)—cites “Visualization” as one such method.  Jain states: Visualization: Visualization involves mentally imagining potential solutions to a problem.

Zen Philosophy for Stretching Innovation Space-Time

The non-duality principle of Zen philosophy suggests a more intensive approach to the dimensions of innovation “space-time.” Business teams should stop following a simple sequential procedure in which new ideas are accepted or rejected almost as soon as they arise.

Quantum Computing, Zen Philosophy and Space-Time

The up-and-coming field of quantum computing, currently in a prototype phase, will probably be an innovation with exponential and wide-ranging impacts in the power and speed of information technology. There are some interesting parallels between the behavior of quantum computing