What is a Change Agent and How Can They Help Your Organization?
Highlights Change agents are individuals or groups who find and manage change across your organization. Change agents can be found inside your organization and among customers, vendors, and others you interact with. Change agents show flexible thinking, a broad knowledge [...]
How IdeaScale’s Project Planning Feature Can Help Your Business Transform Ideas Into Promising Concepts
Highlights Project planning helps ensure ideas become products. Before launch, there are a few key steps to take, such as recruiting champions and determining KPIs. IdeaScale's project planning tools are designed to streamline this process. Project planning is where innovation [...]
How Does the Smithsonian Manage Change in the 21st Century?
The Smithsonian Institute’s purpose to increase and spread knowledge gives it a broad mandate for change management and government innovation. Here’s how the Smithsonian deals with a changing climate, access to its enormous collection, funding, and the COVID-19 pandemic. A [...]
Here Are the Top Five Crowdsourcing Wins of the Past Year
2021 marked a year when major brands looked toward crowdsourcing to improve their products and reduce waste. Here are five stories worth drawing innovation strategy inspiration from. LEGO In 2021, LEGO saw enormous growth as a company and as a [...]
5 Key Skillsets of an Innovation Manager
The role of an innovation manager is defined by the skills needed to embrace disruption and manage change. Innovation managers may be referred to by a variety of titles such as: Chief Innovation Officer Head of Innovation Innovation Portfolio Manager [...]
Top Strategies to Prioritize Features for Innovation Teams
Innovation management is a tough job. Innovation team members have to deal with the needs of users, finances, and marketing all at once. And now they have to figure out which features should be prioritized for their innovation roadmap, too? [...]
The First Three Things You Learn About Crowdsourced Innovation Management
I joined IdeaScale in October of 2020, just before the “second wave” of COVID infections hit the US and an election unlike any other was about to take place. I was feeling stuck and eager to be a part of [...]
Why Project Teams Frequently Fail at Brainstorming
Introduction: How often have we heard executives and project managers say, “We need to come up with some new ideas”? or “We need to find some elegant solutions to this project problem”? The project manager then sends out e-mails to [...]
What I’ve Learned In My First Month at IdeaScale
I joined IdeaScale in March 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic had thrown the whole world into lockdown mode. Schools and daycares were closed down, office workers became strictly homebound, airports were empty, and hospitals were overcrowded while simultaneously becoming [...]
2020 IM Awards: PSA International
PSA International is a leading global port group with a network of over 50 coastal, rail, and inland terminals in 19 countries. PSA handled over 85 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) of shipping containers in 2019. Make it one of [...]
