Highlights The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) has allocated billions of dollars to federal, state, and municipal government innovation efforts. How those funds are spent will depend on federal and state directives, goals, and initiatives. Several municipalities and states are
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
