sarah.vandenberg

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

3D Print Your COVID-19 Solution

I have a personal belief that, when bad things happen, the best reaction is to channel your energy into being one of the “helpers,” as Mr. Rogers put it. So, when the COVID-19 crescendo started to build in the United

The Wisdom of Crowds

It only took me six years as a crowdsourcing practitioner, but I finally got around to reading “The Wisdom of Crowds,” one of the flagship books in our industry. It provided for powerful reflection on what we’re doing right, and

Crowdsourced Innovation: Three Things I Learned

The three things I learned about crowdsourced innovation are: Innovation is required to be competitive, creating a concrete innovation system helps firms get ahead, and the hardest aspects of crowdsourced innovation are participation and accountability.

4 Ways To Invest In Your Employees’ Creativity

Is your organization centralized or decentralized when it comes to innovation? In a company where innovation is centralized, a specific department is tasked with innovating for the entire organization. The downside of using this model is that there is buy-in