Five Creative Ways to Use Customer and Employee Suggestion Boxes
Highlights Customer and employee suggestion boxes can be incorporated into any innovation campaign Modern boxes should be digital, privacy-friendly, easy to use, and designed to collect useful data. The suggestion [...]
Sagicor Podcast: Using Data to Improve Efficiency and User Experience in the Financial Sector
Sagicor is a full-service financial institution offering a wide range of products and services—everything from life and health insurances, to annuities, pensions, real estate, banking, and investment needs. The financial [...]
Why Successful Innovation is a Marathon and Not a Sprint
Highlights Despite seeming to appear out of nowhere, most great innovations are the culmination of years or even decades of work from multiple entities. Innovation strategy should be built around [...]
How the GSA’s 10X Program Advances Government Innovation
Highlights: The General Services Administration (GSA) founded the 10X program in 2017 to internally crowdsource ideas and new approaches. The GSA’s 10X program has been successful due to transparency, accepting [...]
Carbon Neutral Since 2020: Celebrating Earth Day and Our Commitment to Sustainability
IdeaScale is more than software. We believe innovation means working together to create positive change in the world. And while our tech does this, we also put these values into [...]
Vancouver Coastal Health Case Study: Generating Ideas to Create Sustainability in Healthcare
Creating a sustainable workplace has become a pressing concern for private and public entities alike. Reducing waste and carbon emissions demands new approaches, ideas, and strategies to develop momentum around [...]
How Better Access to Data is Improving Government Innovation
Highlights Government innovation is being increasingly centered around data access, such as big and open linked data (BOLD). The Federal Data Strategy (FDS) is helping government agencies break down silos [...]
How IdeaScale’s Innovation Scaling Feature Makes It Simple to Launch Crowdsourcing Campaigns and Solve Problems
Highlights Innovation strategy requires a plan for scaling innovation. Building scaling processes into your innovation platform, like those created by IdeaScale, makes it easier to move pilot projects and department-scale [...]
How NASA is Crowdsourcing the Search for Life on Mars
Highlights Crowdsourcing is part of NASA’s innovation strategy, drawing on private and public organizations. NASA has launched a crowdsourcing initiative to help process the spectrometry data coming from rovers to [...]
Winpak Case Study: Connecting Employees Across Multiple Continents and Languages
Highlights Global packaging company Winpak noticed that its innovation outreach efforts were limited to those who were able to participate at specific times and places. There were also geographic and [...]
Prototype and Test Concepts with IdeaScale’s Solution Creation & Development Features
Highlights Innovation strategy needs to have a strong component of team building, as well as a process for developing, launching, and reporting on idea prototypes and pilot projects. IdeaScale’s Solution [...]
How Innovation is Transforming the Way We Approach Disabilities
Highlights Innovation to help those with disabilities is needed to overcome policy, attitude, communication, and physical barriers. Many disabilities are invisible, with people laboring under them to live and work. [...]