10 Top Innovation Podcasts to Inspire You Today
When you’re an innovator, you’re constantly looking for inspiration. A big part of being an innovator is being a researcher—someone with continual learning on their mind. A great place for [...]
Remote Work Has Become One of the Business World’s Most Innovative Tools
Remote work is here to stay. And despite two years of practice, many companies worry about what working remotely means for creativity, innovation, and culture—so to put those fears to [...]
The Biggest Barricades of Innovation and How to Overcome Them
Highlights Institutional inertia, a narrow perception of innovation or what it needs to flourish, and short-term thinking can all be barricades of innovation. Break through these barriers by uncovering the [...]
Seven Companies That Failed to Innovate and What Happened to Them
Highlights Companies as diverse as Xerox, National Geographic, and Circuit City failed to innovate, and suffered painful costs as a result. While a company can survive failing to innovate, it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]