Jessica Day

Will Innovation Win the War against COVID-19?

The coronavirus, known as Covid-19, has rapidly spread and is cause for concern for everyone all over the world. This novel virus is a reminder of what happens when a highly infectious disease suddenly emerges, changing all aspects of life.

Innovation, NASA-Style: 1% Inspiration, 99% Perspiration

NASA has driven technological innovation in ways that might surprise you. The space program has delivered innovation everywhere from food safety to materials science to medicine. NASA didn't get there by luck or sheer intellect. As Carissa Callini, Ryon Stewart,

Why Communication is the Key to Enterprise Innovation

According to Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen, 95% of all product innovations fail after their release on the market. This statistic points to a major discrepancy between the solutions that businesses are offering and the problems that customers want

Example COVID-19 Crowdsourcing Campaigns

We are living in unprecedented times. I'm sure many of you (much like the team at IdeaScale) are experiencing the impacts of COVID-19's rapid rise in personal and profound ways. So far, I've been heartened by how so many of

IdeaScale and Betterific: A Match Made in Innovation Heaven

Ideascale and Betterific announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter's strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale's industry-leading innovation management platform. So why are they better together? And what can innovation teams

5 Use Cases for Blockchain in Government

There's lots of hype surrounding blockchain, but at the root, it's a simple concept. Instead of one centralized authority having a ledger of transactions, everyone holds the ledger, and when a new transaction happens, everyone's ledger is updated. Transactions are

Five Innovators You’ve Never Heard Of

According to recent statistics, half of all inventions happen by accident, and two-thirds of patents arise from collaboration. There's plenty of innovation going on, but do you know who invented the products and services you use every day? All innovations begin with

Jessica Day
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