Jessica Day

Fostering Innovation for a Distributed Workforce

Flexible working, telecommuting, working from home, distributed working. No matter what you call it at your company, it offers a host of advantages. Teams are more focused, better able to balance life's many demands, and generally happier. What impact does

Best Practices for Internal Crowdsourcing: Lessons Learned from NASA

Do you want to know the secrets to success through internal crowdsourcing and innovation storytelling? NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation — a crowdsourcing platform — unveiled their best practices for approaches to problem-solving in a recent webinar in

How to Identify Leaders among Your Staff

Innovation can’t thrive without leadership. Innovation leadership is emerging as a primary need of today’s businesses. It isn’t enough to have an outstanding leadership team today. You have to think ahead to the leaders your organization will have in the

Innovation Management: What Does Success Look Like?

While the term innovation isn’t exactly esoteric, it can be hard to pin down. What is innovative and what isn’t? The answer isn’t black and white. What qualifies as successful innovation management? Coming up with an idea that others like?

Crowdsourcing vs. Focus Groups: A Comparative Review

We live in the information age. Anyone can quickly and easily gather data. As they say, “Data is the new oil.” However, it can also be the new trash. Companies use crowdsourcing for product innovation and focus groups for market research to

The Cost of Not Innovating

Is there anything more painful than hearing “because we’ve always done it this way”? You can’t be innovative if you do things the same way every time. We get it: taking risks can be scary, but so can not taking

Is Social Media Part of Your Product Innovation Strategy?

The internet and social media, in particular, have connected us all in ways we didn't expect. That creates a truly powerful resource of creativity on which to draw for your innovation strategy. Of course, it can also lead to fiascos

Jessica Day
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