Jessica Day

How the Gig Economy Impacts Innovation

Today, more than one-third of workers in the United States are part of the gig economy, and that translates into 57 million people. For some, freelancing is a stopover between permanent jobs, but for 24 percent of workers in the U.S.,

New Podcast Series to Highlight Real-Life Innovation Stories

Podcasts themselves are examples of innovation, bringing together compressed audio, RSS feeds, and mobile listening devices into a medium that was born on the internet. So it’s no surprise that IdeaScale has tapped into this innovative medium for its new

A Look at the Idea Management Technology Landscape

There may have been a time – a decade or two ago – when businesses could look at innovation as optional. But everything has changed since then. Today the question is not whether to innovate, but how to do so as efficiently

Key Takeaways from April’s Open Innovation Summit

The Open Innovation Summit is all about expanding innovation beyond a small committee or a lab in the building to your entire organization. Just like any other scaling project, taking innovation company-wide can come with unexpected obstacles. Ideascale's Jessica Day attended

How to Solve Enterprise Problems with Multiple Innovation Types

Businesses tend to think of innovation in terms of products, processes, or business models. Within those three domains of innovation are several innovation types that apply in different situations. The innovation type that is best suited to the problem depends

Blockchain: A Real-World Example of the Power of Innovation

Some examples of the power of innovation change the world or create industries that never existed before. Blockchain is one of them. The first white paper about blockchain technology was released in 2008. The paper provided details of how blockchain could bring

Five Hurdles to Idea Management and How to Clear Them

Brainstorming is the beginning of idea management, but only the beginning. To keep the momentum going, idea management needs to clear away hurdles you may unintentionally put in the way. “Whose Job Is It?” Ideas need people to refine and

Motivate to Innovate: How?

Engagement is a challenge even in the most innovative companies. Bringing in stakeholders across the board will take more than just a welcome email and a few meetings. Here's how to gear your company for innovation, to motivate to innovate,

Jessica Day
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