Jessica Day

Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. The process was designed to bring in and launch as many ideas as possible, built on the IdeaScale platform. This became particularly important when the

Overview: IdeaScale's platform serves as the foundation for employee engagement around innovation, allowing you to build on it in any way that works best for you. Actively soliciting ideas, surfacing new ones, discussing the process, making it easy to find

Overview: While the fundamentals of creating an innovative culture at a company remain the same when remote, such as encouraging ideas and using small teams to build up, the remote workplace offers new challenges for innovators. Look for ways to turn

Overview: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is still being felt in digital transformation. Yet already we've seen changes, including expanded rollouts of remote working system. More targeted deployment of IT resources, a more robust privacy and cybersecurity response, and

Encouraging creativity is one of the key challenges of innovation strategy. Yet, not every idea is going to be feasible. Constructive and effective idea feedback starts before you ask for an idea. It should be specific, goal-oriented, focused on the

For 2021, IdeaScale has three new winners of the Innovation Management Awards: TriHealth for engaging nearly 80% of their workforce; Grant Thornton for pioneering work in automation; and Graybar for an exemplary innovation process. Best Innovation Process: Graybar One of