2021 IM Awards: Graybar
In order to foster a culture of innovation at Graybar where ideas are openly shared, evaluated, and promoted throughout the company, Graybar introduced the “NEXT” Innovation Program. While there are several goals of NEXT, the ultimate goal is to [...]
The Rollercoaster of Improvement and Innovation in Healthcare
Northern Health is the key provider of public health care in Melbourne’s northern region, one of the fastest growing communities in Australia, with the busiest Emergency Department in the state. Historically not a well-funded or “sexy” health service, NH [...]
Winpak
Winpak is a global packaging corporation with twelve manufacturing facilities in North America. They manufacture and distribute high-quality packaging materials and innovative packaging machines, primarily used for the protection of perishable foods, beverages, pharmaceuticals, medical and personal care. Manuel [...]
Vancouver Coastal Health
Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) provides health-care services to 1.25 million people across British Columbia through a network of hospitals, primary care clinics, community health centres and long- term care homes. With more than 18,000 [...]
How NYU Plans for the Future with the Help of the Crowd
In 2020, universities and other education institutions are facing new and pressing challenges: remote learning, budgetary constraints, renewed attention on diversity and inclusion, and other important changes. Universities have to do more with less, be inclusive and innovative all [...]
Case Study Comics: NASA COVID-19 Edition
NASA is a United States government agency that is responsible for science and technology related to air and space, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, the prevailing, can-do NASA workforce expressed their drive [...]
2020 IM Awards: PSA
After making an evaluation of various idea generation platforms, PSA International adopted IdeaScale as their enterprise-wide innovation platform. The platform was named iCAN and it has become a resource for any business unit wishing to ideate on any particular [...]
2020 IM Awards: NASA
In their NASA@Work community, anyone with NASA credentials can run challenges, share problems, and post solutions. The Center for Collaborative Excellence and Innovation (CoECI) team makes all that possible. They coach challenge owners, right-size rewards and incentives, and encourage [...]
2020 IM Awards: The Cleveland Cavaliers
In 2016, the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse created a new team to help continuously improve the organization’s performance in a few key areas: team member experience, workplace collaboration, fan development, and civic leadership (among others). In order to gather ideas [...]
