Infographic: Innovation Year in Numbers 2021
Every year, IdeaScale reviews system data to look for trends that will shape the innovation landscape in the coming year. We summarize our findings in an infographic. Find out the average number of ideas per day, the best day [...]
Infographic: Innovation Easy Wins vs. Projects
When organizations are gathering ideas, there are generally two types of ideas: easy wins and projects. Both can have a high level of value for any organization but require totally different strategies. Here's how you can organize your thinking [...]
Infographic: Internal Vs. External Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing can be used to help solve a number of different problems. The crowd can perform tasks, share information, or help in large scale creative projects. And that's how the crowd serves the purpose of innovation. They share ideas [...]
Infographic: The Virtual Innovation Lab
A Virtual Innovation Lab is a digital space in which an entire online crowd can remotely collaborate to experiment with new ideas and test new solutions to create new value. Many organizations are beginning to launch these systems in order [...]
Infographic: The Case for Innovation Management
Innovation management is a combination of the processes and tools that combine innovation and change management. It allows leaders and workers to cooperate with a common understanding of goals and an equal share of engagement in improving an organization. [...]
Infographic: Five Crowdsourced Solutions from Surprising Places
No matter what your innovation goals are, there are a number of different ways to decide what's right for your organization. This "Choose Your Own Adventure" infographic gives an overview of some of the key choices that many innovators [...]
Infographic: Five Crowdsourced Solutions from Surprising Places
Crowdsourcing allows us to find new ideas in places we hadn't thought to look. Here are five examples of great ideas and the ideators that believed in them that are from across the government, private enterprise, and nonprofit world. [...]
Infographic: Surveys vs. Crowdsourcing
Most businesses do some form of market research and many of them use surveys. 90% of the Fortune 500 has engaged in crowdsourcing in one form or another. But sometimes these two methods are still confused, but there are [...]
Infographic: Crowdsourced Innovation Year in Numbers
2020 was an uncommon year and it resulted in some new exciting themes for innovation. This 2020 Year in Numbers showcases data from IdeaScale's innovation communities in order to provide insight, benchmarks and trends to innovators looking to start [...]
Infographic: Innovation Maturity Models
When companies want to understand where they are on their innovation journey, they will often seek out an innovation maturity model that provides a roadmap for how to gain more skills and capabilities as an organization. This infographic introduces [...]