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 [...]
How United Way Served Community Needs During the COVID-19 Crisis
Stories and information about the coronavirus pandemic have been all over the news – on our social media feeds, newspapers, and TV. In order to see the problems in United Way's communities before they hit the news, United Way [...]
How The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Recognizes Emerging Innovators
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with protecting public health and safety related to nuclear energy. And when they decided that they wanted to diversify their approach to innovation, they decided [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Look Inside the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Virtual Innovation Lab
Tony Seba, author of Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation said “we are on the cusp of one of the fastest, deepest, most consequential disruptions of transportation in history.” The Virginia Department of Transportation is responding to this signal [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
