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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Infographic: Choose Your Own Innovation Adventure
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 [...]
Sustainability Campaign Ideas
You're committed to building a more sustainable business, but you're not sure what's most important. Should you focus on your carbon footprint or do you want ideas around protecting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Infographic: The History of the Suggestion Box
Companies didn't always look to their employees for good ideas. In fact, for many who first encountered the suggestion box, it was such a revolutionary idea that they were [...]
Innovation Planning: Framing the Big Picture
This workbook is the first in a series of workbooks on innovation planning. This series is designed to guide you through the steps for creating a crowdsourced innovation program [...]
Sunshine Coast Credit Union
With more than $700 million in assets, Sunshine Coast Credit Union (SCCU) is a full-service co-operative financial institution serving over 17,300 members through 3 locations and mobile services. In [...]
Infographic: Innovation Incentives
Financial incentives will encourage participation in an innovation challenge, but you don't have to start there. You can offer movie tickets, charity donations, gift cards, and a check when [...]
Infographic: Proven Innovation Workflows
According to Accenture, 72 percent of companies allow innovations to languish because there is no formalized process or organizational home for such initiatives, but sometimes it's hard to know [...]
Infographic: Find Your Next Innovation Challenge Sponsor
Many companies are introducing "Innovation as a Service" at their organization, which means an internal group acts as an internal consultancy that can solve problems for different business owners. [...]
Infographic: Meaningful Idea Criteria
One of the most common questions that we get at IdeaScale is "how do I choose the right idea?" This means "right" on a number of fronts: right for [...]
Infographic: 15 Types of Innovation
Nick Skillicorn is an innovation thought leader who recently documented 15 types of innovation that are at-work in organizations large and small. This covers everything from problem sensing to [...]
Infographic: Tracking Innovation Implementation Rate
With the rise of the innovation department, more and more companies are looking to define innovation metrics, but where do you start? This metric will tell you a lot [...]
Infographic: 15 Brainstorming Prompts
When teams get together to solve a problem, they often come up with more creative ideas than they would on their own - but how do you guard against [...]
Infographic: Innovation Campaign Ideas
We recommend that innovation programs run short-sprint ideation to keep up engagement and find new ways to continuously innovate over time. However, numerous innovation managers aren't sure what to [...]
Infographic: Idea Management Team Structure
When individuals are launching their first idea management programs, they often don't have a fully-fledged innovation department of resources. Innovation managers need to find other team members to help [...]
Infographic: The Innovation Technology Ecosystem
Every IT executive knows that their organization is inputting, extracting, and shuttling data between different software systems. Idea management connects systems where ideas might originate and germinate (like in [...]