Military Invention Day
Two weeks ago, my wife and I looked at the weekend weather report - more rain. If you live in the Washington, D.C. area, then you've experienced record breaking rainfall recently. [...]
What the U.S. Coast Guard Can Teach Us About Innovation
The Coast Guard has changed the game with innovation. When we look for inspiration with innovation strategy, we rarely consider organizations outside the corporate world. But it's not just start-ups [...]
IM Award Lessons: How Innovation Maximizes Mission Performance
This year, the US Coast Guard won the annual Innovation Management Award for organization that could demonstrate the best and most repeatable innovation process. That process surfaced numerous valuable ideas [...]
Featured IM Award Winner: The US Coast Guard
We're not surprised that the US Coast Guard is one of our favorite stories from this year's Innovation Management Awards. Their presentation at Open Nation this year was regarded as [...]
3 Lessons Learned from Open Nation 2017
On a crisp early November day, innovators from around the world convened for Open Nation, IdeaScale’s annual conference celebrating innovation. They came to discuss how crowdsourcing ideas is changing their [...]