How Design Thinking Promotes Innovation
It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. To the trained eye, this may ring a bell as [...]
The Innovator’s Mindset: Collaboration as Competitive Advantage
An innovator's mindset can be the key differentiator for a business to succeed. Innovation can make or break the success of a company. During the COVID-19 pandemic, business owners are [...]
The 8 Top Collaboration Tools for Your Workplace
Your company is a team. All the different departments are working for one goal: to sell and develop your product. But how is this possible if your team isn’t on [...]
What IdeaScale is Grateful For
Well, here in California it’s a predictably lovely fall day (brisk, but not cold with skittering leaves chasing each other down the sidewalk). It’s Thanksgiving in America and we think [...]
Research is Collaborative
Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is an open, networked community that brings together science, data and information technology practitioners. ESIP is supported by NASA, NOAA, USGS and 110+ member organizations [...]
9 Ways Bailey’s Irish Cream Can Help You Innovate
It’s a cold, wet Spring, so let’s take a moment (and a sip or two?) to reflect on how great ideas become reality. Specifically, let’s consider the invention of [...]
IM Award Lessons: Know Your Innovation Audience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyGWh6dP9Xo This year, Amway won the Innovation Management award for best innovation engagement strategy. They won this award, because of the global reach of their community and their tactics [...]
A Deeper Look at the Psychology of Innovation
Anyone can think innovatively! It's easy to assume that the great innovators of history are nothing more than geniuses who win the intellectual lottery. But really, innovation is about psychology, [...]
The 4 Dynamic Stages of Collaborative Innovation – Number 2: Idea Refinement
Nothing is built without collaboration. Ideas are simple to find. But, as we all know, good ideas are exceedingly rare. It's much like finding gold. It rarely comes whole out [...]
Innovation: Ancient, Ageless, and Diverse
Did you attend that start-up incubator networking event last week? Did you know that that start-up incubator mentality isn’t the new revolutionary concept many believe it to be? According to [...]