3 Reasons Healthcare Needs Idea Management
It’s hard enough to keep up in a complex industry like healthcare. But just wait till healthcare is disrupted as dramatically as retail or music has been over the past [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Expert Interview Series: Jennifer Riggins of Happy Melly On Growing Your Brand Using Collaboration And Innovation
Jennifer Riggins is the marketeer at Happy Melly, a virtual global business network dedicated to making happiness at work the new norm. Henry Ford once said, "If everyone is moving [...]
A Distributed Workforce Collaborates
Social media platforms. Email. Video messaging. These days, long distance communication is easier than ever before. This ease of crossing the void has allowed folks with a common aim and [...]
Why Process Efficiency Is Integral to Business
Sometimes in the business world, it’s all about the money. Other times in the business world, it’s all about the efficiency. In fact, those two things are related. Because as [...]
Why is Transparency Important to Ideation
When thinking about ideation, one of the most important factors to consider is transparency. Although at first glance it may not seem to be so, transparency or the lack thereof [...]
Asking for Problems, Asking for Solutions
“What should our first campaign be?” Funnily enough, that question itself is a fantastic starting campaign. When an organization first begins crowdsourcing solutions to their problems, opening with a call [...]
It’s Raining Features! A Tour of IdeaScale’s Latest Functionality
For those of you that want to ensure success for 2014’s innovation programs, IdeaScale is offering a complimentary webinar review of all IdeaScale new features on Wednesday, March 19th at 10am PDT. [...]
Innovation Spotlight: State of Minnesota
In case you hadn't heard, IdeaScale recently announced the winners of its open innovation awards contest. Our panel of judges selected five winners from an array of submissions that outlined [...]