Characteristics of Successful Innovators Many people assume that if they don’t invent things and hold multiple patents, they aren’t very innovative. In reality, many inventors don’t have patents or products. [...]
There may have been a time – a decade or two ago – when businesses could look at innovation as optional, but everything has changed since then. Today the question is [...]
Brainstorming is the beginning of idea management, but only the beginning. To keep the momentum going, idea management needs to clear away hurdles you may unintentionally put in the way.“Whose [...]
How is your idea management software performing? How do you measure the intangible? This is a particular struggle for innovation departments and committees launching an idea management system, [...]
Companies come to IdeaScale for a number of reasons. One of the reasons that they want a software solution to collect employee ideas is because they’re afraid that they’ll miss [...]
There are a number of ways that participating in or administrating an innovation program can help build your career. If you’re wondering how to build careers with innovation, look to [...]
One of our customers recently had the good fortune to hear Adam Grant speak at an event. Adam Grant "has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years. He is a leading expert on [...]
There was this great infocomic a few years ago that talked about the virtues of online brainstorming. Although there are lots of benefits that we’ve discussed in our blog before [...]
Stress is something that affects all of us at some point in our lives. Although some amount of stress is unavoidable, businesses need to recognize the importance of creating as [...]
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 [...]