Innovation

Top 12 Free Online Brainstorming Tools in 2022

Brainstorming is how innovation starts, yet coordinating it can require innovation in and of itself. These web-focused brainstorming tools will allow you and your team to put together more ideas and collaborate smoothly. Even when you’re miles away it can

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 a common goal of innovative thinking as well. In reality,

Best Practices for Engaging Your Innovation Community

Get everyone in the community involved. Developing a broad and deep innovation community puts a wonderful resource at your fingertips. Yet tapping into that resource requires more than just cheerleading. Here's how to bring your community together and work toward

Why Communication is the Key to Enterprise Innovation

According to Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen, 95% of all product innovations fail after their release on the market. This statistic points to a major discrepancy between the solutions that businesses are offering and the problems that customers want

Crowdsourced Innovation: Three Things I Learned

The three things I learned about crowdsourced innovation are: Innovation is required to be competitive, creating a concrete innovation system helps firms get ahead, and the hardest aspects of crowdsourced innovation are participation and accountability.

New Podcast Series to Highlight Real-Life Innovation Stories

Podcasts themselves are examples of innovation, bringing together compressed audio, RSS feeds, and mobile listening devices into a medium that was born on the internet. So it’s no surprise that IdeaScale has tapped into this innovative medium for its new

Blockchain: A Real-World Example of the Power of Innovation

Some examples of the power of innovation change the world or create industries that never existed before. Blockchain is one of them. The first white paper about blockchain technology was released in 2008. The paper provided details of how blockchain could bring

Why Perfectionism Stifles Innovation

Striving for excellence is not the same thing as demanding perfection. Striving for excellence opens up possibilities while demanding perfection attempts to carve outcomes in stone. It’s easy to see how perfectionism can stifle an innovation strategy and constrain people

Crowdsourcing Trends Shaping the Future of Innovation

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Essentially, it is the process of obtaining information or ideas from as many