Innovation

5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

In our minds, technology and innovation are interconnected.  However, for every technological advancement, there seems to be a learning curve or adjustment period as we try to figure out how to implement automation into our daily lives. Sometimes the problem

How to Identify Leaders among Your Staff

Innovation can’t thrive without leadership. Innovation leadership is emerging as a primary need of today’s businesses. It isn’t enough to have an outstanding leadership team today. You have to think ahead to the leaders your organization will have in the

What Role Does Practicality Play in Innovation?

Innovation is not just an endless succession of blue-sky concepts. In fact, if you think about it, innovations quite often make the practical aspects of life better. Banking from your phone is one example of innovation with practical results. While innovations

Key Takeaways from April’s Open Innovation Summit

The Open Innovation Summit is all about expanding innovation beyond a small committee or a lab in the building to your entire organization. Just like any other scaling project, taking innovation company-wide can come with unexpected obstacles. Ideascale's Jessica Day attended

Motivate to Innovate: How?

Engagement is a challenge even in the most innovative companies. Bringing in stakeholders across the board will take more than just a welcome email and a few meetings. Here's how to gear your company for innovation, to motivate to innovate,

How Change Management and Innovation Intersect

Innovation by definition means change. Not all change, however, is innovative. Change – whether innovative or not – is inevitable, and the people and companies that regard change as a leverageable asset are the ones that end up better off

How to Nurture Your Own Spirit of Innovation Daily

Innovation is ultimately about solving problems. While it’s possible to solve problems in both innovative and non-innovative ways, innovative problem-solving has the potential to make major changes to what people do, how they conduct business, and how they live life. Problem-solving is a skill

How to Run a Hackathon that Spurs Real Innovation

Hackathons originally emerged as a way to quickly advance software technologies and identify new areas for technology innovation. The term has since evolved to encompass other types of intensive collaboration events. Though hackathons often make use of software, they’re no

How to Measure Your Organization’s Innovation Maturity

Before you can assess your organization's innovation maturity, you have to ask and answer the question, “What does innovation mean to us?” Unless your organization has deliberately built a culture of innovation throughout, answers to that question will vary –