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 a great idea that comes from someone in their workforce. Of course, this means that a company needs to have the capability to recognize and … Continued
Sometimes companies are afraid to launch a crowdsourced innovation program, because they’re afraid that they’ll have to deliver on an avalanche of ideas. And although it’s true that organizations often see an outpouring of ideas from their employees, high levels of innovation are hardly correlated with the ability to deliver on every idea – they … Continued
Data can tell us a lot, but not everything. The numbers, so the saying goes, do not lie. The idea that cold, hard data tells us everything we need to know about everything is hugely popular at the moment. Algorithms and machine learning will tell us all we need to know, right? Perhaps, but history … Continued
There is a growing body of research that is dedicated to analyzing what kind of music makes an employee work more efficiently, joyfully, or precisely. Here are a few interesting working theories for music in the workplace. Music can help in task efficiency. One study found that if you’re completing repetitive tasks, listening to music … Continued
Most of the messages in my inbox nowadays are not only addressed to me in the subject line, they sometimes include cute abbreviations or nicknames of my given name. If I visit a webpage or an online video, I can see which of my Facebook friends (no matter how distant) have already liked it. Every … Continued
Jessica Day