Align Innovation Incentives to Goals
A lot of crowdsourced innovation programs will tell you to offer incentives to your community of participants in order to drive engagement – but sometimes that’s a challenge for organization [...]
13 Things to Know About Crowdsourcing
United Way is engaged in nearly 1,800 communities across more than 40 countries and territories worldwide. As the largest privately-funded nonprofit in the world, United Way creates solutions that build stronger [...]
Holiday Incentives – Let’s Get Festive!
The holiday season is a great time to crowdsource, because creativity will be at its peak when people mix at holiday parties and share new ideas. But, it’s also a [...]
3 Tactics that Make Innovation Management Easier
IdeaScale learns from all its best customers, but in our latest interview with Redwood Credit Union we learned three things that make innovation management easier: Pre-Populate Your Campaign. When RCU [...]
3 Reasons to Submit to Innovation Management Awards by This Friday!
The deadline to submit your applications for the 2015 Innovation Management Awards is this Friday, November 20! In this third annual competition of accomplishments in innovation management, three categories are [...]
Incentivizing & Gamifying Innovation
One of the most exciting trends currently being utilized in pursuit of innovation is the incentivizing and gamifying of participation. Not only is it helpful and successful for the organizations [...]
The Difficulty of Building a Crowd
“The hardest part of crowdsourcing is to achieve critical mass and sustain the volume and activity of the crowd.” – Jeff Howe Journalist and crowdsourcing advocate Jeff Howe hit the [...]
IdeaScale Introduces the Innovation Starter Kit
Launching an innovation program can be overwhelming. This guide outfits innovation leaders and teams with the tools that they will need to reduce workload and plan for a successful implementation [...]
Innovation Awards Close This Friday
IdeaScale announced the 2013 Open Innovation Awards in August and after several months, applications, questions, truly strange stories and stranger requests, the period for sharing is almost over. The Innovation [...]
Open Innovation Awards: 3 Things We’re Looking For
The deadline to submit Open Innovation Awards is almost upon us (November 8th) and we’re truly looking forward to reviewing some compelling stories and sharing some new best practices. But [...]