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Recently, in our webinar, “The 7 Deadly Sins of Project Management” we learned from Justin Rowe, Practice Director at our consulting partner, Lewis Fowler. In the presentation, Justin discussed the sins of project management as well as how to recognize and correct them. This resulted in mass attendee participation in questions, many of them very...
Companies that use innovation management tools — such as Planview IdeaPlace — in conjunction with their collaborative innovation practices regularly come up with new and interesting use cases. Because organizations have begun to staff and fund internal business incubators, employees now have the tools, training, and space they need to pursue ideas. Collaborative Innovation and Authentic Breakthroughs...
In the wake of new technological advances in pretty much every industry, a growing number companies have identified a new way to surface new opportunities for driving both business and societal value. What is it? Crowdsourced innovation, managed by innovation management software. Crowdsourced innovation is simply the process of gathering and surfacing ideas and solutions...
Today, we’re proud to share the release of a new book authored by Doug Collins, VP of Innovation Architecture at Planview IdeaPlace. This book, titled Great Question! Generating Effective Questions for Successful Outcomes, is intended for the leader of a group of people who would like to help that group identify the critical question for...
Editor’s note: The following Q&A is an extension of a webinar about external innovation hosted by Doug Williams, Director of Innovation Strategy at Planview IdeaPlace. The questions were provided by webinar attendees. Q: When it comes to external innovation, can you provide some examples of incentives for participation? Also, can you give some examples of...
Several years ago I was working with the technology team supporting a very large player in the consumer packaged goods industry. This group was focused internally on how they might pursue collaborative innovation in order to serve their brand clients with more compelling insights. Our engagement was at the time when companies began taking big...
At Planview IdeaPlace, we obsess over helping our customers innovate using the power of crowdsourcing. Whether it’s making sustainable living commonplace, like Unilever, or tirelessly looking to improve patient care, like UnitedHealth Group, their success is our top priority. Today, I’m excited to announce Planview IdeaPlace’s new Customer Advisory Board in which some of today’s...
Exciting things are happening at Planview IdeaPlace! We’ve just announced that we set yet another growth record with the first half of 2016 up by 60% and Q2 2016 was up by 120%, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of record new customer growth and revenue growth. This year has seen a lot of innovation here...
Editor’s note: Last month, Maggie Riad, VP of Innovation Strategy at Planview IdeaPlace, held a webinar: ‘10 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement in your Innovation Program’. This article is a continuation of this webinar, which you can watch on-demand, where Maggie answers several questions that came up but didn’t have a chance to answer. Q:...
Augmented and virtual reality technologies are here. While still arguably in their infancy, it won’t be long until the technologies reach a level of maturity where companies can’t ignore the value they can add to business processes and engagement. One industry that has truly begun to value this new wave of technology is manufacturing. In...
