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Disruption is all around but today's innovative organizations leverage the power of the crowd to set themselves apart. The innovation management blog dives into topics like employee engagement, crowdsourcing, and how to get those concepts from idea to the market. Get insights related to concept development, creating winning challenges, and best practices for engaging your audience to enable your organization to crowdsource breakthrough ideas from the employees, partners, and customers that know their business best. Discover how to prioritize and track all ideas in your pipeline, from original conception to delivery -- in new products and services, improved processes, and enhanced customer experience. You will also find real-world stories, industry research, and more.
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...
Fact: great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time. Look inside your organization. How many employees do you have? 1,000? 10,000? Somewhere in your organization is an employee, maybe more than one, with an idea that can transform your business. Unfortunately, not enough companies enable or encourage their employees, in all departments, to...
On April 29th, in order to solve their biggest business challenges, Visa turned to the startup community for help with the announcing of its second-annual Everywhere Initiative. The Everywhere Initiative is a challenge where Visa presents three business problems that call for solutions from the startup community. Winning startups receive $50,000 to pilot their ideas...
Practicing collaborative innovation takes time, money, and attention. Organizational leaders ask practitioners to “show me the ROI.” How does the practice benefit the organization? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores how engagement serves as the return on the front end of the practice—and why engagement matters. Go with the flow People who practice...
Last week was Innovation Enterprise’s Chief Innovation Officer Summit (CINO) held in San Francisco. Hundreds of innovation practitioners from different industries and with varied levels of experience came together for two-days of learning and sharing. The likes of Google, Qualcomm, Boeing, and Wells Fargo were among the diverse set of brands in attendance – and...
Your Creative Power A friend of mine runs the innovation and creativity practice at a large, global firm. He turned me onto the book, Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination to Brighten Life and to Get Ahead, by Alex Osborn. Osborn was one of the original “Mad Men” of advertising. Your Creative Power, published...
