Innovation Management

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.

6 Innovation Takeaways from Planview IdeaPlace’s 2016 Ignite Summit

Last week the 2016 Ignite Summit took over San Francisco. And it was amazing. From the inspiring sessions led by industry leaders to the thought-provoking discussions during breaks, you couldn’t help but feel the energy flowing throughout the conference venue. The best part about Ignite? All the useful information and actionable advice that came out...

Unilever: Making Sustainable Living a Reality Through Global Collaboration

How would you make sustainable living a reality? If you’re a company like Unilever, you collaborate with a community that’s spread across the world – from employees to entrepreneurs. Just to jog your memory, Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of food, home, and personal care products, reaching two billion consumers a day...

Planview IdeaPlace Recognized as a Leader in Innovation Management in New Report

Innovation management software is quickly becoming a go-to solution for companies in all industries who want to transform their businesses and stay competitive for years to come. We’ve seen this trend pick up steam as the number of companies leveraging innovation management continues to grow. Forrester, an independent technology and market research company, has also...

Dev Patnaik To Share Innovation Knowledge at Planview IdeaPlace’s Ignite Summit

With the 2016 Ignite Summit right around the corner, we’re thrilled to share with you one of the newest additions to our list of amazing speakers. Dev Patnaik is the Founder and CEO of Jump Associates, a strategy and innovation firm that helps companies create new businesses and reinvent existing ones — their impressive list of clients include:...

Navigating the Make Versus Buy Decision: a Crowdsourced Check List

Product managers facing the make versus buy decision for their organization have a lot to consider. Biases abound. In this article, the innovation architect Doug Collins shares what was on the minds of senior product management leaders on this topic when they convened, recently. Their top 10 factors follow below. The Make versus Buy versus...

How to Get Buy-in for Your Innovation Project

Editor’s note: this is a guest post by Steve Glaveski. Getting (and retaining) buy-in from decision makers for innovation projects is often the stumbling block that many a corporate innovator and intrapreneur faces. Securing buy-in seems akin to a dark art of sorts that only the most astute political game players and people influencers are capable...

The Global Race to Innovate is on: Planview IdeaPlace’s Annual Growth up by 32%

Today, the Planview IdeaPlace team is happy to announce record business growth with a 32% increase in new customers in 2015 as well as significant expansion across major industry segments including: financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy. In working with innovation practitioners from global organizations such as AT&T, Citibank, Unilever, and Pfizer, – one thing...

Building a Culture of Innovation: How to Support One Effectively

Editor’s note: this is a guest post by Steve Glaveski. “Move fast and break things.” This was the mantra of Facebook in its early days, as is the case with most startups that subscribe to the iterative product development method popularized by the Lean Startup. However, a startup’s primary job is to discover new sustainable business...

Innovation is Change

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Braden Kelley. Can you think of a single innovation that didn’t change something? I didn’t think so. Innovation is change, or at least, innovation requires change. In my role as an innovation keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, I recently led a German-based industrial company’s North American IT...

2016 Ignite Summit: Announcing Speakers from Pfizer, CH2M on Innovation

With just 79 days left until this year’s Planview IdeaPlace Ignite Summit, we’re excited to announce our first round of top-notch speakers. Last year, over 140 leaders from globally recognized companies like IBM, AT&T, MetLife, Cigna, PwC, Unitedhealth Group, Siemens, Estee Lauder and more gathered at our Boston Summit to share new ideas, challenges, and findings resulting...