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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.
Michael Edwards and his team of global digital experts spend a lot of time determining what Amway distributors need to support their growing ventures. Like teams all across the company, helping distributors – Amway calls them Amway Business Owners – succeed is their total focus. But something was missing. “We had a bunch of corporate...
Today’s healthcare industry is in a constant state of evolution. As research unearths disruptive findings, patient demographics become more diverse, and technologies advance at an increasingly rapid pace, groundbreaking ideas are crucial to effecting positive change. The eHealth Initiative iThrive Innovation Challenge The team at eHealth has just launched an exciting new open innovation challenge...
Editor’s Note: Don Wettrick is an educational speaker, professional, and innovation evangelist. A two-time Microsoft® Innovative Educator award winner, he believes that bringing innovation into the classroom can serve as a community hub of progress and change, and advocates that when you give students a class based on freedom and autonomy, they can accomplish incredible things....
In this week’s thought leadership roundup, we take a look at TL strategies that support innovation, 9 behaviors that drive it, and the 4 common characteristics of great content. How To Create A Thought Leadership Strategy That Supports True Innovation From SAP Business Innovation: “It’s true that thought leaders tend to be the most successful professionals...
In this week’s thought leadership roundup, we take a look at what gives companies the capacity to innovate, what it means to claim digital victory, and the best way to measure your TL efforts. Essential Components of Innovation Capacity From Innovation Excellence: “‘There are no low technology industries, there are only low technology companies: companies that...
Business innovation: no matter what industry you’re in, it’s a priority, a strategy, a goal, a primary objective — or at minimum, a phrase you can’t seem to get away from. There’s good reason for the focus: studies show that innovation leaders outperform competitors 39% of the time, and that their average revenue increases by 23% year over...
This year, Planview IdeaPlace hosted our first ever Ignite Innovation Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. Packed with opportunities, success stories, and inspirational talks from some of today’s most noteworthy enterprise innovation leaders, the outcome was truly remarkable. Over 140 attendees from globally recognized companies like IBM, AT&T, MetLife, Cigna, PwC, Pfizer, Unitedhealth Group, Siemens, Estee Lauder and more came...
Innovation has long been central to the strategy of successful companies. But innovation is more than just ramping up R&D. 2015 marks the shift from the information economy to the innovation economy — one that’s focus is a future of impact and influence, filled with endless new ways to deal with global business challenges and...
Innovation has always been a driver of advancement, competitive edge and ultimately global change. No matter the industry, a company that consistently innovates defines the bar by which success is measured. This February, Mindjet hosted an exclusive Innovation Forum in Sydney, Australia, featuring a presentation from AMP’s Director of Design and Innovation,Munib Karavdic. Karavdic leads...
For some, networking is a dirty word that conjures up images of awkward conversations and handshakes that last too long. But happily, the meaning of the word is evolving. Business leaders continue to see increasing value in collaborative ideation, and are reaping the many benefits that result from cultivating both internal and external innovation networks....
