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.

2/25 Innovation Cafe Webinars: UK and US Sessions with Siemens Mobility

Despite its recent elevation to popular-business-initiative-meets-buzzword, innovation isn’t just about companies staying competitive and boosting returns. At its heart, innovation is a global altruistic initiative to drive technological breakthroughs, revamp inefficiencies, and overall, improve the lives of people throughout the world. Siemens Mobility, an internationally-known enterprise company dedicated to advancing transportation services and technology, will join us...

Introducing Planview IdeaPlace Insights: Better Data for Better Decisions

Capturing insights and performing sophisticated analytics in real-time for your innovation programs is critical to your success. That’s why we’re so excited to announce the addition of Insights visual reporting and analytics to our Planview IdeaPlace innovation management software. Our new Insights capability provides deep business intelligence and visual analytics that will prove highly valuable...

Why Crowd Analytics Matter

Innovation is the epitome of an umbrella term. It’s associated with everything from new ideas to revised processes and modifications, and takes on countless shapes and meanings depending on different industries, organizations, and individuals. This indefinite concept of innovation isn’t, by itself, a structure or process. When done correctly, it’s not a boilerplate, one-size-fits-all solution, nor is...

1/21 Innovation Cafe Webinar: New Planview IdeaPlace Predictions Module Helps Forecast Innovation ROI

This past October, we proudly introduced the latest great feature of our Planview IdeaPlaceEngage innovation software: the new Predictions Module, which, when coupled with patented, advanced algorithms, allows organizations to forecast the revenue, time-to-market, and implementation costs associated with an idea. These predictions provide valuable quantitative data that allows organizations to make better business decisions and...

IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation: 9 Innovation Thought Leaders from Around the Globe

Happy holidays, innovation enthusiasts, and welcome to Planview IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation! This 2014 spotlight series features hand-picked resources, upcoming events, webcasts, thought leadership pieces, and more to give you an inspirational boost for the coming year. Enjoy! *** On the 9th day of innovation, we’d like to share with you: nine compelling innovation thought leaders worth knowing...

IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation: 8 of Our Favorite 2014 Blog Posts

Happy holidays, innovation enthusiasts, and welcome to Planview IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation! This 2014 spotlight series features hand-picked resources, upcoming events, webcasts, thought leadership pieces, and more to give you an inspirational boost for the coming year. Enjoy! *** On the 8th day of innovation, we’d like to share with you: eight of our favorite innovation blogs we’ve...

IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation: 7 Favorite Features

Happy holidays, innovation enthusiasts, and welcome to Planview IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation! This 2014 spotlight series features hand-picked resources, upcoming events, webcasts, thought leadership pieces, and more to give you an inspirational boost for the coming year. Enjoy! *** On the 7th day of innovation, we’d like to share with you: our seven favorite features offered in our...

IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation: 4 Customer Stories

Happy holidays, innovation enthusiasts, and welcome to Planview IdeaPlace’s 12 Days of Innovation! This 2014 spotlight series features hand-picked resources, upcoming events, webcasts, thought leadership pieces, and more to give you an inspirational boost for the coming year. Enjoy! *** On the fourth day of innovation, we’d like to share with you: four of our favorite customer stories —...

The New Planview IdeaPlace Predictions Module: Forecasting the Value of Ideas Using Crowd Input

Crowdsourcing ideas is quickly becoming the standard procedure in enterprise innovation. The diversity of ideas and input that large groups of people can provide makes innovation programs more agile and predictable. This makes gathering and selecting ideas faster and more fruitful, but leaves the financial impacts out of the picture. However, it turns out that...

Planview IdeaPlace Sponsors the Chicago Innovation Summit 2014

This year, Planview IdeaPlace is proud to sponsor the 2014 Open Innovation Summit in Chicago, taking place this week on October 30th and 31st. With an incredible lineup of speakers and attendees, this year’s event promises to showcase how the “accumulation of technological advances and exponentially accelerating innovation can open the door to great opportunity.” What...