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.

Planview IdeaPlace Advances Platform Flexibility to Support Ever Wider Variety of Use Cases

It doesn’t matter if you’re the most valuable company on the market or a new startup, companies are always changing and adapting to market conditions. Over the last 11 years, to meet those ever changing needs, we’ve seen crowdsourced innovation evolve into a key component in corporate strategies. Companies are leveraging crowdsourced innovation to achieve...

Boosting Efficiency with State-Of-The-Art Machine Learning

In Planview IdeaPlace’s recent 2018 Fall Product release announcement, we shared that we developed a new machine learning technology that’s first of its kind in innovation management software. The technology, which will continue to be developed and applied in new ways, brings on a whole new level of efficiency for innovation program managers and users...

Drive Greater Employee Engagement with Planview IdeaPlace’s New Capabilities

A recent Gallup study found that employee disengagement costs businesses $7 trillion a year. Yes…7 trillion! Meanwhile, research shows that investments made by organizations to increase employee engagement have barely had an impact over the last 15 years. $7 trillion in costs and employee engagement stagnation for the past 15 years…the status quo isn’t working...

IdeaPlace’s 2018 Fall Product Release: Machine Learning, New Use Cases, and More

The wait is over. Spigit’s 2018 fall product release is here, complete with industry-first capabilities and exciting new enhancements! The inspiration behind this release, which you’ll hear more about in the below video, was simple: help customers drive significant cultural change. This is important now more than ever. With that in mind, we set out...

Crowdsourcing: Bolstering Your Company’s Survival Kit

A company’s very survival relies not on a visionary CEO or group of executives but the collective knowledge of its employees and their ability to collaborate. The reality is, despite the spotlight that’s placed on founders, not one CEO or group of executives knows everything. New advances in technology, consumer behavioral changes, and a whole...

Building a Culture of Innovation: A Lesson from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Can the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum really teach you a thing or two about building an innovative culture? You bet. Read on. In an article on Innovation Leader, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO, Greg Harris, shared his thoughts on what innovation means to the nonprofit organization. One notable insight that...

Innovation Leaders: If You Show Impact, ROI Will Come

Innovation leaders: you don’t have to prove return on investment (ROI) right away, but you do have to show some impact. As a matter of fact, Spigit’s 2018 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report shows that only 47% of our customer base is tracking ROI on some or all actionable ideas while 63% cite lack of...

Planview IdeaPlace Client Awards: And the Winner Is…

Every year at Spigit’s annual conference, Ignite, we recognize clients in our innovation community whose programs have achieved remarkable feats. This year, we celebrated our client’s success in several categories, including: Best Employee Engagement Launch of the Year New Program of the Year Let’s take a closer look at the winners, their stories, and key...

What You Need to Know About Idea Software

What is idea software? Idea software, often referred to as idea management software, is a powerful solution that you can use to ask for, collect, analyze, and track ideas from diverse groups of people, also called a “crowd.” For businesses, this typically means employees, but many companies also use it to solicit and vet new...