Strategic Planning

Operationalize strategic plans - from formulation to execution across the organization.

Assess Your Innovation Program

In today’s world of work, disruption—whether it’s from new technology, new business models, or customer experiences—is the new normal. Such disruption, impacting companies regardless of industry, is fueling the sense of urgency behind innovation. Either your organization is innovating or it’s getting swallowed up by the competition. That’s why having an effective innovation program is...

Innovation Management Trends

Companies of all sizes understand the importance of innovating and growing their business to avoid becoming stagnant, irrelevant, or an industry follower. One competitive advantage many top-performing companies have is how they incorporate ideation and innovation management into the company’s culture. In the webcast, “Can You Measure Innovation Impact? Announcing A New Science in Innovation,”...

Strategic Planning: The Types of Planning That Bring Your Strategy to Life

In this blog series, we are providing an overview of the seven planning types to help you deliver on strategy with a dynamic and continuous approach. In part one, we started with the basics of strategic planning and the need for a flexible and long-term approach, so you can zig when the market, competition, or...

Employee Engagement Propels Innovation

Most companies will agree that innovation is critical to sustaining growth and remaining competitive. Creating a culture of innovation is seen by most business leaders as the number one way to drive innovation for the business. However, for this culture to exist, employee engagement is imperative. Unfortunately, most aren’t. According to Gallup Inc.’s 2017 State...

Innovation Management: Discovering Solutions and Amplifying Innovation

When it comes to innovation management, solutions can come from the most unexpected sources. When a major airplane manufacturer struggled with completing a routine parts inspection that took much longer than its airline customers could afford, it was an administrative assistant with an idea from a Tom Cruise movie who had the answer. The parts...

A Fresh Approach to Maximizing Value of Government IT

One of the specific goals of The Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) is to “promote transparency in existing IT assets and allow better planning, acquisition, and management of software licenses and IT resources.” Essentially, FITARA provides new ways to maximize the value of government IT and, at a basic level, answers the following: What...

Crowdsourced Innovation: How Enterprises Generate Explosive Employee Engagement

According to Gallup’s 2017 State of the Global Workplace Report, a staggering 85% of employees are disengaged at work. In other words, the vast majority of the employees in Gallup’s research are not emotionally connected with their day-to-day work or company. The result? A whopping $7 trillion in lost productivity, turnover, poor customer experience, absenteeism,...

Idea to Impact, Amplified with Planview

Today is an exciting day for the Planview IdeaPlace business and all the customers we serve, as we announce that Planview IdeaPlace has been acquired by Planview, the global leader in work and resource management (WRM). IdeaPlace’s mission and commitment has long been to support our customers as they drive sustained innovation by engaging employees...

Gray Space: How to Develop Valuable Ideas and Get Them Across the Finish Line

Ideating and selecting winning ideas – ideas deemed worthy of further development – is half the battle when it comes to crowdsourced innovation. The other half, which is arguably the most important part of the innovation process, is what you do after you’ve selected the top ideas from a crowdsourced innovation challenge. As you narrow...