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Planview IdeaPlace Executive Releases New Book

Today, we’re proud to share the release of a new book authored by Doug Collins, VP of Innovation Architecture at Planview IdeaPlace. This book, titled Great Question! Generating Effective Questions for Successful Outcomes, is intended for the leader of a group of people who would like to help that group identify the critical question for...

6 Pressing External Innovation Questions Answered

Editor’s note: The following Q&A is an extension of a webinar about external innovation hosted by Doug Williams, Director of Innovation Strategy at Planview IdeaPlace. The questions were provided by webinar attendees. Q: When it comes to external innovation, can you provide some examples of incentives for participation? Also, can you give some examples of...

5 Questions to Ask When Managing the EA Side of Mergers and Acquisitions [Mind Map]

Just like two individuals coming together in a relationship, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can be thought of similarly – an exciting proposal that is rife with potential landmines and arguments of what will stay and what will go. So managing EA in mergers & acquisitions can be difficult. In theory, you want to create something greater...

We Don’t Ask Very Good Questions, Do We?

Several years ago I was working with the technology team supporting a very large player in the consumer packaged goods industry. This group was focused internally on how they might pursue collaborative innovation in order to serve their brand clients with more compelling insights. Our engagement was at the time when companies began taking big...

Planview IdeaPlace Announces New Customer Advisory Board

At Planview IdeaPlace, we obsess over helping our customers innovate using the power of crowdsourcing. Whether it’s making sustainable living commonplace, like Unilever, or tirelessly looking to improve patient care, like UnitedHealth Group, their success is our top priority. Today, I’m excited to announce Planview IdeaPlace’s new Customer Advisory Board in which some of today’s...

Exponential Growth in 2016 for Planview IdeaPlace

Exciting things are happening at Planview IdeaPlace! We’ve just announced that we set yet another growth record with the first half of 2016 up by 60% and Q2 2016 was up by 120%, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of record new customer growth and revenue growth. This year has seen a lot of innovation here...

Practical Ways to Improve Employee Engagement

Editor’s note: Last month, Maggie Riad, VP of Innovation Strategy at Planview IdeaPlace, held a webinar: ‘10 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement in your Innovation Program’. This article is a continuation of this webinar, which you can watch on-demand, where Maggie answers several questions that came up but didn’t have a chance to answer. Q:...

Siemens Leverages Startups to Transform Manufacturing with New Tech

Augmented and virtual reality technologies are here. While still arguably in their infancy, it won’t be long until the technologies reach a level of maturity where companies can’t ignore the value they can add to business processes and engagement. One industry that has truly begun to value this new wave of technology is manufacturing. In...

Managing Constraints Effectively with the Right Resource Planning Software – Enrich Consulting

Watch a three-minute overview of the Enrich Analytics features discussed in this case study. Growth is a good thing—it means larger market share, more profit, greater reach. But it also brings challenges, as a company struggles to allocate resources to support growth without over-committing itself. A rapidly growing pharmaceutical company faced exactly this dilemma: the company...

Managing Constraints Effectively with the Right Resource Planning Software – Enrich Consulting

Watch a three-minute overview of the Enrich Analytics features discussed in this case study. Growth is a good thing—it means larger market share, more profit, greater reach. But it also brings challenges, as a company struggles to allocate resources to support growth without over-committing itself. A rapidly growing pharmaceutical company faced exactly this dilemma: the company...