10 tips for running a world-class innovation contest

10 tips for running a world-class innovation contest

Addressing key steps to structure an annual innovation contest, based on culture and core values, that strengthens best practices. When it comes to sourcing ideas from across the organization, there’s a number of well-proven techniques ranging from specific event-based ideation sessions and broader innovation contests, challenges and pitch days, to ongoing enterprise innovation processes, incubators…

5 ways for public sector leaders to accelerate innovation in 2018

Leaders in public sector organizations are facing ever-increasing demands and expectations from their constituents to deliver services more effectively and efficiently, to streamline processes, improve productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction all the while dealing with limited resources in terms of personnel and budgets.  In this environment, innovation – and, more specifically, accelerating the…

No more Post-It’s: The case for software in your digital innovation sessions

With so much interest and activity around innovation workshops, design thinking workshops and other forms of event-based idea generation (ideation) sessions in support of digital transformation initiatives, it’s time to re-visit the age-old Post-It’s versus software debate. Of course, a well-run ideation session using Post-It’s will trump a less-effectively run session using software every time,…