San Francisco, CA February 10, 2016 – IdeaScale, the California-based innovation management solution, today announced its acquisition of InnovationManagement.se (IM), the world's leading platform for cutting-edge innovation management content, best practices and online training programs. This decision comes as part of IdeaScale's mission to offer an end-to-end innovation solution for organizations of all sizes.
Why the Crowd is a Great Resource for Travel and Transportation Organizations
Are you a public transit user? Or an airline traveler? Or a train rider? Travel and transportation organizations want to hear from you! Why are they so interested in what you have to say? Because they have realized that the crowd is one of the best resources available to them.
One of the commonalities for our Innovation Management Awards winners this year was the focus on quality of life. The improvement of quality of life is also a key focus for the New York Police Department (NYPD), and they're using IdeaScale to do it.
This article is a guest post from Manasi Talikoti from questionpro.com . You can read the companion article on the QuestionPro blog . Once Robin Williams said "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world" Are you one of those people that thinks they can change the world with their crazy ideas?
Although it may be difficult to remember, try to think back to last year-a whole month ago-when we announced our 2015 Innovation Management Award winners . Back then, we pointed out two commonalities between our three winners, two things that they focused on when engaging in their crowdsourcing campaigns: inclusivity and transparency, and an improvement in…
Totem is a crowd-powered innovation consultancy which has worked with Global Fortune 500 companies, using IdeaScale solutions, to plan, present, and manage successful innovation campaigns. They do this through an online curriculum, which is customizable to your learning goals. In the ever-evolving world, crowdsourcing feels very democratizing and also introduces you to minds and ideas…
With over 101 million in the US alone, iPhone users make up a sizable population. Imagine the value a population that size holds for researchers in medical fields like Diabetes, Parkinson's, and drug abuse and addiction. With the help of Apple's ResearchKit , medical researchers around the globe are getting to tap into this population to…
And that's a wrap on yet another year. They seem to go by so quickly, don't they? The time moves even more swiftly when you have great tools that help to make things more efficient and accessible. With that in mind, we are wrapping up this year and ringing in 2016 by celebrating IdeaScale's top…
The long awaited day has arrived! Having received some fantastic entries, we have officially chosen and are extremely pleased to share our winners for the 2015 Innovation Management Awards . Western Australian Police-Best Engagement Strategy The Western Australian Police (WAPOL) is the winner of the Best Engagement Strategy for their Frontline 2020 campaign.
Millions of people who can't access the power of technology are being left behind-excluded from a world of opportunity. In order to address this divide, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has launched the Living Progress Challenge . HPE is inviting the global community to bring forward great ideas and proposed solutions that answer the question: What software applications…
Several months ago, we first invited you to get your innovation fitness score by answering 10 simple survey questions; questions about your organization and its support for innovation (or lack thereof). Now, having a glance through the first batch of results, we are able to see some interesting trends, trends which are consistent across industry…
When thinking about ideation, one of the most important factors to consider is transparency. Although at first glance it may not seem to be so, transparency or the lack thereof can have a huge impact on the level of success of any innovation campaign.
IdeaScale is pleased to announce that the deadline for the 2015 Innovation Management Awards has been extended! We know how busy things can get around the holidays, so we wanted to provide a little extra time to submit. Please be sure to send your final submissions now by Friday, December 4.
Throughout the years, methods of gathering ideas have run the gamut. From the aforementioned cocktail napkin to the erstwhile suggestion box, these methods have mostly fallen by the wayside as their respective levels of effectiveness have gone down. Recent studies have shown that only 2-3% of ideas in a suggestion box system are ever implemented.
3 Reasons to Submit to Innovation Management Awards by This Friday!
The deadline to submit your applications for the 2015 Innovation Management Awards is this Friday, November 20 ! In this third annual competition of accomplishments in innovation management, three categories are open for submissions: Best Engagement Strategy, Best Moderation Strategy, and Best Innovation.
Are you an organization trying to find a way to innovate and respond to the needs of your customers? It could be the key to doing so is already under your own roof, so to speak. If you work with customers, it means you have employees who interact with those customers, which makes those employees…
One of the most exciting trends currently being utilized in pursuit of innovation is the incentivizing and gamifying of participation. Not only is it helpful and successful for the organizations which are using these strategies, it's also great for participants who get to reap the rewards of their good ideas.
This blog post is part of a new series authored by IdeaScale employees. It showcases how they're thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. Feel free to ask questions or make comments. This post is by Chase Facer , Product Designer at IdeaScale.
What should our first campaign be?" Funnily enough, that question itself is a fantastic starting campaign. When an organization first begins crowdsourcing solutions to their problems, opening with a call for questions is an incredibly effective strategy. The Department of Energy learned this firsthand when they initially launched their Sunshot Catalyst campaign.
3 Lessons in Innovation Management from Past Winners
In considering the qualities of future winners of the 2015 Innovation Awards, perhaps it's a good idea to look back on the strategies and commonalities of previous winners. While the nature of past winners run the gamut-from international businesses to government agencies, from universities to nonprofit organizations-there are notable pieces of their crowdsourced innovations that…
When speaking at a town hall meeting in Iowa recently, President Obama spoke against politically biased colleges which put restrictions on the guests and speakers that they invite to their campuses. He said, "Anybody who comes to speak to you and you disagree with, you should have an argument with them.
3 Vote On Idea During the webinar today, there was a point where the parent is re-directed to the national site to acknowledge their interest in joining. This would be an incredible opportunity to have a "Share this on Facebook" or other social networking icons.
Membership/ Error tag for adults not completed YPT
2 Vote On Idea With the new policy on registering adult volunteers only with Youth Protection Training. Can an error flag be added to the registration batch before posting? (EX: when SSN is needed) Comments (0) Applications & Registration
1 Vote On Idea Recently a great friend and former Scouting professional's son was killed in action while serving in the Marine Corps in Afghanistan. He was a former Scout in my service area. One item of recognition that exists but is relatively unknown is the Gold Star Memorial that can be put on a…
4 Vote On Idea Just like the report on Scoutnet that tells us the total youth served there should be one for adults. This could be used for United Way applications, calculating volunteer hours given to Scouting,and show how we have a strong(er) volunteer involvement by counting every adult served. Comments (2) Volunteers , technology
4 Vote On Idea With the recent requirement that all registered leaders have Youth Protection Training, it's become even more critical for youth, parents and adult leaders to be able to confirm that a Merit Badge Counselor is currently registered.
17 Vote On Idea The Training report section of MyBSA is ENTIRELY too complicated. It has entirely too many steps to drill down through. Putting together simple reports for a district becomes too time consuming. Also, please make training codes that make sense. Please make this more user friendly! Comments (0) Technology , training , mybsa
13 Vote On Idea During the recharter process have a section where the unit can enter the Scout's email address. This will allow for annual updating of email addresses. Entering an email when the Scout first registers is fine but it never gets updated in Scoutnet.
-11 Vote On Idea The current dark green socks are nice but a new alternative might prove to be better suitable for the outdoors. Ticks and Lyme disease have always been a problem in most parts of the northeast and some southern states.
17 Vote On Idea It would be very helpful if we (Council)were able to enter advancements similarly to the way volunteers can with Internet Advancements: If you have 15 youths earning the Fingerprinting Merit Badge (think Summer Camp) you could simply click on Fingerprinting Merit Badge and then click on the 15 youths out of…
34 Vote On Idea I sure hope that with Youth Protection being mandatory that they fix the reports to show dates. It would be nice if we could print out a report for each unit at rechartering time so they could look and see who is ready to expire so they can do the training…
11 Vote On Idea Since audited financial statements are required to be in 3 fund format, please change the Statement of Functional Expense to a 3 fund format. Also, I believe I've posted this before, but the 990b report also needs to be in 3 fund format. Comments (0) District and Council Operations
14 Vote On Idea Is there any way to set the RSS feed to include the subject line? It's difficult sometimes to connect comments with their original subject, especially when you're required to log in to view them which brings you to the main screen rather than the article you were looking for.
27 Vote On Idea I have had several customers ask me for a lapel pin or sticker for grandparents that are proud of thier eagle scout(s). Comments (0) Awards Criteria
Create Scouting Silly Bandz for School Rallies and boy talks
12 Vote On Idea Silly Bandz are a huge hit with all ages and would be great if we could create scouting related silly bandz. We could have a bow, arrow, fishing pole, tent, and marshmellow. We could use this as a recruiting incentive with membership recruitment Comments (5) Recruiting
22 Vote On Idea It seems that with local Council cooperation, it should be easy to determine who the longest tenured Scout in the nation is. I'm sure it's some 102 year old gentleman in Iowa or something, but it would be great to get some PR on this fellow into the national news to…
41 Vote On Idea In PAS FIND, when you look up a person's name, their ScoutNet ID shows. However, after you click on their name for further details, their ScoutNet ID is not shown on the next screen. Can we change this so when we click on their name for additional details their ScoutNet ID…
5 Vote On Idea Several chartered organizations have requested that the council notify them once a new adult's application has been accepted - so that they can restrict new adults from being active leaders until the background process is complete. Could the registrars' system somehow facilitate this?
3 Vote On Idea The online tour permit system is gaining popularity among units as a few kinks have been worked out. Now the back-end is posing issues when handling large numbers of submissions. When a large number of submissions exits, the approver's back-end list covers many pages.
3 Vote On Idea Many of my Scouts and leaders are having trouble with the .PDF format of the Eagle project workbook. Can we also have a .DOC (Word) or other formats available on-line. My District Eagle Project coordinator (approver) loves the getting the electronic documents but all are having trouble printing when certain sections…
26 Vote On Idea Recently, a volunteer went online to update his youth protection training since it had been two years. Instead of taking the entire course again, he simply took the quiz thinking "if i can pass the quiz and show that I still have the knowledge that should be good enough."
5 Vote On Idea Why not send all newly registered adult leaders a link to the On-line Learning Center to be able to complete training as soon as possible? It could possibly contain a welcome message from the Chief as well. Comments (0) Applications & Registration
6 Vote On Idea Has there been any discussion on changing the Billing Statements wording? We have donors that get upset over the phrases "Billing" Date and "Amount Due". They look at it as a donation and there is nothing due.
-13 Vote On Idea A way to show scouts and scouters you have completed youth protection training. This knot could only be puchased through your local scout shop and only with your training cirtificate in hand. Comments (1) Other
3 Vote On Idea For those who have completed the national youth leadership training. You have to take the patch off upon turning 18, and youth should be recognized for the training. Comments (0) Other
6 Vote On Idea I was surprised to read the e-mail about changing the volunteer help desk number to a regular, long-distance number. Because local councils do not have access to MyBSA accounts, we cannot look up accounts or passwords in order to help them.
4 Vote On Idea Why are all the slots for the Cub Scout Delivery Method Webinars during the workday? Many volunteers would be more able to participate if some were offered off-hours. Comments (0) Cub Scouting
0 Vote On Idea Right now we have "My scouting" for Tour Permits, Internet recharting and our council uses "Doubleknot" for camping registrations and email list. The council and the National council have different needs so we have different eystems, but leaders have just one need.
Video Game Belt Loop to mental fitness or addiction awareness
-7 Vote On Idea What if we discontinue the video game belt loop and replace it with an "addiction awareness" belt loop or "mental fitness" belt loop? Kids do play video games, but it is when it becomes an addiction that the problems begin.
