Exago’s model proves that gamification can successfully be applied to innovation, as we have seen these last few weeks. As a result, the ideation process becomes highly engaging, highly efficient and sustainable over time.
Why should you gamify innovation, anyway?
Gamification relates to the desire for status, achievement and competition, making people feel fulfilled by their activities. But what benefits does this actually bring to your innovation initiatives?
Gamifying innovation: get to know your players
The greatest challenge in gamifying your innovation initiatives is to construct the process so that everyone, or at least the…
TIP: The checklist for your innovation programme success
Below is a checklist that, in our experience, will increase your odds of successfully implementing innovation initiatives. You will learn that there is never an ideal moment to get started and that you will never have all the necessary components aligned at the same time.
TIP: For those who know the innovation clock is ticking
Now that the year comes to an end, we have good news and bad news. Let’s start with the bad news: Arthur D. Little’s Innovation Excellence Survey found a growing number of companies realise that they have failed to make innovation everyone’s business. And this is costing them dearly.
TIP: The innovation keystone you may be missing
When launching your innovation management effort, you must find a way to communicate that the initiative is bigger than just a simple project. We’re talking about the opportunity to define the company’s future. The opportunity to out-differentiate your competition and, more importantly, to write history together.
The idea management foot soldiers
Idea management software – functioning as an ‘idea market’ – has proven to be highly effective at unleashing your people’s hidden innovation potential. Geared to reaching goals, this gets each person to engage and participate more over time, whether you’re seeking to improve performance, find new products and methods or develop a widespread, collaborative culture of innovation.
Beyond Tech and Elusive Geniuses – The Everyday Innovation Heroes
Apple, Google and General Electric success stories centre on groundbreaking characters and geniuses. But 99% of companies worldwide are unlike…
Cross-border innovation initiatives: 10 best practices
‘To make your idea management initiatives thrive across countries, you need high levels of engagement, as well as process efficiency to manage this engagement and its outputs’, said Pedro do Carmo Costa. Exago’s director spoke at the Innovation Management.se Channel One Roundtable Discussion, sharing field-tested best practices to ensure international companies succeed in their innovation efforts.
Back to basics: What is your purpose?
As we’ve seen, the challenge for innovation pioneers came when a more adverse economic climate infected the corporate world. Innovation became a secondary concern, even seen as the cause of the sudden climate change. It had distracted us from our core values.