If you are introducing cost-cutting in your innovation agenda, your ultimate drive is to create a cost culture that sustains itself over time and is not forgotten three months after being announced by the leadership.
Innovation training day: Exago team updates its facilitation skills
With the aim of improving our team’s skills as innovation workshop facilitators, several Exago employees are attending a certified Workshop Facilitation Training in Lisbon, Portugal.
How innovation can help you conquer the new generations
A Gallup report shows that US companies lose $350 billion in revenue every year due to employees’ disengagement. In fact, 70 per cent of your employees are probably disengaged. Yet full participation is an emotional commitment that cannot be forced. With the Millennials and Generation Z joining the workplace, the challenge rises: no longer can we believe that it is enough for a company to provide the work, and that an employee’s motivation will come naturally.
How to pick useful and feasible ‘fights’ for innovation challenges
Here’s a simple but essential tip when establishing your innovation challenges: pick ‘fights’ that are useful and bring attainable value to your organisation.
Fighting for your audience? Take on the right incentives
Your customers will always be glad to share with you insights on how to improve your product. They’re probably doing it now in some way, though irregularly and outside any structured framework.
Decisions, decisions…
Be it through team idea contests or widespread programmes, we are enthusiasts of innovation’s number one rule: Give your teams a voice.
The idea management challenge. How do they do it?
The Brazilian company Fleury – a leading provider of clinical analyses in Latin America – has currently more than 10,000…
ELIS launches open innovation challenge for social and individual development
Associazione Centro ELIS, a non-profit organisation focused on preparing both young and adults for the labour market, is calling on…
10 best practices for cross-border innovation. Number 9 makes this a shared journey
People need to understand clearly the common journey ahead (purpose-driven communication in action), and to have a voice in the process. Besides, they need to trust the process.
10 best practices for cross-border innovation. Number 7 ignites motivation
‘What’s in it for me?’ is the question your people will ask. Incentives motivate people. It’s not necessarily about tangible rewards such as prizes, but, most of all, recognition. Being recognised and to gain visibility inside the organisation motivates people to contribute to idea management programmes in every stage of the process – from thinking to creation to action.