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innovation day

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Innovation Day - Challenge the Status Quo & Reach for Innovative Solutions [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Every year, the world of innovation pushes boundaries and reshapes our lives. The Ezassi Innovation Management Software, Strategy & Services team trusts you’ll identify an organization-wide opportunity to celebrate your advancements and envision the future. Here are some great dates to consider: February 11 A popular celebration of human ingenuity is February 11th, National Inventors Day, which began in 1983 in the United States. It recognizes new inventions and inspires innovators in honor of the anniversary of the birth of Thomas Alva Edison, one of America's most famous and prolific inventors. February 16 A similar commemoration found on many calendars is “Innovation Day,” often set for February 16. This date provides a niche for American tech companies to carve their own narrative around innovation.  This date lacks a defined history, though it presents a unique opportunity for organizations to collectively shape its meaning...

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what is innovation management

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Navigating Innovation Management: Implement a Scalable Process and Engaging Platform for Enterprise Ideation and Collaboration Creating Open Innovation Solutions [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="22px"][vc_column_text]Regardless of your organization’s innovation portfolio size or scope, every business needs a strategy and competitive advantage for growth and technological advancement. Supporting an innovative culture and adopting an innovation management platform across your company assesses valuable KPIs of the current pipeline and promotes future opportunities through the transformative power of innovation.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Defining Innovation Management  The Key Pillars of Innovation Management Tools and Techniques for Innovation: Idea Management, Pipeline Management, and Technology Discovery Software & Innovation Services  The Benefits of Innovation Management [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Defining Innovation Management: [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="22px"][vc_column_text]Innovation management is the process of nurturing and guiding the development of new ideas, products, services, or processes within an organization. It’s the strategies, idea stage gate and workflows that move creative ideas, novel technologies, or key market insights through an efficient and transparent pipeline of challenge solvers and...

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intrapreneur ideation

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Invest in Intrapreneurs – Innovation Management Supports Your Organization’s Greatest Change Makers [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text]Intrapreneurs are those important team members with the optimism, intellect, initiative, and discipline to champion bright ideas and drive new project pipelines, establishing innovative change across the business. Does your organization nurture valuable intrapreneurship?  When internal team members are given the freedom to think like entrepreneurs, they become more motivated, creative, and engaged. They are not afraid to challenge the status quo and are driven to find innovative solutions to problems. By fostering intrapreneurship within your organization, you stimulate the development of disruptive ideas and invest in a collaborative work environment. The organization's collective intelligence is multiplied, leading to more innovative outcomes and solutions to your biggest challenges. How does a company encourage an intrapreneurial spirit in employees? By making their employees feel that their ideas are heard and transparent to others, fairly evaluated, and under consideration for future implementation. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] How...

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="22px"][vc_column_text] The Triple Bottom Line Approach in Innovation Strategy [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="22px"][vc_column_text]People | Planet | Profit – their intersection point is Sustainability, and an Idea Management Platform is the best solution to support this critical innovation strategy and the KPIs impacting the triple bottom line. Ezassi’s Idea Management Software is important for sustainability because it enables organizations to systematically gather and manage ideas for green initiatives, circularity, and improved environmental practices from employees, customers, and other stakeholders. By collecting ideas from a diverse range of sources, businesses can tap into the collective creativity and expertise of their innovation ecosystem to identify potential solutions to their sustainability challenges.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] An Idea Management Platform to Focus on Environmental Initiatives [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="22px"][vc_column_text]An idea management platform provides a centralized location for idea collection, evaluation, and implementation, making it easier for organizations to track and manage sustainable initiatives. With the help of this software, organizations can prioritize and allocate resources to...

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ignite innovative culture

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This year is full of potential for innovative growth in your organization.  Ezassi is your partner in measurable and achievable business goals with the help of our innovation software and services. Innovative culture is not something you can turn on or off, rather it develops with time, intentionality, and synergy. Attract the right kind of talent and provide the motivation for a sustainable, confident innovative culture. If the right mechanisms are put in place, including KPIs, rewards, and specific processes to drive successful innovation, then your organization will find value ideating, working beyond a job role, risk taking, failing fast, and growing strong partnerships of collaboration. We propose you ask these twelve strategic planning questions and consider the resolutions for energizing your organization’s innovative culture. This is a month-by-month prompt to spark the innovative spirit of your company and illuminate a brighter innovation portfolio this year.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="42px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title="Resolutions to Ignite a Culture...

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smart grid

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Innovative Solutions for Big Energy [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="22px"][vc_column_text]The electric grid needs modernizing to support our expanding e-economy and national security. Innovative solutions for the energy sector are increasingly powered by collaborations across researchers, government officials and companies looking to harness emerging renewable technologies, update control systems and computing, and find new materials and methods to design regional energyshed management systems for a modern, efficient and de-carbonized grid. Adjacent technologies impacting the energy industry can be harnessed by collaborative project teams of engineers and leading organizations who seek to modernize power systems and continue to utilize renewable resources. Let’s plug in to some current topics in this sector.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Power Hungry Industries  [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="22px"][vc_column_text]The global economy will continue to demand more power and with that growth, greater energy security. Conventional power plants requiring energy sources from coal, natural gas, and nuclear should increasingly look to integrate renewable technologies like solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, and biomass...

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="22px"][vc_column_text]In the global race for innovation, industry leaders are speeding ahead in the engineering fields of satellites, rockets, robotics, drones, motorsports, and the future of mobility. It’s no longer enough to just keep the pace of your competitors. The objective is to outperform and outmaneuver, blazing the trail to new frontiers with faster, more cost-effective innovation solutions.  [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] The Race to Space : Launch Collaboration  [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="22px"][vc_column_text]There’s no bigger frontier for growth than space, and it takes an incredible team to assemble a successful mission. Rocket Lab, together with General Atomics, NOAA, and France’s National Center for Space Studies, completed an 8th launch in October 2022 to deliver a satellite to collect crucial global data from thousands of transmitters. The analysis of this physical and biological data will help scientists better understand the planet’s climate and biodiversity, as well as assist with maritime security, pollution tracking, and humanitarian assistance. You don’t have...

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Revolutionize the Future of Personalized Healthcare with Collaborative Medical Diagnostic & Treatment Technologies [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="22px"][vc_column_text]Bioconvergence is the merging and progress of the collaborative knowledge, research, and innovation in the fields of biology and technology.  There are limitless solutions for improved healthcare outcomes through the confluence of the latest research and skills from life scientists, molecular engineers, robotics, medical professional pioneers, and information technology experts. Bioconvergence is the future of global healthcare, so understanding some of the important discoveries and key research disciplines will better prepare future-looking companies in the Medical Devices, Pharmaceutical, Biotech, and Healthcare industries for substantial innovative change. Managing the workflow and relationships in this network of solvers requires a dynamic Innovation Resource Management platform. Let’s explore some of these technologies and partnerships.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Bioprinting, Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="22px"][vc_column_text]Biomedical engineering continues to disrupt health care and positively impact patient outcomes. 3D bioprinting and regenerative engineering are growing industries...

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ideation objectives

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Top 5 Ideation Objectives for Innovation [Infographic] [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]  Both a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Linus Pauling believed, “The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas...

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_text_separator title="Budget Planning for Innovation During Changing Economic Times"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]As the budgeting season kicks off, the C-Suites are issuing guidelines and financial targets despite unpredictable market conditions. Their goals for success lie in the adaptability and strength of their resources across the Innovation Portfolio.  From the Harvard Business Review article “An Agile Approach to Budgeting for Uncertain Times,” here are the curated questions your team should ask while planning for projects in the year ahead:[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="22px"][qodef_separator position="center" color="#f2f2f2"][vc_empty_space height="16px"][qodef_icon_with_text icon_pack="simple_line_icons" simple_line_icons="icon-question" icon_position="left" icon_type="normal" icon_size="qodef-icon-small" icon_animation="" icon_margin="10px" text="What are the outcomes that will be most important for strategic success?" text_left_padding="10px"][vc_empty_space height="16px"][qodef_icon_with_text icon_pack="simple_line_icons" simple_line_icons="icon-question" icon_position="left" icon_type="normal" icon_size="qodef-icon-small" icon_animation="" icon_margin="10px" text="Where should resources go? For example, running the business (operations) versus changing the business (innovations)?" text_left_padding="10px"][vc_empty_space height="16px"][qodef_icon_with_text icon_pack="simple_line_icons" simple_line_icons="icon-question" icon_position="left" icon_type="normal" icon_size="qodef-icon-small" icon_animation="" icon_margin="10px" text="Within innovation, what’s the right balance of resources going toward incremental innovation versus breakthroughs?" text_left_padding="10px"][vc_empty_space height="16px"][qodef_icon_with_text icon_pack="simple_line_icons" simple_line_icons="icon-question" icon_position="left" icon_type="normal"...

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