Creating a sustainable workplace has become a pressing concern for private and public entities alike. Reducing waste and carbon emissions demands new approaches, ideas, and strategies to develop momentum around sustainability, and a custom sustainability plan to fit each organization’s needs. Many workplaces have turned to idea sharing initiatives and…

Highlights Crowdsourcing is part of NASA’s innovation strategy, drawing on private and public organizations. NASA has launched a crowdsourcing initiative to help process the spectrometry data coming from rovers to find potential evidence of life on Mars. The resulting innovation will help with far more than just finding potential proof…

Highlights Government innovation is being increasingly centered around data access, such as big and open linked data (BOLD). The Federal Data Strategy (FDS) is helping government agencies break down silos and use similar methods of organizing data and building data-sharing infrastructure. Government innovation and private innovation strategies can develop virtuous…

Highlights Innovation strategy requires a plan for scaling innovation. Building scaling processes into your innovation platform, like those created by IdeaScale, makes it easier to move pilot projects and department-scale approaches to a broader scope. Scaling innovation requires clear goals, properly delegated responsibility, access to the right tools, and long-term…

Innovation strategy only works if the ideas you collect are acted upon — but the workflow development process can slow down innovation if you’re building it from scratch. …

The Challenge Winpak makes high-quality packaging materials and packaging machines to protect sensitive and perishable items such as food and medicine in transit with operations around the globe. As such, it’s constantly striving for new ideas and packaging innovation to upgrade its processes and products. The company had an innovation program in…

The Importance of Disability Awareness Many more people are disabled in some way than those who are conventionally able might realize. …

One of the central curiosities of the COVID-19 pandemic is that innovation festivals have had to show some innovation themselves. In 2022, one fascinating theme we’ve noticed is what’s stuck. Virtual conferences in particular seem to be one trend that will linger after the pandemic. Even the in-person events we…

Highlights The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) has allocated billions of dollars to federal, state, and municipal government innovation efforts. How those funds are spent will depend on federal and state directives, goals, and initiatives. Several municipalities and states are already putting the funds to innovative use. The American Rescue…