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8 Practices to Fire Up Your Innovation Culture
Discover eight fundamental practices to engage your workforce and fire up your innovation culture.
Inspiring Innovation Success Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Discover how Planbox has been playing a supportive role in these disruptive times.
Uncover Breakthrough Innovation Using Insights
True innovators question if they’re even actually solving the right problems by using the right insights.
ISO 56000 Standards on Innovation Management
Discover how you can leverage the Innovation Management ISO Series for your organization.
Driving Sustainable Innovation Through Collaboration
Key insights from Wayne Kurtzman’s research on the importance of purpose-driven collaboration.
The Forrester Wave™: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1 2020
Planbox receives the highest score in strategy AND current offering.
State of Corporate Innovation Report
Get rich insights into the structural approaches and strategies for innovation management at leading organizations.
What The Future Looks Like Report
Get data and perspectives on the next 12 months, and find out what the innovation community believes the ‘new normal’ might be.
Study of Product Team Performance and Innovation Processes
The study identifies mature innovation processes as a top factor contributing to higher levels of product team performance.
Innovation Leader Research Report
We partnered with Innovation Leader to bring you this research report on Quick Wins: Data and Case Studies on Delivering Results Fast.
Planbox Express
Planbox Express is a turnkey cloud-based solution for organizations that want to implement a prepackaged fast track innovation management system.
Continuous Improvement Software
A collaborative platform to identify and develop small incremental improvements in key business areas.
Boeing
Find out how Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), a unit of the Boeing Company, rapidly secured feedback from 8,000 managers on ways to improve decision support.
Chevron
Discover how one of the world’s leading integrated companies strengthened its revenue growth and customer loyalty by creating a superior experience for a new chain of branded convenience stores.
Chubb
Learn how one of the largest property and casualty insurers in the U.S. identified, funded and developed new revenue opportunities within three months.
Foster Healthcare
Find out how a 35 Fortune U.S. healthcare company maintains a competitive edge and experiences breakthrough successes by harnessing the natural creativity and curiosity of its workforce.
Goodyear
Discover how a world-leading tire manufacturer maintains a competitive edge in today’s intensely competitive and globalized tire industry by solving complex problems and sharing valuable information in a secure manner.
Great West Life
Learn how a multi-line global financial services company successfully eliminated processes that wasted time, energy and money by crowdsourcing 13,000 of its employees.
Verizon Wireless
Find out how the largest telecommunications provider in the U.S. established a cohesive innovation culture to collect insights from different business units, obtain employee feedback on customer experience improvements, and identify gaps in current product offerings and services.
COVID-19 Business Threat Challenge Starters Guide
For Planbox clients, collaborative problem-solving through Online Innovation Labs is the go-to solution.
Online Innovation Lab Guide
Investing in disruption is an essential strategy. That is why online innovation labs are rapidly gaining traction as a highly engaging and valuable social innovation tool. They are widely used by multinational corporations, research facilities and think tanks as a forum for collaborative idea generation and development. Yet there are limited standards, best practices, core features and generally accepted definitions of what an online innovation lab should do and how it should be run.
Innovation Breakdown Structure
The Hierarchical Model to Track Innovation describes the established organizational framework for idea collection, tracking and development, innovation management, and agile experimentation. This model provides an organized representation of all ideas, concepts, suggestions, issues and decisions, which we collectively call Intentions, that are cataloged and tracked in your innovation management system.
How to Develop a Corporate Innovation Idea
Your idea has already been vetted by experts, approved and selected after an initial review as a strong candidate for proof of concept development, building a business case, and further analysis so what’s next?
What is Continuous Improvement Infographic
Continuous Improvement is a framework for organizations to constantly re-examine and improve their products, services and processes.
7 Habits Of Highly Innovative Organizations
This infographic introduces 7 operating principles that describe how organizations can cultivate an alternative mindset for being continuously agile and innovative.
7 Step Process to Challenge Driven Innovation Management
Challenge-Driven Innovation Management (CDI) consists of a set of processes, business rules, workflows, tools and principles that offer a diversity-based crowdsourced innovation framework and methodology to identify specifically targeted…
How to Run a Shark Tank Business Contest
On the TV show “Shark Tank” contestants have a few minutes to sell their big ideas to seasoned investors. The goal is to design a high-pressure online team setting in which only the best ideas and the perfectly delivered pitch by the most capable entrepreneurs….
How to Develop a Corporate Innovation Idea
A detailed analysis of the various stages involved in a corporate idea development workflow….
Planbox Design Thinking Infographic
What is Design Thinking? It is a structured framework for creative problem-solving based on design principles. Why Design Thinking? It is solution focused and action-oriented towards creating a planned outcome…..
The Good Idea Blueprint Infographic
A detailed analysis of the various blueprint sections that make an idea blueprint….
Developing Innovation Process
Developing an Innovation Management Process in 4 Steps: Define your innovation objectives; Select your innovation focus area; Use advanced search and AI to discover actionable information from all public and private data sources you have access to….
Idea Management Voting Methods
A key element of identifying, collaborating on and developing the best ideas is voting. An innovation management platform offers various voting methods for you to choose from. Each method has its own set of use cases, advantages and disadvantages…
Planbox Design Thinking
Planbox Design Thinking platform helps you find killer ideas and extends a unique opportunity to your customers to collaborate creatively with you, share their insights and contribute to your product/service design processes.
Shark Tank
Planbox Shark Tank is a version of the television hit show Shark Tank. A pitch contest designed to be a collaborative internal business competition that helps your organization solve high value business challenges in a team setting.
Run an Idea Contest
We have designed a short (3 to 15 days) turnkey idea contest (also known as an innovation event or jam session) to help your organization identify key problem areas, pinpoint the best business transformation opportunities, and find solutions to tough business challenges.
Planbox Agile Innovation Solution
Explore the agile innovation solution that has helped world-leading organizations realize billions of dollars in top-line growth and efficiency gains, and discover why it takes a platform AND a program to build a successful innovation mangement capability.
Challenge Driven Innovation Management
The Challenge-Driven Innovation Management guide describes a set of processes, business rules, workflows, tools and principles that offer a diversity-based crowdsourced innovation framework and methodology to identify specifically targeted problem areas and opportunities and to develop actionable solutions for them.
How to Gamify Innovation Guide
This detailed actionable step by step innovation gamification guide shows you how to design a winning rewards and recognition system for your innovation program.
Ultimate Innovation Strategist Playbook
Planning, staffing and launching an innovation program can be a daunting task. This innovation strategist playbook provides innovation leaders and teams with the roadmap to plan for a successful initiative that will have a substantial positive impact on the entire organization.
Guide to Communicating Your Innovation Program
The innovation management process and the tools surrounding it have to be continuously promoted. In this guide we describe a set of best practises for launching and communicating your Innovation program.
Forrester Innovation Management Solutions 2016 Research
Forrester conducted vendor briefings and product evaluations and surveyed and interviewed customer references for 15 innovation management solution providers. They were researched, analyzed, and scored against a set of 26 criteria. Download a free copy of this insightful research.
Innovation Management Best Practices
Drivers of innovation performance when people, proven processes and technology are brought together around a shared purpose.
Executive Sponsorship of Innovation
Transforming a company into a strategically innovative entity takes a fundamental cultural shift. The vision and purpose must be owned at the top.
Innovation Management Primer
An organization can only generate and develop innovative ideas if the processes and infrastructure that is in place can effectively nurture and manage innovation activities.
Marketing Your Innovation Management Initiative
Ideas and best practices for marketing an innovation program that will help you generate the best ideas and strongest levels of participation.
Ten Keys to Innovation Management Success
The key questions to ask and explore on your journey to establishing a sustainable innovation management system
