Data From 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works

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The variables that make for a successful innovation program are independent of whether the company is seeking disruptive or incremental innovations. It doesn’t matter whether they’re asking for process or product innovation, what industry the company is in, or even, for the most part, whether the company is large or small. That’s according to researchers who analyzed five years of data from 154 public companies covering over 3.5 million employees that have used an idea management system called Spigit. After reviewing dozens of variables that could potentially affect ideation, they identified four that drove the ideation rate: the number of participants, the number of ideas, the number of people evaluating the ideas, and the diversity of the participants. More ideas from more different kinds of people made for stronger innovation pipelines.

Innovation Data From 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works by Dylan Minor , Paul Brook and Josh Bernoff October 9, 2017 , Updated October 9, 2017 Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR Post Post Share Save Get PDF Buy Copies Print Summary . The variables that make for a successful innovation program are independent of whether the company is seeking disruptive or incremental innovations. It doesn’t matter whether they’re ... more Leer en español Ler em português Post Post Share Save Get PDF Buy Copies Print Sales and marketing were once disciplines ruled by emotions. But somewhere along the w

Data From 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works

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