http://www.innovationfactory.eu Connected Innovation! Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:35:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Helios Blue release of IdeaNet™, the leading social media tool for connecting ideas to knowledge to people, brings you some amazing new functionality and some significant design and performance improvements. MOBILE VERSION Weʼre all spending less time at our desks, more time out and about and we know ideas tend to strike in ... http://www.innovationfactory.eu/blog/2010/07/23/helios-blue-release-notes-summer-2010/ Business award for best intranet for social network ‘1Power’ of Achmea During the presentation of the first Dutch Interactive Awards (DIA) - business award for Dutch Interactive companies - the innovation platform ‘1Power’ of Innovation Factory was awarded with the prize for best interactive intranet. The Dutch innovation stimulator developed the platform ... http://www.innovationfactory.eu/blog/2010/05/31/innovation-factory-wins-dutch-interactive-award/ 1POWER, the Achmea Innovation Community managed by Innovation Factory has been nominated for the Dutch Interactive Award (DIA) in the category Best Intranet. Commissioned by the Eureko board in 2007, 1POWER has enabled Achmea employees to connect to their colleagues and share knowledge. This has helped establish a more innovative organisation and ... http://www.innovationfactory.eu/blog/2010/05/10/1power-nominated-for-emerce-dutch-interactive-award/ In a recent blog post on the Innovate on Purpose blog, the author Jeffrey Philips borrows a famous quote from Winston Churchill and bends it towards the field of Innovation: "Innovation success is based on going from "failure" to "failure" without a loss of enthusiasm." In a lot of companies ... http://www.innovationfactory.eu/blog/2010/04/27/fail-and-learn-to-innovate/ Internal communities help people within an enterprise solve problems faster and more effectively. A vibrant community, which brings together people from across the organisation will also generate more innovation. A key component of the community is the ability of people to access knowledge already available within the company. Knowledge can ... http://www.innovationfactory.eu/blog/2010/04/14/how-do-you-get-people-to-share-their-knowledge/ This case describes a bottom up innovation initiative at a large Dutch insurance company. The case shows that bottom up innovation in large enterprises through the use of an internal community, results in lower costs and an improvement of the speed and quality of the first 2 stages of the ... http://www.innovationfactory.eu/blog/2010/04/07/roi-of-internal-communities/ TNT Post gaat met behulp van de expertise van Innovation Factory uit Amsterdam voortaan al zijn medewerkers nog actiever betrekken bij de innovatieve ontwikkeling van zijn producten en diensten. Beide partijen hebben onlangs daartoe een samenwerkingscontract ondertekend. Het bedrijf is overtuigd van de kracht van de kennis en ideeën van zijn ... http://www.innovationfactory.eu/blog/2010/04/06/tnt-post-betrekt-medewerkers-op-actieve-wijze-bij-innovatie-ontwikkeling/ Through Springwise I ran into an initiative of Tour d'Afrique Ltd. a Toronto based company named for its flagship cycling tour that annually traverses the African continent from Cairo to Cape Town. They have started to crowdsource cycling tours through an operation they call Dream Tours. The text on their homepage: ... http://www.innovationfactory.eu/blog/2010/03/25/great-example-of-crowdsourcing/ Recently an item regarding Innovation Factory was aired on the Amsterdam television channel AT5. The interview features Han Gerrits, CEO of Innovation Factory, and Sjaak van Heukelum, Innovation Manager at Achmea. They talk about enabling employees to innovate and in particular the successful case of an on-line innovation community at ... http://www.innovationfactory.eu/blog/2010/03/15/innovation-factory-on-tv/ Did you already sign up for the 13th edition of the ‘Praktijkcongres Interne Communicatie’? The biggest Congress on Internal Communications in the Netherlands will be held on April 13th in the Congress center of Amstelveen. The theme of the congress this year: Social Media for Internal Communications: treat or threat? ... http://www.innovationfactory.eu/blog/2010/03/08/social-media-for-internal-communications-treat-or-threat/