Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “innovation”
For 6 months in 2019, Wazoku was fortunate enough to be one of a cohort of 30 companies on the awesome Upscale programme, run by Technation UK. Having recently graduated from this programme I wanted to share some of my key learnings from it. The reassurance of 30 businesses all in a similar stage of scale up It might sound …
Last month The Prince’s Trust celebrated their first internal Innovation Awards. Colleagues submitted just under 100 nominations recognising one another for the amazing ideas they had collaborated on and developed since July 2018. Bringing innovation to the forefront The Princes Trust, a UK charity whose aim is to help disadvantaged young people get their lives on track, has undergone a …
Every change starts with an idea. At its inception, most of these changes are (or may seem) quite small changes. Did you know that Google started off as an academic experiment by two PhD students to understand how web pages link to each other? From little ideas great oak trees can grow!
Tracking and measuring results – any innovation programme, whether bottom-up or otherwise, needs to be tracked and measured effectively. An organisation should put in place targets, totals and outputs, so it can understand the metrics and make refinements and enhancements to the innovation programme where necessary. An idea management platform can make reporting on innovation simple. Smart software can track …
New platform looks to build on previous innovation successes by increasing staff engagement and the volume of ideas UK Central Government department, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has selected Wazoku’s idea management platform, Idea Spotlight, to drive digital innovation and idea management across its entire network: The Royal Navy, British Army, the Royal Air Force, Joint Forces Command and Defence …
Every successfully implemented idea/product is a result of a long and painstakingly supervised innovation process. While principles and methods of idea development are universal for all industries, there is no strict rule regarding the steps from idea generation to implementation. Here is a list of 10 steps that follow the idea management process from idea generation to implementation. 1. Idea …
What would you do if you suddenly found out that you will live 30 years longer? Would you get excited and start planning activities or would you feel disheartened because of all the issues that age and elderly life are associated with? The growing population is one of the grand challenges of the 21st Century. Combined with the growth of cities, …
A blog based on the ‘School of innovation’ webinar co-hosted by ideasUK and Wazoku When leadership says ‘Go, innovate!’ everyone panics thinking ‘Where do I even start?’. Here are a few tips from ideasUK and Wazoku, who both take a mentoring approach to innovation and recently shared a few best practices of working with their customers and members. Peer support …
SSCL, a joint venture between the Cabinet Office and Sopra Steria, aims to deliver £1 billion of savings to the government by 2020. By bringing together the best methods of driving change, it delivers many services from finance & accounting to recruitment.
The Challenge Fidelity International (Fidelity), one of the UK’s largest investment fund managers, initially started collaborative innovation with Step Change, an IT department run innovation programme, managed through SharePoint. It was a great first step, however, SharePoint was unable to scale the initiative, provide the flexibility required or progress, track and move ideas and data the way Fidelity needed. Fidelity …
