Innovation Resources
Wide Ideas Innovation Resources
Here you can find all the latest FREE innovation resources. This includes whitepapers, videos, powerpoints, research reports, case studies, testimonials, as well as key articles all related to maximising the collective intelligence of your workforce for better idea management.
Videos
Introduction to Wide Ideas
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See how Wide Ideas uses the collective intelligence of employees to bring diversity to the innovation process, and as a result spark different perspectives to key business challenges.
HR in Digital Transformation
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Jakob Lindvall (CEO, Wide Ideas) and Henrik Byström (Business lead, Microsoft) talk about their collaboration project. In addition, their chat highlights the importance of HR in digital transformation, as well as the value they bring to the innovation process.
What makes a Great Innovator?
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Åse Angland Lindvall provides her personal insights into the 3 key human characteristics that differentiates an individual as a great innovator from an idea generator. However, do you agree?
Innovation Culture: 3 Key Values
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From diversity for generating ideas and refining them, to empowering employees in the decision making process. Åse Angland Lindvall talks about the 3 key values for building an innovation culture, so organisations can above all remain competitive.
ROI of Employee Engagement
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Åse Angland Lindvall explains why she most certainly disagrees with Robert Bacal’s article – “The Employee Engagement Fiasco: Why It Hasn’t Worked, Why It Can’t Work, And The Costs“.
Chief Culture Officer
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Should corporate and innovation culture be shared amongst all executives or rather assigned to an individual? Åse Angland Lindvall explains why a Chief Culture Officer is a critical role for any company.
Will AI Replace Human Decision-Making?
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Jakob Lindvall, has been using artificial intelligence in his Idea Management Software for over 5 years. As a result, he has an interesting perspective on whether AI will ultimately replace human decision-making.
Team Collaboration
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Åse Angland Lindvall talks about the importance of team collaboration and innovation from the mountain top in Åre. Even assistant ‘chief of course’ at the World Ski Championships 2019 cannot stop Åse thinking about innovation.
Innovation Leadership in a Digital World
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Innovation in a digital world is very different to the days of brainstorming on whiteboards and sticky notes. Jakob Lindvall hence explains the importance of how leaders need to embrace this new approach.
Tedx: Artificial Intelligence is making us collectively creative
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Listen to Jakob Lindvall talk passionately about how he and his team are exploring the intersection between human creativity, technology and AI. Above all, understand how this research can help accelerate the innovation decision-making process.
Presentations & Documents
Why Every Business Needs Idea Management Software
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5 key reasons why every organisation (large or small) needs idea management software to engage their workforce. Useful presentation if you need to convince your company about the value of innovation.
About Wide Ideas
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Wide Ideas is a successful start-up company based out of Sweden. This document provides an overview of their Idea Management Software, the back story of Jakob and Åse Angland Lindvall, and above all what continues to motivate them.
Wide Ideas Flyer
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This one page document advertises the key selling points about Wide Ideas Idea Management Software. It also highlights the integration points with Microsoft Office 365.
10 Innovation Lessons for Success
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Delivering a successful company-wide innovation program in any large organisation is challenging. Hence, these key lessons based on 15 years of experience delivering innovation into a Fortune 100 company are an essential innovation resource.
Case Studies & Testimonials
Vattenfall
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Vattenfall is a leading European energy company saving $millions of dollars every year due to the collective intelligence of their employees using Wide Ideas Idea Management Software.
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TESTIMONIAL
We chose Wide Ideas to enable the employee centric knowledge sharing and ideation across the organisation. As a result, the tool greatly enhances the employee experience by making it easy to collaborate, communicate and connect with others.
TESTIMONIAL
With Wide Ideas we now have an outlet for our creativity.
It is good for our customers and it is good for Vattenfall, and therefore gains more motivated employees and perhaps ultimately makes some money.
Research Reports
Innovation Matters Report (2017)
RESEARCH REPORT
Innovation analysis from PA Consulting revealing insights from over 800 senior executives. This report summarises what organisations are doing right, as well as offering pragmatic and actionable insights for innovation success.
Innovation Benchmark Report (2017)
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A global benchmark study of over 1,200 companies. As a result, executives told PWC their businesses are collaborating with a broader set of stakeholders to reap greater rewards from their innovation efforts.
Recommended Reading
Using Machine Language to Predict Football Matches
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Ola Lidmark Eriksson took on a long term experiment to see if it is possible to apply AI, using Machine Learning techniques, to predict the outcome of football matches. Read the results of his 2 year experiment.