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As we continue to battle the pandemic, are you adjusted to remote work? If you haven't, we suggest that you look into remote collaboration tools because business agility is more important now than before. Check out this article as it contains a lot of helpful information that we think you will find value in. https://vz.to/3kKGjdX If you want to learn how Verizon is engaging employees with Brightidea feel free to comment below.

Friendly reminder: Impact Innovation is hosting a webinar on October 22nd at 1 pm AEST! They will talk about "How to keep your innovation budget in uncertain times." This is a very important topic because some companies are cutting their innovation budget, but Impact Innovation wants to show you what you can do to potentially save your innovation budget. Make sure you sign up because you do not want to miss it! It is free so register today! https://bit.ly/31rTys5 #APAC

Mark your calendar for October 22nd at 1 pm AEST! Our amazing #APAC partner, Impact Innovation is hosting a webinar about "How to Keep Your Innovation Budget in Uncertain Times." There will be a lot of great information that will be shared and you do not want to miss it. Register today! https://bit.ly/352wMYZ P.s If you are in the US and you would like to join, the webinar will happen on the 21st of October at 8 pm PST.

We are excited to have BTS Design Innovation as a partner of ours, and it is a privilege to have our idea management software to be part of their #innovation process. Keep up the amazing work and may the best idea win! https://bit.ly/315Dv33

We love it when our partner shares their experience and thoughts on how they built and embedded a culture of #innovation in their organization. If you work at a bank or a company and you want to bring an innovation culture to your organization, we encourage you to watch this interview where the CEO, Bruce Van Saun, and Vice President of Innovation, RJ Sherman at Citizens Bank discuss how they did it. https://bit.ly/33KEBTO Thank you for sharing this insightful interview with us all! Keep up the great work!

With the pandemic and everything happening around the world right now, it is exciting to see the International Monetary Fund leveraging Brightidea to run an anti-corruption #innovation challenge to find the best ideas to make the world a better place. If you have some time on October 7th at 10:15 EDT, we encourage you to check out the top 8 finalist teams that will be doing a live virtual pitch. Good luck to the 8 teams! We can't wait to hear all your ideas! ... To watch the live pitch event and to learn more about the 8 finalist teams, go to this link https://bit.ly/3d2VAn8

Congratulations to the NEXT Coalition on choosing your first five pilot projects for the ‘Construction Safety Challenge!’ Great job on getting selected as the five pilot projects GoContractor, Kwant.ai, Smartvid.io, Opal, and Versatile. We look forward to hearing all the great innovative things you all will be doing. Keep up the great work, Black & Veatch, DPR construction, Haskell, and McCarthy Building Company!... Find out more about the five pilot projects: https://bit.ly/2HHpjq4

Did you know that using the wrong metrics can actually kill your company's #innovation? We saw this article, and we think it is very helpful for companies that want to start their innovation process. Learn more about the right innovation metrics that will make your innovation process successful and avoid any traps that might pop up. https://bit.ly/2ZJGCwL via Built In

With people continuing to work remotely, it can be challenging at times for companies to build and harness their culture. We came across an article that provided a lot of good tips on how to continue the effort of harnessing a company's culture during this pandemic. It is great to see that #innovation is one of the six ways to harness culture. Learn why innovation plays an important role, and find out what the other five ways to harness culture are from this article. https://bit.ly/3ckQ7YJ via Forbes

One of the things that we learn from this pandemic is that companies should innovate with urgency, and they should continue after the pandemic. It is also very beneficial for companies to innovate if they plan to stay in business long term. We came across a great article where Ron Ashkenas, coauthor of the Harvard Business Review Leader’s Handbook and a Partner Emeritus at Schaffer Consulting provided his readers with three ways to instill a greater sense of urgency in #innovation. We find these three tips to be very helpful, and we think you will too. https://bit.ly/3mvM7sK via Harvard Business Review

Are you interested in learning how to minimize the risk of corporate-startup #innovation? If you are interested, take a look at this article where you will learn from companies such as Volvo Cars, Samsung, and BNP Paribas to make corporate innovation efforts less risky, faster, and more cost-effective. https://bit.ly/33JV2hY via Sifted

We know innovation is not easy and you will be surprised to hear that a lot of successful companies that try to innovate fail too. We came across this article where Steve Andriole shares his insights on why companies continue to fail when they want to innovate. Check out this article to learn the secret to innovating successfully. https://bit.ly/2ZqGpys via Forbes

Having trouble with innovation at your organization? Need more guidance? If that is the case, we want you to check out this excellent article written by Jennifer Hiley at Infosys Consulting to learn how to be successful in achieving innovation in 6 key steps. Believe it or not, crowdsourcing is one of the key steps that is mentioned in the article to achieving #innovation excellence in your organization. https://bit.ly/32fkJHr

We know great companies invest a lot of money in #innovation during the downturn in the hope to come out stronger. Investing is important, but it is not enough. It is crucial for companies to adapt their business models, strategy, and company structure in order to survive the pandemic. Learn how some of the most interesting and innovative pivots and adaptations that companies have made in this article. https://bit.ly/2GxyLM7 via MediaPost