The source of innovation is not an individual genius, but rather the collective intelligence of people with different expertise and different points of view, engaging in collaborative problem solving.

Innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives, it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

How to Facilitate Innovation

In today’s highly competitive and fast-moving economy, organizations must be in a continuous state of innovation to develop new and useful products, services, processes, and ways of organizing.

If you want to support this process, and build an organization that continuously innovates, you must unlearn your conventional notions of leadership.

Share ideas without judgement

Unlike your company vision, which is carefully crafted by the leadership, innovation can originate from anywhere in the organization.

Creating a culture where a junior employee’s fresh observation is given the same consideration as a seasoned executive’s ideas can be challenging.

Encourage different perspectives

In day-to-day enterprise collaboration, different views are often played down to unify the team and move together in the same direction.

In innovation, the creative interaction between two, or more, different perspectives is what produces new solutions.

Harvest collective intelligence

While you normally don’t involve all employees in business processes, innovation processes can benefit greatly from tapping into their combined experience and expertise.

The more knowledge you can harvest, the better you can test and build the company’s innovation portfolio.

Innovation Meetings with MeetingSift

For the best ideas, and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, and debate. MeetingSift helps you better facilitate such interaction by providing easy to use group activities for brainstorming, prioritizing, evaluating, and making decisions.

Use MeetingSift to create environments where out-of-the-box ideas can be shared without judgement. Where different perspectives are visualized side-by-side. And where the group’s collective intelligence can be harvested effectively and efficiently.

Safely share ideas anonymously

MeetingSift Brainstorm Activity supports anonymous idea sharing, putting the focus on the idea rather than the person behind it. This let’s the group consider each idea on it’s own merits.

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

Visualize everyone’s opinions

MeetingSift visualizes participants’ ideas, feedback, and opinions in real-time. Feeding this valuable information back into the discussion not only enriches it, but saves time.

Instead of a room full of “yes-men”, you get to tap into the group’s true thoughts and ideas.

Gather input from any size group

MeetingSift lets you easily and efficiently gather ideas, feedback, opinions, and evaluations from groups of any sizes.

The collective intelligence of the group is visualized in real-time, enhancing the discussion and the collaborative process.

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