Eight or so years ago we had an idea. An idea that software you use in your workday could be as enjoyable to use as that which you choose to use in your personal life, on your phone. Most importantly, an idea that a small group of talented people…

Innovation is powered by great conversation. New ideas introduce what’s possible, but it’s the discussions around them that help ideas materialize into tangible projects and plans. Recently, we introduced comment liking, an easy way to give someone a…

With the latest release of Kindling, Administrators can create Smart Groups based on a list of email addresses, ensuring that new participants have immediate access to specific Categories and Campaigns the first time they log in. As more participants…

Not every idea can be the best idea. When ideas (and idea-havers) go head-to-head, we usually anticipate one of two consequences. There will be collaboration, or there will be conflict. These are two divergent events, but their outcomes can be…

When an organization decides to invest resources, time, and energy in an innovation program, management is making a calculated bet about their teams' ability to identify and solve problems to grow the business—but there's not always a concrete…

Most discussions about “innovation,” including those here on our blog, focus on one of three kinds of innovation: the abstract notion of creativity-driven progress and improvement, the specific activity by an individual of introducing that progress…

Let’s not kid ourselves: being the project manager of an idea management process is a tough job and one that requires time, passion, consistency, and dedication. At the same time, for most project managers, idea management is probably not their full…

A major challenge I regularly face in marketing Kindling is explaining the seemingly simple concept of "ideas" as they feature in idea management. When we say "ideas," we don't just mean major new product concepts or earth-shaking strategy…

There’s a lot of emphasis in the idea management world on being creative—see Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business 2015, for example—but it’s not always obvious that being creative is only step one. Innovation requires creativity, but…