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Creativity Builds Success

If your Corporate organization or Economic Development agency is like most others, many creative ideas can come from your employees, vendors, and partnerships. In a College or University these may come from faculty, administrators, students, alumni, and stakeholder partners. In all cases, a Village Insights digital enables this.

Wondering what exactly is an “innovation community?" An innovation community is a community within the workplace where ideas can be freely exchanged. It creates a productive discussion between management and employees. This discourse leads to a sharing of knowledge, resources, and a speedier delivery of innovations across the organization.

This The Wall Street Journal article ( https://lnkd.in/gu9qmPMM ) notes, an innovation community can give new shape and purpose to the knowledge your team already has.

However, many organizations aren’t tapping into the ideas that are readily available from their teams or communities to the full extent. They aren’t creating an openness where ideas can flow. Inc. Magazine says “Unfortunately, most companies fail to unleash their most valuable resources: human creativity, imagination, and original thinking. They lack a systematic approach to building a culture of innovation, and then wonder why they keep getting beaten to the punch.”

So don’t keep getting beaten to the punch by your competitors. Have your organization win by “harnessing the creative energies and the insights of your employees across functions and ranks” as noted in the Wall Street Journal article linked above.

Benefits of an Innovation Community:

Reduce Risk. An innovation community is an easy and inexpensive way to tackle too big or risky projects by individual operating units. You’re using your greatest resources in the workplace to further your company.

Inspire Trust. Listening to your teams and partners ideas shows your that you trust them. This trust will inspire them to share more ideas.

Create Open Communication. Innovation communities center around open communication. This encourages ideas that build on ideas of others. Open communication also helps improve your organization’s overall culture.

Promote Learning. Innovation communities bring people together to share their ideas. The discussions and problem-solving that occur can lead to superior organization-wide learning.

Interested in learning more? Let’s set up a demonstration for you to experience Village Insights and see why it’s "Where Innovation Lives."
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Who Has Innovative Ideas? Employees. Some companies are harnessing employee imaginations to create cross-organizational innovation. They do so at low cost, using a practice called innovation communities. JC Spender and Bruce Strong share with The Wall Street Journal their observations about successful innovation communities.

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Much has been said and shared over the last couple of years about the benefits of around the world.

These physical places are abuzz with activity as they regularly host educational programs, informational & relational events, and provide access & introductions to available resources for startup teams as well as mentors, investors, and other important stakeholders.

Village Insights assists the activities happening within Innovation Hubs and their communities as a focused digital extension - Where educational programs may be administered & enjoyed, where physical “collisions” can be captured & dialogue can lead to outcomes, and where ideators, PMs, and others may form Villages to promote the sharing of ideas, information, efforts, and results with investors and other valuable partners.

In the innovation space, it’s clear that “It takes a Village” to conceive of, grow, and connect Solutions to the people, businesses, and institutions they assist.

It’s why our team is here… it’s what we do every day. We streamline the administration of the Hubs in order to boost the connectivity, activities, and success of innovators.

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Village Insights Discover a community management platform that helps universities and startup development organizations (accelerators, incubators, co-working operators, startup ecosystem advocate) manage and connect their networks to achieve their objectives.​

Are you an Innovation Hub community manager? If yes, Village Insights is built specifically for you!

Our unique platform is filled with tools that save you time and help you avoid the headaches associated with managing your multi-focused community of innovators.

We’d love for you to take a closer look at how we may be of service, and to hear from you ([email protected])!

https://villageinsights.com

Village Insights Discover a community management platform that helps universities and startup development organizations (accelerators, incubators, co-working operators, startup ecosystem advocate) manage and connect their networks to achieve their objectives.​

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