Wazoku Blog

G2 Summer Report: Wazoku confirmed as Idea Management Leader!

International Rescue Committee Challenge – making refugee camp toilets safer for women and girls

What effect will Cyber have on the Defense and Aerospace industries?

International Rescue Committee launches campaigns with Wazoku and SeaFreight Labs

What are Prize Challenges and Scouting Challenges?

Why an innovation strategy is essential for modern business

Announcing the brand new Wazoku Crowd website!

What effect will Quantum have on the Financial Services industry?

Innovation Basics: 6 Roles and Responsibilities of an Innovation Program

Fostering a Culture of Innovation: The Key to Employee Happiness

Sport and Innovation: Formula 1 and the path to a green future

What effect will AI have on the future of the Energy industry?

Innovation Basics: 5 Pillars of Success of a Crowdsourced Ideas Scheme

Progress in Robotics and what that means for Innovation in Healthcare

Innovation Basics: 5 key benefits of Crowdsourcing in Innovation

Wazoku announces new series of webinars!

What the UK Government's AI Approach means for the future of Innovation

Wazoku has been nominated for four more awards!

Innovation Basics: 5 key benefits of using an Idea Management Platform

Innovation Basics: 5 key reasons for innovating with your suppliers

What the Experts Are Saying about Innovation in Energy in 2023

Product Roadmap: A Vision for the future of Scouting

Innovation Basics: 4 reasons for improving processes and how to start

The Goldilocks Effect: How to get innovation Challenge design ‘just right’

Ratio Exchange Establishes Strategic Partnership with Wazoku to Expand Sourcing Ecosystem

Innovation Basics: 3 key reasons for improving customer experience

What the Experts Are Saying about Innovation in Health in 2023

Innovation Basics: 3 Product Development issues and how to solve them

International Women’s Day: A Wazoku Interview

What the Experts Are Saying about Innovation in Financial Services in 2023

Innovation Basics: 3 Key Benefits of Co-Creation

4 Key Ways that Open Innovation Delivers Lasting Impact

Wazoku launches open data Challenge to global crowd

Product Roadmap – February 2023

Wazoku is one of the UK's Best Workplaces™ for Wellbeing!

What the Experts are saying about Innovation in Defense for 2023

Innovation Basics: How to address 5 Sustainability pressures

World Cancer Day: Crowdsourcing is leading the fight for a cure

Wazoku’s Advanced Analytics: the latest in innovation analytics!

Inclusive Innovation: Change that works for Everyone

Wazoku to Platinum Sponsor Oil & Gas Automation and Technology Week!

Wazoku nominated in three categories at BOLD Awards!

Solver Stories: From Hardship to Heroics

Wazoku to lead Decarbonization Roundtable!

Innovation scale-up Wazoku agrees acquisition of UK idea management platform, Idea Drop

Wazoku launches new Employee Insights Product: Mindpool SME

A Calculated Risk: How Innovation in Insurance can build the future

ChatGPT: Friend or Foe of Innovation and Creativity?

Generating Ideas of the Future: An Essential for the Energy Revolution

Solver Stories: Creating a Cure for the Incurable

Happy New Year: What to look forward to in 2023!

A Game-Changing Year: Goodbye to 2022!

The Race for Reinvention: Employee Engagement Through a Recession

G2 Report: Wazoku confirmed as a leader for Idea Management in 2023!

Wazoku Wins: All the Awards from 2022!

Solver Stories: The Teen that unlocked a new Future in Education

Four Types of Innovator and How to Optimize Them

Foundations are Fundamental: The Failure of Responsible Innovation

Connecting in Copenhagen: Reflections on Innovation Roundtable

Solver Stories: A Solution to Hundreds of Millions of Malaria Infections

The Best Innovations of 2022

Powered by Inspiration: Reflections on the IdeasUK Conference

Routledge to publish long awaited handbook of collective intelligence

Wazoku launches ground-breaking Challenge to global crowd

All Eyes on Austin: Reflections on the Innov8rs event

Open for Business: Breaking Down Open Innovation Biases

Wazoku is attending Innovation Roundtable, Copenhagen!

The Road Ahead: Spends and Trends in Innovation 2022

COP27: A chance for Innovation to save the planet

Wazoku Helps Freelancers Change The World For The Better

Innovation in the sun: Reflections on this year’s North Star Dubai

Wazoku is attending Innov8rs, Austin!

Bet Your Bottom Dollar: Innovation in Financial Services

Wazoku to visit Transforme, our Latin American Platinum Partner

Balancing the Scales: Innovation in the Legal Sphere

Wazoku announced as a TrustRadius 2022 Tech Cares award winner

The Key to Navigating a Recession is Innovation: Part Three

Gartner Digital says "Software Adoption Is Here To Stay"

The Key to Navigating a Recession is Innovation: Part Two

Product Roadmap: October 2022

Wazoku earns landmark B Corp™ Certification

Wazoku is attending North Star Dubai!

The Key to Navigating a Recession is Innovation: Part One

'Quiet Quitting' and how a culture of innovation is the solution

Wazoku raises £8.5M Series B funding from Octopus Ventures and acquires collective intelligence start-up, Mindpool

Future Workforce: an always-on open talent capability is within reach

Innovation Insights: Program Maturity

MIT's Climate CoLab migrates to the Wazoku Crowd

Modern business is global - and so are we

Innovation Insights: Getting Reporting Frequency Right

Innovation Insights: Metrics Maturity

Innovation Insights: Activity Metrics vs Impact Metrics

Wazoku Wins Silver STEVIE® Award In 2022 International Business Awards®

How We Empower Women at Wazoku

Wazoku named as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Women

Wazoku – a Multiple Award Winner, Changing the World One Idea at a Time

Why Innovation Events ruin your Innovation Process

Wazoku Earns Trusted Platform Accreditation from the Center for the Transformation of Work

Solver Stories: Open Innovation brings clean, safe water to 750m+ people worldwide

Solver Stories: How Open Innovation delivered sustainability to a global industry

Wazoku Secures $2M in Growth Financing from SaaS Capital

Solver Stories: Saving millions of lives through disinfecting water

Wazoku and Jisc partner to harness the collective brainpower of two million students

Wazoku partners with the University of Bristol to capture student ideas that address some of the world’s greatest problems

Solver Stories: Protecting hundreds of millions of people by retrofitting foundations

Solver Stories: How Three Sanitation Solutions Can Help Billions of People

Wazoku named as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Wellbeing

Tips for Sustainability Challenges

Product Roadmap - February 2022

Wazoku cited in Gartner Market Guide for Innovation Management Tools

Wazoku chosen as a 2021 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Winner

Wazoku integrates with Microsoft Teams to enhance enterprise innovation

Wazoku continues global expansion after strengthening Latin American presence

Wazoku named a 2021 UK’s Best Workplace™ in Tech

Wazoku cited in Gartner Hype Cycle for Innovation Management Techniques, 2021

Wazoku contributes to '60 Leaders on Innovation' book

Continuing Wazoku’s sustainability journey – net zero by 2030

Wazoku named a leader in SPARK Matrix™: Innovation Management, 2021

Wazoku partners with Stephen Shapiro to help clients use sustainable and scalable innovation to solve complex business challenges

Wazoku appoints Martin Fincham as Chairman

Wazoku expands senior team with appointments of Ian Smyth and Davy Nys

Wazoku recognised as one of the 2021 UK’s Best Workplaces™

Solver Stories: Nikolay Barashkov

Solver Stories: Doug Corrigan

Solver Stories: Dmitry Tipikin

Solver Stories: Ed Melcarek

Solver Stories: Yury Bodrov

Solver Stories: Deepak Aghor

Solver Stories: Sanchita Tewari

Solver Stories: John Davis

Solver Stories: Hannah Safford

Solver Stories: Madhavi Muranjan

Solver Stories: Michael Kardauskas

Solver Stories: Seward Rutkove

Solver Stories: Ted Ground

Debiopharm launches wide-scale InnoCentive Challenge to develop a single-dose mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine

UK local authorities join innovation programme that aims to save one billion pounds by 2022

Public sector innovation recognised at the Smarter Working Live awards

Wazoku partners with Schumpit to drive innovation in Spain, Catalonia and Portugal

InnoCentive partners with Habitat for Humanity

Wazoku brings innovation services to Latin America via new partnership with Transforme

Our Journey to Wazoku becoming Carbon Neutral

Autumn 2020 Product Release

Wazoku extends its enterprise innovation offering with Jira integration

Wazoku acquires US open innovation leader InnoCentive

The Forrester Wave™: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1 2020

Driving employee engagement with idea management

Wazoku Announces Spring 2020 Product Release

Simon Hill shortlisted for 2020 Tech Leader of the Year Award

Keep Calm and Create

Solving challenges and leading through change

Using Every Mind from Every Generation to Defeat the Coronavirus

Why you need to co-create to get ahead

How to thrive in the age of disruption

10 steps you can take to prepare for the future of work

Why collaboration is crucial for the future of work

Wazoku partners with InnoCentive

InnoCentive partners with Wazoku to create the world’s most powerful innovation platform and community

A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

West Midlands Academic Health Science Network Turns to Wazoku

Bournemouth University launches SPEED

Agile organisation, Culture & Leadership for Innovation

Wazoku Announces Autumn 2019 Product Release

Do you have to be a start-up to be a disruptor?

Building a high-growth scale up

The boss doesn’t always know best!

Continuous Improvement: To employees and beyond!

How Businesses Use Crowdsourcing to Disrupt and Avoid Disruption

How the U.S. Government is Conquering Open Innovation

Budgets Don’t Cripple Innovation, Poor Investing Does

Wazoku raises £2.5M

Myths Surrounding Open Innovation – What is the Truth?

How Open Innovation is Helping to Fight Climate Change

Enel and InnoCentive are Seeking Clean and Affordable Energy Solutions Through SDG #7

How to Create a Comprehensive Open Innovation Strategy

The Top Reasons Why Innovation Fails

Together with Wazoku

How we cultivate sustainability and help our customers do the same

The Architecture of Innovation

Habits of the Most Innovative People

6 Takeaways from the 2018 Global Innovation Index Report

What We Can Learn From Accidental R&D Discoveries

Wazoku Announces Winter 2019 Product Release

Wazoku are proud to join Upscale 4.0

From Global to Local: Aligning SDGs with your Business Goals

Enel and InnoCentive Aid in UN SDG # 9: Focusing on resilient Infrastructure, Sustainable Industrialization and Innovation

Stop Trying to Innovate in an Echo Chamber

Award-Winning Innovation in Scandinavia, Powered by Wazoku

Enel and InnoCentive Join Forces Through Open Innovation on Path to Achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Open Innovation vs Crowdsourcing vs Co-creation

Open Innovation Pioneer InnoCentive Celebrates 15 Years

NASA Partners with InnoCentive to Crowdsource Innovation Initiatives

InnoCentive Announces Debut of InnoCentive Idea Management

InnoCentive and Nosco Form Partnership

All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development Launches $100,000 Prize Competition for Book-Writing Software

InnoCentive and Dow Chemical Launch Innovation Challenge to Drive Application for Oil-Soluble Polyalkylene Glycol Chemistry

$1 Million Prize Awarded for New Algorithm for Rapid Characterization of Pathogens

InnoCentive and Lumina Foundation Announce Winner of First Innovation Challenge

InnoCentive Solver Network Passes 300,000 Registered Members Milestone

InnoCentive Announces Launch of Water Sensor Challenge