Wazoku Blog

Every season, the business review site G2 releases a report, giving an overview of the leaders across all its various categories. Back in December last year, Wazoku won three of these prestigious awards, recognizing us as an Enterprise Leader, Momentum Leader, and an Overall Leader in the Idea Management category.

From June 2023, you’ll notice some changes to the Wazoku Crowd Challenge Center. We’re introducing Prize Challenges and Scouting Challenges, changing our Challenge Specific Agreements into Challenge Agreements, and making other user journey improvements where you will have the opportunity to solve problems directly in Communities with the potential for access to the Seeker.

The Wazoku Crowd has spent twenty years at the forefront of open innovation. During this time, it’s enjoyed a couple of different homes – including its previous incarnation as InnoCentive – and connected businesses around the world to Solvers for their problems. Today, we announce its new home. Welcome to the future of the Wazoku Crowd!

Wazoku Webinars are returning in May! After a break throughout April, we are restarting our Thursday sessions and this month, we have some exciting discussions planned. Continuing our ‘Industry Innovators’ series that saw us hold conversations with the MoD and Enel back in February, this time we will be discussing how companies in the Professional and Financial Services industry use Wazoku.

Following our nominations in three categories at this year’s BOLD Awards and our inclusion on Great Place to Work’s Best Workplaces for Wellbeing, Wazoku has now been nominated for four more awards! Some of these recognize our organization as a whole, and some are for individual achievements. Read on below to find out more about each of these nominations.

To power our world for today and tomorrow, it’s important to innovate the way we deal with energy. While global pressures and demand cause price rises for consumers and tough questions for operators, we’ve collated the latest from the experts on innovation in energy for 2023.

Innovation never stands still, and neither does our product. In these ‘Product Roadmap’ blogs, we provide updates, insights, and previews into what is coming up with the Wazoku platform. Building on the things discussed in our biannual Product Roadmap Webinars, here we go into depth about both new features and upgrades to existing capabilities.

Connecting Ecosystems to Help Customers Solve Problems and Challenges Faster

Virginia, February 8, 2023 - Ratio Exchange, an emerging leader in the Federal Sourcing Market, is excited to announce that we will significantly expand our sourcing ecosystem through a strategic partnership with Wazoku, the global innovation leader helping their clients in the US Government and global private sector innovate at scale.

“Our mission has, and will always be, integrate sourcing ecosystems that bring our customers the very best companies, capabilities, and talent to help them solve problems and challenges faster”, said Jim Benson, Chief Technology Officer, Ratio Exchange. Wazoku’s Crowd ecosystem of 700,000+ solvers from 195 countries territories and islands have helped DoD, Intel Community, DHS, Energy, EPA, NASA, HHS and many other Agencies/Departments and Contractors find or create solutions for their problems and challenges. “Wazoku will provide our customers with an entirely new sourcing channel to access and engage global talent – especially early in the process of problem definition and in technical areas of need,” said Benson.

“We are excited to partner with Ratio Exchange to continue creating impact and delivering results to the Federal Government” said Jon Fredrickson, Wazoku’s US Government Executive leader. “Ratio Exchange has established a great reputation of delivering ecosystem capabilities to their clients. We intend to combine our unique capabilities with shared clients in the public and private sectors by integrating our ecosystems and platform capabilities,” said Fredrickson.

Ratio Exchange will be working with Wazoku over the next quarter to establish an integrated model that allows customers to access and engage Wazoku’s ecosystem of problem solvers.

For further information about Ratio Exchange, visit https://www.ratio.exchange 
For further information about Wazoku, visit https://www.wazoku.com 

Healthcare is unrecognizable today compared to even 10 years ago. In order to keep up with the latest developments, trends, and patterns in the industry, we’ve detailed the top innovations and expert predictions for Health, Pharma, and Life Sciences in 2023.

International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8th every year, with the aim of celebrating women’s achievements and raising awareness of the barriers faced in daily life. It is a day to reflect on the progress made towards gender equality and to promote positive change for women across the globe.

In this blog, we look at a Challenge that aims to find more effective ways for local governments to use public data to inform decision-making. To register for this Challenge, click here!

Wazoku has officially been announced as one of the UK’s best workplaces in a new list released today. One of the many Great Place to Work Awards handed out throughout the year, this list celebrates the organizations that go the extra mile for employees, recognizing that people are at the heart of every business success.