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Quiet quitting is a phenomenon taking the internet by storm. It’s a trend that is bringing attention to the disillusionment felt by workers across the globe: who don’t feel valued, face burnout, and aren't inspired to go above and beyond. It’s a form of quitting that doesn’t involve an employee outright leaving an organization, but means that they have mentally checked out, putting in no more effort than is absolutely necessary. This is detrimental in many ways but can be particularly damaging to an organization’s day-to-day business and its ability to innovate and drive change. A lot of the time, employees are the everyday innovators that a business relies on to find great ideas.

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

The Center for the Transformation of Work (CTW) community calls bring open talent, freelancers, and organizations in these spheres together to change the world of work. In Thursday 15^th September’s call, Tim Sanders, VP of Client Strategy at Upwork shared highlights and findings from Upwork’s Future Workforce Report 2022: Leveraging Independent Talent as a Key Workforce Strategy.

As with a lot of business projects, the capability of an innovation program is often directly linked to its level of maturity. By ‘maturity’ here, we don’t necessarily mean the length of time that a company has been using an innovation program – although progress in this area does require a certain amount of time to become established.

Climate CoLab’s mission of hosting a worldwide community to create actionable climate change solutions to continue and expand to an even larger online, global community

To reflect the changing world of work and the decentralized nature of modern business, we’re bringing InnoCentive and its Challenge Community into Wazoku’s offering.

In our last blog, we looked at metrics maturity and how companies turn performance reporting into an optimized part of an innovation strategy. A key factor to bear in mind when devising a strategy for any innovation program is the regularity with which these metrics are being reviewed.

Looking across the business world at large, it’s apparent that most organizations aren’t at a stage where innovation reporting is optimized. Innovation metrics maturity often depends on how long an organization has been reporting on innovation activity in the first place.

At the start of any organization’s efforts to innovate more effectively and sustainably, processes need to be put in place that ensure new ideas don’t get ignored or forgotten about before they can be implemented.

On the 15th August, 2022 Wazoku was named the winner of a Silver Stevie® Award in the Company of the Year - Computer Software - Medium-size category in The 19^th Annual International Business Awards®.

Innovation scale-up placed at 22 in the medium-sized business category, cited for its ongoing commitment to fair representation of women in the workplace

Every day I am lucky enough to see organisations tap into the brilliant minds of people inside and outside their networks to solve the world’s most pressing problems. From preventing the spread of malaria, to identifying new and sustainable way to power societies, we witness ideas coming from the most unlikely places, giving us confidence that the collective experience, intelligence, and perseverance of humanity is enough to overcome the most complex challenges.