London, United Kingdom. 30th June 2023 – Innovation scale-up Wazoku has announced a full integration with collaboration platform Microsoft Teams, allowing users to access Wazoku from anywhere within Teams. This is the latest upgrade to Wazoku’s product that gives employees a true voice and is designed to put the tools for idea management front and center to their work, every day ..read more

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 ..read more

14 June 2023 – The International Rescue Committee (IRC), a global humanitarian organization that helps people affected by conflict and disaster, has launched a new Challenge to capture new ideas to increase comfort and safety in women’s toilets in refugee camps. To learn more about the IRC’s mission and about the Challenges, visit the IRC Showcase on the new Wazoku Crowd website ..read more

In the battlefields, skies, and defense apparatus of the future, improvements to technology will pose unique opportunities and areas for development. In this blog, we’ll take you through critical advancements in ‘cyber’ (computing, IT, and large elements of digital technology) that will improve the future of the Defense and Aerospace industries ..read more

1st June 2023 – The International Rescue Committee (IRC), a global humanitarian organization that helps people affected by conflict and disaster, will soon launch two crowdsourcing campaigns to increase comfort and safety in women’s toilets in refugee camps and last-mile medicine delivery in Sierra Leone. These open innovation Challenges are the first of a series planned for the coming years ..read more

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 ..read more

No one can deny the importance of developing a strong business strategy, but what about an innovation strategy? Arguably where you spend time and money is strategy, but investing in innovation programs alone does not guarantee success. Embedding the best innovation practices in your business is unlikely to produce value without an overarching and carefully-reviewed plan. In this blog, we look at what innovation strategies are, the different types of innovation strategies, and why they are so critical for successful innovation programs and healthy and sustainable businesses ..read more

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 ..read more

Quantum computing – once thought of as something that is purely theoretical – is quickly becoming a reality, transforming industries across the board. The Financial Services (FS) industry, underpinned by a reliance on data-driven decision making, stands to benefit greatly from this ‘quantum leap’ in technology ..read more

Changing the world, one idea at a time has to start somewhere. Even the organizations that regularly bring about revolutionary change had a first step to take on their journey. In the Innovation Basics series, we focus exclusively on what that first step could look like for newcomers to the innovation world. Follow this guidance to achieve faster, better innovation ..read more