Join an online community of Innovation Program Management (IPM) leaders across industries where you can share stories and get your questions answered.

Innovation Program Management is a methodology for getting the best ideas out of your employees. Employees are the source of innovative ideas, while business leaders focus ideation around key business goals. Innovation Program Management is a great way to get started with corporate innovation, because it can help you achieve impact quickly, with minimal up-front investment. Some common types of innovation programs are hackathons, problem solving challenges, and pitch competitions.

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#general

Welcome to Synthesize Chat! Synthesize is the premier community for corporate innovators. We are an international group of professionals focused on sharing best practices in the emerging discipline of Innovation Management.
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#introduce-yourself

Introduce yourself!
Welcome to Synthesize Chat! The purpose of this channel is to tell us a little about yourself. Please share your name, role, company, and what you hope to get out of being in this community! :slightly_smiling_face:
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#hiring

Share IPM hiring opportunities (both open job positions and information about yourself if you're looking to be hired)!
This is a place where you can share active job openings and information about yourself if you are seeking a new opportunity in Innovation Management.
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#employee-engagement

Ask questions, share ideas, and collaborate around engaging employees in your innovation activities.
This is a place where you can ask questions, share ideas, and collaborate specifically around engaging employees in your innovation activities.
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#responding-to-covid-19

A place to share tips on how you are updating your role and leveraging crowdsourcing meet the challenges brought on by the global pandemic.
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#brightidea-ceo-ama

I am setting up this area as an experiment to have a more direct channel to connect with our customers and partners. Feel free to 'ask me anything'.
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#technicaltips

A place for Brightidea clients to share API/reporting strategies, CSS, rules engine automation, and any other technical tips to customize the platform.
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#random

Non-work banter and water cooler conversation
A place for non-work-related flimflam, faffing, hodge-podge or jibber-jabber you'd prefer to keep out of more focused work-related channels.
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#hackathon

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#running-challenges

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