As a decorated corporate soldier, one of my responsibilities was to encourage the troops to participate in the annual staff engagement survey, naively hopeful that the outcomes would culminate in a unified call to action by the leadership team.

Globally...

This month we bring you a brand new feature that we think will be a powerful addition to the way you present and manage challenges. Challenge Groups (or "themes") is a new way to think about your challenge structure and how it relates to the "topography...

We're constantly tweaking the HunchBuzz user experience and probably you don't even notice the small incremental changes (except maybe subconsciously thinking "HunchBuzz is so easy to use!"). We've been working on some important design elements over...

Challenges are at the heart of HunchBuzz. Challenges are the way you guide the discussion with compelling questions to get people engaged and thinking. They can take many forms - seeking ideas, feedback, cross-collaboration, awareness raising...

Concocting, imagining, inventing, constructing and designing are all part of the innovation journey. Clearly there is not one way to the path of effective innovation, but there are tools and methods that have been proven to drive significant value...

The future is full of exciting and disruptive possibilities. Generally speaking, traditional leaders are aware of the myriad of drivers that pose risks to their existing business model and opportunities to change. However, many of them are predisposed...

In New Zealand we celebrate Labour Day today, a national holiday since 1899. An immigrant carpenter, Samuel Parnell,championed limiting the work day to an eight hour working day, which probably made sense over 100 years ago, due to the back-breaking...

I was recently asked what I thought the five key ingredients were to setting up an innovation/idea driven organization. My response to the question was rhetorical, “How engaged is your staff?” According to The Gallop Poll (an international research...

This month it's all about making admin's lives easier and your communities more productive. Here's a bunch of new features and improvements to help you drive innovation and get the best from HunchBuzz. This month: a better activity stream, improved...