What's your idea? A case study of a grassroots innovation pipeline within a large software company

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 2065-2074

  Bailey, Brian P ^a,b   Horvitz, Eric ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

creativity; idea management; innovation; organizations

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROBLEMS; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; KEY ELEMENTS; LARGE ORGANIZATIONS; MANAGEMENT INNOVATION; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; SENIOR MANAGERS; SOFTWARE COMPANY;

DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

PIPELINES;

EID: 77953986432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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