77 Wazoku Testimonials

“You can’t guarantee a $1m idea every month, but we optimize process and catalyse the cultural change to a more open and innovative mindset.”

“We might never have tackled our customers’ stress points if we hadn’t asked, ‘What don’t you like about working with us.'”

“Waste isn’t waste until we waste it. ICL’s sustainability plans and emphasis on the circular economy led to the focus on using by-products from other industries. The success of the Challenge has aided our goal to use more renewable resources, providing sustainability in ecology, economy, and equity.”

"The solutions we received through InnoCentive far exceeded our expectations in terms of quality, usability and cost. Without InnoCentive, I’m not sure if we would have found this level of quality. In the period of a few months, we received a solution that might have taken years to develop."

"Within the next decade the storage bag will make a major dent in the problem of water availability faced by tens of millions of families around the world. It does so because it is simple, affordable and scalable."

"When I felt how light it was and saw how compact the package was and then filled it with 125 gallons of water, my thirty years in the field told me that we had the makings of a winner."

"I thought this was just really silly that no one in their right mind would come up with a solution for that money and give up their rights to the product."

"As a scientific company, we are experimental by nature and we wanted to experiment with crowdsourcing to see what kind of ideas we could get by going outside our organization and the more traditional avenues of problem solving."

"The Green Chemistry Commerce Council is exceptionally pleased to have partnered with InnoCentive on executing the first Collaborative Innovation Challenge for Safe and Effective Preservatives for Consumer Products. Being a new program, with eighteen companies involved, the Challenge Program faced numerous obstacles. At every step of the way, InnoCentive demonstrated great willingness to be flexible in its approach and invested significant time to ensure project success. InnoCentive staff were professional, adaptable, creative, and always provided clear, effective, and timely communication. The Challenge Program would not have been the successful model it was in driving supply chain collaboration to solve chemistry challenges without InnoCentive’s involvement. We look forward to working with InnoCentive on additional challenges in the future."

"Lion’s Den is about taking an entrepreneurial view of the world. It’s about thinking more openly, about thinking differently and above all, about finding a way forwards. Lion’s Den takes people on a journey from knowing nothing about real business to standing in front of live judges and pitching a business plan with confidence."

"I found an experienced crowdsourcing partner with 3Ps: platform, people and process."

"The winning submission was very thorough. It addresses the Challenge requirements and exceeds them with respect to forecast confidence and random prediction. Questions posed back to the Solver were thoroughly addressed."

"This Challenge allowed the team to continue on with other priorities; they do not have time to stop.”

"All cells of a particular type are not identical. An individual cell may become very different, affecting the health and function of its entire population. Today’s tools provide mostly snapshots of single cells, not the movie of changes over time that we need to understand cell states and transitions from one state to another."

“The winning solutions can have an immediate impact in research labs and will very likely lead to further innovations by these groups and others.”