77 Wazoku Testimonials

"The success of our Partner Ideas scheme goes to show that sometimes the truly great innovations can be as simple as making small changes to the tasks you do every day, rather than the big ideas which transform everything. By engaging our Partners with the right platform and process, we’ve managed to achieve significant productivity and financial savings. We’re excited to see what we can achieve when we role the scheme out to the entire Waitrose network."

“We’re trying to change the mindset of the construction sector to think more sustainably. At Enemærke & Petersen we focus on creating immediate results – the Wazoku platform helped us generate new ideas quickly from a large network and we will use these results to fuel the necessary large scale sustainable change.”

“We’re changing the face of environmentally friendly growing by reducing carbon emissions caused by using peat. The 5 exciting solutions from this Challenge have drastically helped our Growing Media program, providing us with new opportunities to explore.”

"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.”

"If it was easily solved by people within the industry, it would have been solved by people within the industry. The InnoCentive process allows us to step outside of the box."