Wrapping Up 2023: Celebrating Progress and Looking Ahead to 2024!
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We’re ready to say goodbye to an eventful and challenging year, but we want to end on a positive note.
So, we're excited to share our highlights and give you a sneak peek into what's coming in 2024. This might seem like a chunk of text, but trust us, it's packed with valuable nuggets to end the year and kickstart your 2024 on the right note.
True to our mission
As part of HYPE Innovation , we are now better positioned to provide not just the best tool to manage ideation and innovation, but also to offer the guidance that helps organizations succeed at innovation. We remain dedicated to our mission of democratizing innovation and providing you with high-quality, practical and valuable resources on innovation and leading innovation.?Here's how we did that in 2023:
Viima’s Blog, a reliable source of innovation and leadership content
In 2023, we published ten meticulously crafted articles that uphold our standard of quality over quantity. Viima's blog has gained its reputation over the years among innovators worldwide. While difficult to maintain visibility among all the mass-produced AI-generated content, we're working hard to deliver well-researched, actionable and valuable content.
The most popular in 2023 were:
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P.S. We're eager to learn about other innovation topics you'd like to explore in more depth and in what format. We'd appreciate it if you could take three minutes of your time to?share your ideas, wishes and thoughts.
The Innovation Management Fundamental Course
For those curious minds and avid learners this autumn we launched The Innovation Management Fundamental course.
The free eight-week crash course takes you on a deep dive into the ocean of innovation management. It's designed to guide innovation practitioners with structured methods, actionable tips, and a treasure trove of resources. If you missed the October launch, discover the course here and enroll for free.
The Innovation Room Podcast
We continued to pick the brains of experts, innovators, and trailblazers in The Innovation Room podcast, covering diverse topics from corporate business building to open innovation and mindfulness in innovation work.
A special thanks to our guests Oana-Maria Pop , Immanuel Jonathan Nama , Frank Mattes and Matt Mueller .
Tune in on your preferred platform or catch the faces behind the voices on our YouTube Channel.
Speaking of YouTube, this year we had four new episodes in the "Innovation, Explained" series where we cover everything innovation in a compact, easy-to-follow format.?
As embarrassing as it might be, we tap ourselves on the shoulder for these achievements.
Viima’s evolution
Turning 10 this year, Viima got a facelift to celebrate. We revamped Viima’s UX, making it not just more beautiful, modern and intuitive, but also more powerful with the highly requested Kanban view and workflow automation feature.
We also added new board templates to facilitate your innovation processes. What is a Viima board you might ask? A Viima board represents a single use case. This could be anything from a continuous process, a one-off idea campaign, or even a board for facilitating a workshop. Board templates help you get started, so that you can focus on making minor tweaks to match your precise needs, as opposed to setting everything up from scratch.
You can start with templates for continuous improvement, idea validation, open innovation, brainstorming, phase-gate and more. As expected, the three most popular board templates that customer used this year are those for continuous improvement, brainstorming and innovation management.
At first glance, Viima helps you collect, evaluate, prioritize and develop ideas. But Viima is more than that and it’s rewarding to learn in the conversations with our customers that there are so many more ways in which they use Viima to build a culture of innovation and achieve their goals. The more they use it, the more excited they get to discover all it can do.
To give everyone a better first-hand experience, the new Help Center has been integrated into Viima to guide you in your innovation journey.
A round of applause to our developers, Aaro Isom?ki and Joona Tykkyl?inen who make all this happen.
What's not included in this not-so-brief summary is all the hard work of the business development and customer success teams. They push the envelope every day to meet and exceed the expectations of new and existing customers. Hats off to Petteri H?yrynen , Niclas Borenius and Atte Isom?ki .
Looking ahead to 2024
As a HYPE product, Viima will be able to provide even more comprehensive solutions as well as seamless integration between the HYPE Suite of products. Viima customers can also start benefiting from accelerated development as we work on shared features across all HYPE products.
This includes some of the many AI features we're already working on. Finally, Agile Innovation Management will be one of our main focus areas in 2024. The world is moving faster than ever, and we want to empower organizations to adapt swiftly to these challenging times by excelling at innovation.
Here's to an agile, innovative, and transformative 2024 with Viima and HYPE!
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