--- title: How Sanford Health Ran a Digital Continuous Improvement Event  description: Register to learn how Sanford Health, one of the largest rural health systems in the US, digitized a continuous improvement event with Ideawake. --- [![LIGHT ideawake-logo-simple](https://info.ideawake.com/hs-fs/hubfs/LIGHT%20ideawake-logo-simple.png?width=600&height=84&name=LIGHT%20ideawake-logo-simple.png "LIGHT ideawake-logo-simple")](https://ideawake.com) # The Show Went On: How Sanford Health Successfully Ran a Digital Continuous Improvement Event  ### Learn how Sanford Health digitized their annual continuous improvement symposiums in a year where digital work became the norm, implementing employees' innovative ideas and saving hours of time in the process.   ### Watch the Playback ## What You Will Learn - The obstacles the health system faced at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, from overall operations to long-term innovation plans - The tactical solutions the Sanford Innovation team proposed to remain agile in the new working environment - How Sanford leveraged Ideawake to digitize an annual in-person continuous improvement event across 4 geographies - The innovative ideas Sanford employees that were chosen to for system-wide implementation # The most powerful landing page ever built. #### WILL HELP YOU: 7 ways companies have been using ideation challenges to address COVID-19 and civil unrest - How to create challenge statements to ensure the ideas being collected tie to organizational goals and strategy - How to promote and communicate your challenge in a fully remote environment to get 60% - 80% of employees signed up and actively participating - Best practices and options for incentivizing participation in your challenge - Common obstacles you'll encounter planning and running your challenge, and how to address each of them   ### SPEAKERS ![Abby Carmody headshot](https://info.ideawake.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Abby%20Carmody%20headshot.png?width=233&name=Abby%20Carmody%20headshot.png "Abby Carmody headshot") ### Abby Carmody ##### Improvement Strategist at Sanford Health *“As the person who used to calculate idea scores based on specific criteria, judging with Ideawake was a breeze.”* ![Carson Walker headshot](https://info.ideawake.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Carson%20Walker%20headshot.png?width=245&name=Carson%20Walker%20headshot.png "Carson Walker headshot") ### Carson Walker ##### Innovation Specialist at Sanford Health *“With Ideawake, participants have a foundation of ideas they can build off of—a foundation of quality ideas.”* ## About Ideawake Enabling organizations in 39 countries and over 185 cities to cost effectively discover more solutions, prioritize the best one's faster, and transform more of them into impact. [Learn more](https://ideawake.com) ![customer-logos-darkened](https://info.ideawake.com/hs-fs/hubfs/customer-logos-darkened.png?width=1777&name=customer-logos-darkened.png "customer-logos-darkened")