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During my first two weeks as a Marketing Intern for IdeaScale, I learned about how the business world operates, particularly how an organization uses crowdsourced innovation with tools such as IdeaScale. Every company says they want to be “innovative” and some of them use “crowdsourcing” to do so.
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I like to argue (for example, here ) that one of the major reasons crowdsourcing has not yet become a mainstream innovation tool is a paralyzing uncertainty over the question which technical or business problem can be successfully solved by using this approach. Internal Crowdsourcing (IC).
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I like to argue (for example, here ) that one of the major reasons crowdsourcing has not yet become a mainstream innovation tool is a paralyzing uncertainty over the question which technical or business problem can be successfully solved by using this approach. Internal Crowdsourcing (IC).
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It revolutionized cloud computing with the launch of Amazon Web Services in 2006. Amazon is among a handful of companies that seems to be able to enter any market, disrupt the current establishment, and innovate to a level that leaves competitors reeling. That’s a lot of innovation and disruption of an industry for one company.
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