Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

By following a structured, systematic idea management process, corporations use the collective mind of their own people to design new improved technologies, products and services, to continue improve processes, optimize operations and cut costs. . Two forms of crowdsourcing approaches seem particularly relevant in this context.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

It’s time to realize the power an open innovation challenge methodology - specifically one that involves crowdsourcing - can have when it comes to affecting real change. On both fronts, crowdsourcing--tapping on the collective wisdom of people in Europe and the rest of the world--can become a valuable source of ideas and solutions.

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Swarmvision

AUGUST 10, 2017

Core Technology (CT), the function most expected to deliver innovation, scored among the lowest on innovation skill. Yet within Core Technology, individual innovation scores ranged from a low of 45 to a high of 94. This matters when the organization is relying on technology or R&D to deliver innovation. Guess what?

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Innovation Crowdsourcing Disruption Ideation 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

In many ways, the biggest business developments of 2010 were the things that didn't happen. Yet, even in the midst of gridlock in Washington, economic anxiety around the world, and government liquidity crises in Europe, technology marched on, seemingly impervious to global events. Big companies with cash didn't spend it.

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Technology Entrepreneurship Innovation Crowdsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Research published by Rosalind Bergemann in 2010 among workers who voluntarily chose to become independent reveals that 74% of respondents cited a lack of employer engagement as their principal reason for leaving. New technologies and services for contingent workers make it easier and less painful to make the choice to go independent.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Back in 2011, crowdsourcing was fueling an explosion in open innovation. At that time, most Fortune 500 firms had launched crowdsourcing initiatives or partnered with startups in order to access outside innovators or co-create with customers. The providers of crowdsource solutions had their heyday. These crowdsourcing 1.0

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Crowdsourcing Open Innovation Design Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 for Spain's financial sector.

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Engagement Crowdsourcing Creativity Comparison 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. It increased R&D spending from 7-8% of revenue before 2009 to 11-12% of revenue starting in 2010, and maximized the return on that increased investment. How did Bally Technologies do it?

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Technology Underperforming Technical Team Innovation System 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

For a glimpse into how social will further integrate with "real life," we can look at what Coca Cola experimented with all the way back in 2010. A crowdsourcing platform for would be inventors called Quirky lets the best product ideas rise to the top and then helps them get produced and sold while the "inventor" takes a cut.

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Trends Crowdsourcing Technical Review Video 22

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. Crowdsourced contestification is becoming institutionalized as a way firms can grow their own innovation nations. That's right. Contestification. Think of them as part of the global supply chain.

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Innovation Competition Crowdsourcing Design 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

The Institute, which officially opened in January 2010, includes the Model Kitchen, the Testing Station for Household Devices, and what's called the "Domestic Science Laboratory." And outsourced technology providers, such as Bazaarvoice, made it relatively straightforward to add consumer product reviews to retail sites.

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Technical Review Crowdsourcing Marketing Course 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Which is why more companies are testing crowdsourcing initiatives and other ways to encourage people to innovate. In 2010, one large Asian information technology services company decided to run an experiment to see if rewards could actually improve and encourage employee ideas.

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Technical Review Crowdsourcing Groups Creativity 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Here are the three principles that guided our efforts: People make the world go round.and technology makes it go faster. In 2010, Ben's Friends got too big and costly to fund ourselves so we turned to crowdfunding. We set out to become one of the first capital efficient social impact organizations. It made sense.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Video 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

In 2010, Nike launched the Nike+ app , which allowed runners to track and share their paths via Twitter and Facebook. It’s almost like a 34-minute infomercial of a product crowdsourced by the community, or a reinvented digital Tupperware Party. This level of engagement is astonishing (and unprecedented).

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Marketing Engagement Groups Crowdsourcing 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

In 2010, Pepsi pulled its Super Bowl ads and invested $20 million into its Refresh project , which employed crowdsourcing to support good causes. Kennedy proposing his man-to-the-moon idea by focusing on rocket technology, rather than America’s aspirations for the space age. That would be like John F.

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Marketing Handbook Crowdsourcing Case Study 11

IdeaScale

APRIL 20, 2017

In fact, with just two ideas the government saved more than $42M by the year 2014 while using IdeaScale technology. That is one way to better adopt and leverage technology! In 2014, FDA CDER launched a crowdsourced employee engagement initiative to increase the level of employee engagement in high-level decision making.

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