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Top 10 Innovation Links for the Week of 1.29.16

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Welcome to Spigit’s weekly roundup of innovation links, where we feature a carefully curated selection of our favorite content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. The skinny: Uber launched in London in mid-2012. Who it’s from: Harvard Business Review. How do you Crowdsource Innovation?

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Don't Abandon Crowdfunding -- Manage It

Harvard Business Review

I also agree that due diligence is an imperative — and is often overlooked by crowdfunders as impractical or overly complex. The April 2012 report estimates that 452 crowdfunding platforms (CFPs) raised nearly $1.5 billion in 2012. billion in 2011, and that funding volume is on track to nearly double to $2.8

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Let the Crowd Fix Your Product's Bugs

Harvard Business Review

The more I learn about the results from crowdsourcing and open innovation efforts, the more I believe that the smart strategy is to expose your problems and challenges to as many people as possible and let them show you what they can do. So why not expose your tough problems to as many eyeballs as possible?

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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

John Deere’s Intelligent Solutions Group has turned real-time data, crowdsourced from thousands of the company’s customers, into services enabled by Big Data. The company had very few software engineers. At Ford Motor Company, building world-class software engineering capabilities has become a strategic imperative.

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The Benefits of Giving Away What Your Company Knows

Harvard Business Review

Etsy analyzes technical challenges on its public engineering blog , opens its professional development workshops to the local coder community, publishes success stories on its Slideshare channel, and gives away code on its GitHub repositories, all to help other software-centric firms accelerate their own learning and growth.

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Why More M&As Is a Sign That Scale Is No Longer an Advantage

Harvard Business Review

” In a 2012 article for Harvard Business Review, Maxwell Wessel argued that scale, “one of the last bastions from the competitive storm,” is no longer profitable or safe. A recent USA Today piece noted: “At the end of June [2015], there were 3,739 breweries in the U.S…that’s

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Innovation Isn't Tied to Size, but to Operating Rules

Harvard Business Review

HP is #10 on the 2012 list, and IBM is number 19. Back in 2002 , when Sam Palmisano took over, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services,such as back-office outsourcing, and personal computers. IBM and HP are two amazing companies with long and meaningful histories.