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A Lateral Way to Expose War Crimes and Fight Disinformation

Destination Innovation

In 2014 he founded Bellingcat as a journalistic group which would investigate war crimes and major incidents using open source intelligence (OSINT). Bellingcat’s first major success was its investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) which was shot down on 17 July 2014 while flying over Ukraine.

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How Crowdsourcing is Shaping the Future of Digital Interaction

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is quickly evolving and gaining notoriety in the business world. According to a study performed by the company Eyeka in 2014, in the past 10 years, 85% of the top global brands have used crowdsourcing efforts within their company. Interacting digitally through crowdsourcing is the quickest way this can be done.

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Crowdsourcing Trends Shaping the Future of Innovation

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Most businesses understand the importance of crowdsourcing, and as a result, are implementing it into their business plans. Decentralization.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

In 2014 the Lego Movie was awarded 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a marriage made in heaven for the toy company and spawned video games and short movies which became wildly popular. Innovative use of Video. Lego invested heavily in high quality movies. Each movie generated large follow-on sales of models.

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A Look Back at the Innovation Management Awards

IdeaScale

2014 : Department of Energy. Crowdsourcing a winning ballot measure! Empowering staff to shape the future of the ITS organization. Finding the 5 Solar IT Start-Ups You Need to Know. Department of Labor. Identifying employment opportunities for people with disabilities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

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Crowdfunding Efforts in the Wake of Harvey, Irma, Maria and the Earthquake

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing covers a number of activities. Obviously, you can collect ideas and collaborate on their development using a tool like IdeaScale, but crowdsourcing can also be used to gather funds from the public and when that happens, it’s called crowdfunding. It could be used to share knowledge as you do on Quora or Wikipedia.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Seed Published: 2014 more…. Focus stage: Seed Published: 2014 more…. Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Crowdsourcing Process (Geiger). Stage-Gate Model in Crowdsourcing (Saldanha). Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2014 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2014 more…. Double Diamond (Chu).