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3 Lessons Learned from Open Nation 2017

IdeaScale

They came to discuss how crowdsourcing ideas is changing their organizations and to learn best practices from each other. Tim Parsons (@rookzero) November 2, 2017. — Whitney Bernstein (@whit_berns) November 2, 2017. To tide you over until next year, you can view presentations from Open Nation 2017 here.

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Examining the State of Crowdsourced Innovation in 2019

IdeaScale

From 2012 through 2017, companies started devoting less innovation management resources to core innovations, and more to core-adjacent and transformational innovations. We encourage you to download the IdeaScale 2019 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report for a deeper dive into the topic of innovation management that gets results.

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Crowdsourcing and APIs: Everything You Need to Know

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is the act of harnessing the power and work force of a crowd to accomplish a task. Lately, companies creating documentation for APIs have turned to crowdsourcing. Becky Todd, a content manager at Atlassian (a collaboration software company), gave a talk at 2017’s Write the Docs Prauge. Advantages. Disadvantages.

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13 Things to Know About Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

In 2017, United Way Worldwide’s (UWW) Innovation Team worked with a group of eight United Ways to pioneer and test crowdsourcing to engage individuals digitally in a new and innovative way (especially Millennials) using IdeaScale and they learned a lot along the way. Crowdsourcing requires a great question.

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Key Takeaways from Open Nation 2017

IdeaScale

In the next few weeks, we’ll upload the presentation content from the day, which includes some great thoughts from the United States Coast Guard, IKEA, and others, but in the meantime, please enjoy some of these key takeaways that surfaced over the course of two days: Not every problem is a problem to be solved by crowdsourcing.

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A Look Back at Crowdsourced Innovation in 2020

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing can influence innovation. According to a 2017 survey, 86% of companies who incorporate crowdsourcing in the workplace cite employee engagement as a top priority. Data gathered from IdeaScale’s innovation communities provides benchmarks and insights for innovators creating new crowdsourced innovation programs.

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Five Must-Attend Innovation & Tech Conferences in 2017

IdeaScale

So, to help you pick, we’ve selected 2017’s most fascinating, compelling innovation conferences to mark on your calendars. Disrupt 2017. There’s the virtual one happening every day: join the IdeaScale community now and add crowdsourcing to your innovation strategy. New York, May 15th to 17th.