IdeaScale

APRIL 6, 2021

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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 5, 2016

Crowdsourcing does have a real potential in my mind but does seem to have some formidable issues to work through, to be well understood and managed. Continuing with my exploring crowdsourcing. Let’s start here by raising some of the biggest concerns you might have over crowdsourcing? this source: [link]. Part one is here.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. Crowdsourcing does have both the potential to point towards disrupting possibilities, extends the concept of open innovation into a wider source of participation from a diverse community not possible to reach by other means as effectively.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 10, 2021

There’s no better demonstration of the power of crowdsourcing than proof of it in action. Here are four examples of crowdsourcing in action improving everything from financial services to government communications. So the bank turned to its internal crowdsourcing group , UpSquad, for ideas.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Collaboration, Idealization and the enabling of innovation I have have been looking back at innovation and how it has changed over the last twenty-five years. This is the second post looking more at collaboration and idealization and how and what has helped it evolve in this period. Leaders are not the only ones who have ideas.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 9, 2020

It includes features such as: The ability to customize organizational needs Tools to promote collaboration with others The ability to seamlessly integrate business processes. This occurs either within the company or through the use of crowdsourcing and presents more opportunities for bringing people together. Report Rankings.

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HYPE Innovation

MAY 18, 2023

For decades, c rowdsourcing has been a n important idea-generation method for many companies. If carried out well , crowdsourcing u nit es the "crowd" in pursuit of the common goal of gathering cutting-edge innovation knowledge and insights.

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HYPE Innovation

MAY 18, 2023

For decades, c rowdsourcing has been a n important idea-generation method for many companies. If carried out well , crowdsourcing u nit es the "crowd" in pursuit of the common goal of gathering cutting-edge innovation knowledge and insights.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. Crowdsourcing does have both the potential to point towards disrupting possibilities, extends the concept of open innovation into a wider source of participation from a diverse community not possible to reach by other means as effectively.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 5, 2016

Crowdsourcing does have a real potential in my mind but does seem to have some formidable issues to work through, to be well understood and managed. Continuing with my exploring crowdsourcing. Let’s start here by raising some of the biggest concerns you might have over crowdsourcing? this source: [link]. Part one is here.

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Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

Increasingly we find that companies want to go beyond idea collection to rigorously vet these ideas against barriers to implementation, in order to develop the most robust ideas quickly. Here is where crowdsourcing comes in. The company was stuck with a big budget number but left many revenue questions unanswered.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

In a fast-paced corporate environment where there are many expectations and a steady stream of work, how (and more importantly) why, would you carve out time to contribute to your company’s new ideation platform? Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Moderators say it’s a powerful tool for employee engagement and collaboration. People in the company always bring up my story to show that product ideas can come from anyone,” Stearns said. The mister became one of the fastest product launches the company ever had. It changed his life.

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IdeaScale

MAY 18, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic forced entire industries to rapidly change economic models, organizations to scale up different forms of infrastructure and build out both internal and external online engagement, and teams to find new ways of collaborating when they needed to stay out of the meeting room.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Happy workers aren’t just more productive, but they are more loyal to team and business, more innovative in an environment that lets them feel safe to experiment and risk failure, and they are more collaborative. How can creative collaboration help “value, attention, and credibility” to the parts of a partnership?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 4, 2025

This article explores 12 thought-provoking innovation quotes, each revealing a key lesson in crowdsourcing, collaboration, idea management , or continuous innovation. Crowdsourcing Innovation Quotes The Power of Collective Intelligence Great ideas dont happen in isolation.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Crowdsourcing vs. Focus Groups: A Comparative Review. Crowdsourcing is a great way to assemble data for product innovation. Think of crowdsourcing as a vehicle for getting well-informed results. Consider collaboration spaces, plenty of light, and a comfortable environment for your employees.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

The ability to tackle those larger societal problems within an ecosystem, or combine unique resources to overcome a complex challenge you are incapable of solving alone, do have greater potential in a collaborative adaptive system. As we learn we adapt, as we share we grow. But be aware – the challenges are difficult to work through.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 3, 2021

Collaborative innovation software brings purpose, focus, and structure to collaboration to help you turn ideas into commercial value. Collaboration tools are necessary to the proper functioning of any business, especially for organizations with a large workforce spread across many different locations around the globe.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Achieving the idea is the goal, but before you lie many different paths and approaches to get there, and you have to pick the one that suits your company. There are some starting points, including the overall history of innovation, your own company’s institutional knowledge, and case studies within your industry.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2021

Well, you can work with external networks of talent and expertise by extending your crowdsourcing efforts beyond your organization’s walls. This is why it’s important for leadership to recognize the power of crowdsourcing : it’s a sustainable process for repeatedly unlocking business value. And to think that all you have to do… is ask!

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 8, 2018

For companies like IBM, Oracle and Microsoft the door to the code in their products was firmly shut. Open innovation and crowdsourcing take closed doors and open them. Big companies used to try to solve their research problems in house and develop new products in secret. Here are some examples. Computing. •

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IdeaScale

APRIL 15, 2020

A 2017 survey revealed 57 percent of company leaders reported difficulties fostering an internal culture of experimentation and innovation. During the COVID-19 crisis, an idea management platform is needed to facilitate even more sharing and collaboration as employees are forced to work from home. IdeaScale has more than 4.5

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

With digital disruption accelerating across industries, traditional, closed approaches to innovation no longer suffice for most companies. In fact, research shows that companies practicing open innovation achieve faster time-to-market and often realize higher revenue from new products.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 16, 2019

” That’s one of the reasons why crowdsourcing software is so powerful, because it helps insulate companies against this risk as they can communicate and collaborate on great new ideas with people all around the world.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They came to discuss how crowdsourcing ideas is changing their organizations and to learn best practices from each other. Wing Tang of IKEA sat for a fireside interview (the fire was projected) with IdeaScale CEO Rob Hoehn to talk about how the spirit of inclusion that drives their crowdsourcing efforts.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 18, 2020

Although we are inevitably seeing the cancellation of business gatherings and events, along with increasingly severe “social distancing” restrictions concerning movement and the sharing of public spaces, this doesn’t mean that innovation at your company needs to be stifled.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

In fact, research shows that companies hosting regular hackathons see significant gains in employee engagement, faster prototyping, and fresh, actionable ideas. But behind every successful hackathon lies the right platform—one designed to streamline collaboration, track ideas, and manage participants efficiently. What is a Hackathon?

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Increased integration with other business tools, such as project management and collaboration software. More emphasis on data analytics and reporting to help companies better understand and track their innovation efforts. From < [link] > What holds Innovation software back for companies to adopt more?

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Traditionally, innovation in companies has been “closed.” Projects are kept secret, details are not shared outside the company or even certain departments, and secrecy is a requirement of working on the project. The post From Consumer to Collaborator: A Look at Open Innovation appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Viima

APRIL 17, 2023

There is a lot of buzz around open collaboration as a driver for innovation. Studies, academia, research, and the myriad of examples from companies are boasting about the amazing results brought by ideas from external parties. A study shows that 85% of the top global brands have used crowdsourcing during the last decade.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 26, 2020

As Carissa Callini, Ryan Stewart, and Jeff Doy of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation explain on the latest IdeaScale Nation podcast , it’s a tradition of hard work. Often crowdsourcing tools help with refining, not the solution, but rather the problem in the first place.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Companies that fail to innovate digitally risk being left behind as competitors leverage new tools, business models, and strategies to drive efficiency. Leveraging technology to create new products, services, and business models can transform the way companies operate. But why is this shift so important?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

and is modernizing how companies work. We need to think this new digital innovation structure to have both internal disciplines in solutions but also designed for extended enterprise collaborations so “ecosystems of innovations” can finally take hold. Do the PLM providers hold the innovation key?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 21, 2025

Companies that achieve it dont just stay ahead of the competition; they set the direction for the future. This article explores the core concept of breakthrough innovation, how it stands apart from radical and disruptive innovation , real-world examples of industry-changing advancements, and proven strategies companies can use to achieve it.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In a world where thousands of startups emerge each year, companies looking to stay competitive need to engage actively with this innovation ecosystem. Startups often bring fresh ideas, new technologies, and agile development approaches, but identifying the right ones to collaborate with or invest in can be complex.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 6, 2019

The purpose was to offer a collaborative space outside the chain of command for staff members to submit ideas and share knowledge. By facilitating sharing, collaboration, prioritization, development, and deployment of ideas, IdeaScale innovation management software ensures that great ideas don’t fall by the wayside.

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