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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Report Marketing Software Idea Management 246

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Why engage in changing to Innovation Ecosystems Following on from my last two posts related to recognizing the importance of Innovation Ecosystems we need to ask what makes these dynamic, interconnected and engaging, from a diverse groups perspective? This diversity ensures a rich exchange of ideas and fosters creativity.

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Engagement ChatGPT Innovation Open Innovation 114

IdeaScale

JANUARY 1, 2020

For the past eight years, NASA has been running an internal crowdsourcing program with great success. This webinar highlights that success and delves into best practices for internal crowdsourcing from the minds at NASA. How to Change the Culture of the Military with Crowdsourcing. NASA’s Internal Crowd.

Crowdsourcing 195

Crowdsourcing Ideation Innovation Programs Technical Review 195

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.

Crowdsourcing 100

Crowdsourcing Engagement Collaboration Resources 100

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.

Crowdsourcing 100

Crowdsourcing Engagement Resources Management 100

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.

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Collaboration Artificial Inteligence Agile Ideation 148

IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

Recently a customer asked me if I could share some insight as to what type of incentives really work to drive engagement across divisions and companies. Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives. enhanced collaboration via shared objectives, and 3.

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Crowdsourcing Ideation Innovation Management Engagement 223

IdeaScale

MAY 18, 2021

In 2021, we expect to see faster turnaround times on ideas, even faster growth in departments focused directly on innovation, more engagement from leaders, and a shift to transformational and adjacent change in innovation strategy. Overview: Ideascale’s 2021 Innovation Report finds that 2020 made innovation strategy essential.

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Report Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement 130

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.

Collaboration 241

Collaboration Design Innovation Technical Review 241

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 9, 2016

The use of crowdsourcing : the goal for me, is to engage and move the crowd towards a new direction, by encouraging out individual thinking and discovery, searching for combining these contributions; ones that lead to novel, new answers that move a challenge forward into a solution, one that has improved value over the existing.

Crowdsourcing 145

Crowdsourcing Engagement Open Innovation Management 145

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?

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Crowdsourcing Agile LEAN 100

IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Moderators say it’s a powerful tool for employee engagement and collaboration. He says surprising things happen when you pull together a multidisciplinary group to crowdsource ideas. Stearns’ story is a great example of this sort of crowdsourced product development. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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Crowdsourcing Product Development Marketing Innovation Programs 70

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.

Software 98

Software Collaboration Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 98

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Partly it seems executives don’t engage with their brand or business in the way that their customers do” The difference between DMAIC, DMADV, and Innovation Management (tackling a critical part of Six Sigma). “Will crowdsourcing provide predictable outcomes?

Crowdsourcing 200

Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 200

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries. Create a hub where ideas can flow freely, fostering a dynamic environment for collaboration.

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Open Innovation Collaboration Innovation Design 148

IdeaScale

JUNE 23, 2015

As a result of their Frontline 2020 initiative, the WAP feels more connected and collaborative than ever. The kilometers between are hardly noticeable with the centralized digital meeting spot to recommend better ways of working, solutions to problems, and collaborate with fellows—regardless of physical location.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Case Study How To Study 100

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Future products are increasingly engaging the consumer as they evolve and respond to “data” and knowledge supplied back. They are comfortable with assessing risk, knowing the need to build in as much collaboration as possible. Do the PLM providers hold the innovation key?

Software Review 222

Software Review Software Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 222

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 10, 2018

It was a fascinating gathering of community-focused minds and experts, with special guests including the New York City Police Department’s Deputy Commissioner for Strategic Initiatives, Zachary Tumin, and Susan Herman, Deputy Commissioner for Collaborative Policing at the NYPD. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

Crowdsourcing 149

Crowdsourcing Policies Engagement Innovation 149

IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2018

The reason that they won this award is, because they were able to collaborate with other crowdsourcing platform TopCoder to test and prototype promising solutions right away – a great use of crowd resources. This year, QED won the Innovation Management award for best innovation realized.

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Case Study Crowdsourcing Ideation Study 63

IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This is our fifth annual award series and we honor winners in three categories: best innovation engagement strategy, best innovation process, and best innovation. Engagement. Every year we celebrate entrants who have demonstrated creativity and results in their engagement strategy. Why did we pick the categories that we did?

Innovation Management 149

Innovation Management Management Engagement Crowdsourcing 149

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

Open collaboration should be at the top of my mind- far more than today. Collaborative Ideation Beyond Ecosystem Boundaries: Description: Extend the boundaries of collaborative ideation beyond your existing Ecosystems. Create a hub where ideas can flow freely, fostering a dynamic environment for collaboration.

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Open Innovation Innovation Collaboration Design 148

Qmarkets

MARCH 18, 2020

Whatever disruptive challenges your company is facing, it is important to remember that your crowdsourcing platform can help you find a solution. By having a repeatable method in place to collaborate around ideas and refine solutions for challenges as and when they arise, you can help safeguard your enterprise.

Collaboration 98

Collaboration Brainstorming How To Crowdsourcing 98

IdeaScale

MARCH 6, 2019

Officers must be prepared to engage with the public in a variety of ways, and non-enforcement staff must be ready to take care of all back-office processes so that officers can do their jobs effectively and efficiently. IdeaScale invites you to learn more by downloading our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper.

Innovation Management 189

Innovation Management Management Software Innovation 189

Planview

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Scott Raskin, CEO at Spigit, recently wrote an article for HR Daily Advisor that covered five key drivers for employee engagement, and how crowdsourced innovation can help. The reality is, traditional employee engagement tools – surveys, for example – are not effective. Key takeaways.

Crowdsourcing 45

Crowdsourcing Engagement Survey Innovation 45

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Because it invests customers in product development, it can also be useful from a marketing perspective or if you want to use crowdsourcing, but don’t want to deal with the downsides of the entire internet having a vote on your product. Open innovation starts with an engaged, interested customer base.

Open Innovation 100

Open Innovation Collaboration Software Review Innovation 100

InnovationManagement

MAY 18, 2021

Many enterprise organizations use crowdsourcing to find ideas in their blind spots - but how do you launch your first crowdsourcing challenge, and what sorts of questions do you ask? IdeaScale Crowd is hosting a webinar for first-time crowdsourcing innovators who want to engage a large group of collaborators in solving their problems.

Crowdsourcing 62

Crowdsourcing Product Innovation How To Innovation 62

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future. Connecting up and Deploying Collaboration Tools. To achieve a fluid, dynamic design in any new innovation solution recognizes our growing reliance on different collaboration tools.

Innovation 190

Innovation Design Collaboration Engagement 190

IdeaScale

JULY 24, 2018

When brainstorming and collaborative ideation happens in a physical location, it trends towards polite agreement or staying with the ideas that occur in that small frame of time and receive the most group consensus. To learn more about NYU’s AMC crowdsourcing initiative, download the case study here! Avoiding Groupthink.

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Case Study Brainstorming Ideation Study 154

InnovationManagement

MAY 11, 2020

IdeaScale has recently acquired Betterific, a crowdsourcing platform that engages a community of 18,000+ creative problem solvers, design thinkers, and ideators to help you come up with your next big idea. The post The Three Challenges of Crowdsourced Innovation appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Crowdsourcing Ideation Innovation Engagement 67

IdeaScale

MAY 25, 2017

Crowdsourcing helps scale and prioritize the effort of new ideas. Transparent, collaborative systems like IdeaScale’s allow ideas to combine, merge, and grow , which guarantee more quality ideas than those available in a closed system. They want to impact employee engagement. They don’t have enough quality ideas.

Ideation 133

Ideation Software Crowdsourcing Innovation 133

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Crucial to this type of engagement is the availability and accessibility of government data. True dedication to an open government is demonstrated in a country’s effort to engage citizens when they appear to lose interest or grow weary of participating. But eligibility doesn’t necessarily correlate with engagement. .

Crowdsourcing 100

Crowdsourcing Collaboration Engagement Data 100

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 1, 2017

I have written about the new innovation era in 2017 made up of higher levels of needed collaboration, where platforms, ecosystems and customer experience understanding become increasingly central. Collaborations across organizations can defray the cost; it limits risk but encourages experiment.

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Innovation Collaboration Disruption Engagement 171

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 5, 2021

First, make sure to properly engage your employees at every step of the way. Remember, only around 41% of employees were actively engaged during 2020. To keep staff engaged going forward, you’ll need to make sure you’re constantly communicating with your teams, offering recognition, and responding to their needs.

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How To Crowdsourcing Trends Innovation 147

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Increased integration with other business tools, such as project management and collaboration software. More use of gamification techniques to encourage participation and engagement among employees. Project management: Allows teams to track the progress of projects and collaborate with others.

Software 183

Software Innovation Management Management Artificial Inteligence 183

Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

The concept of crowdsourcing, coined by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson in a 2006 Wired article , has revolutionized how businesses and organizations solve problems and innovate. In this article, we’ll explore how businesses are using crowdsourcing to drive innovation. What is Crowdsourcing?

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Crowdsourcing Examples Software Review Software 52

IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2019

This can take many forms beyond just believing in a bold idea, like evaluating whether open innovation or crowdsourcing is the best technique for your particular risk scenario. Collaboration. Do more than just lead your team. A truism of innovation strategy is that people want to be heard and understood.

Innovation 178

Innovation Leadership Crowdsourcing Creativity 178

IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2017

Most IdeaScale customers are using their innovation program to collaborate with their employees. They have a team dedicated to implementation and they use incentives to increase engagement. If you want to learn more from IdeaScale’s customer data, download the 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report. appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Ideation Innovation Programs Innovation Crowdsourcing 140