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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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The process is collaborative by nature, often involving diverse teams to tap into different perspectives and areas of expertise. Whether applied internally with employees or externally through crowdsourcing , the ideation process helps organizations turn creativity into meaningful outcomes, positioning them for long-term success.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 24, 2022

Compared to innovation in general, sustainable innovation is more disruptive, fueled by a better rationale, and is more collaborative. Finally, sustainable innovation is more collaborative because it’s a cross-discipline concept. Three Ways Sustainable Innovation Transcends Ordinary Innovation.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2019

Here are a few examples of companies that set the “lone inventor on a hill” myth aside in favor of real innovation with the help of IdeaScale. Citrix decided to use its own collaborative nature to tackle one of its biggest challenges, namely, doing things even better. Collaboration is a powerful tool. Citrix is all about access.

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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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Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

Here is where crowdsourcing comes in. As an example, the CFO of an industry leading global company with a $2b+ innovation portfolio was challenged to find a way to even estimate when parts of their portfolio would become cash positive once the innovations proceeded into production. More things can go wrong. There is no track record.

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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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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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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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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

Small changes and tweaks, for example, can be put on an “express lane” that only has a few steps, has a clear date of execution, and only involves the stakeholders directly affected. You can even use the platform to draw on ideas from outside the company, such as crowdsourcing, open innovation, and collaborating with clients directly.

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 8, 2018

Here are some examples. Open innovation and crowdsourcing take closed doors and open them. They ask all comers to suggest ideas for specific challenges and they collaborate with many outside companies and inventors to bring new products to market. If it is open what would happen if you enclosed it? Computing. •

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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. One example was a challenge of time management. NASA didn’t get there by luck or sheer intellect.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2019

A good example of this is open betas for software, where the general public can download the latest version of an upcoming operating system or another tool with the understanding that it may not be stable and that they’ll need to disclose any bugs or issues they find. How Should I Use Open Innovation?

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InnovationManagement

JUNE 24, 2021

As the director of the IdeaScale Crowd community, I recently had the opportunity to share some insights and best practices for innovators who are new to crowdsourcing, and may not have conducted their first campaign yet. The post Five Questions to Answer Before Crowdsourcing appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

For example, a retailer moving from brick-and-mortar stores to a fully digital e-commerce platform is undergoing digital transformation. A company launching an AI-powered chatbot to provide 24/7 customer support, or a manufacturer using IoT sensors to optimize production lines, are both examples of digital innovation in action.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 21, 2025

Self-healing materials that repair cracks in buildings, nuclear fusion promising limitless clean energy, and brain-computer interfacesthese examples arent just science fiction anymore. Now, lets explore some real-world examples of breakthrough innovations that have reshaped entire sectors. They rewrite the rules entirely.

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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.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 9, 2017

A good example of it can be found in fitness apps. That’s a good example of “gamifying” fitness, an extremely popular strategy. That’s a good example of “gamifying” fitness, an extremely popular strategy. Gamification is the addition of game-like ideas and rewards to a work process.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Not every innovation program has developed the communications skill set necessary to engage a global workforce or customer base in sharing ideas, developing ideas, and collaborating. And if you’re not investing in communications, then you’re not maximizing the value of your crowdsourced innovation community.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

An open innovation strategy is about reaching beyond internal resources to collaborate with external sources—whether they’re customers, academic institutions, startups, or other firms—to discover, develop, and launch new ideas. But what exactly does open innovation entail, and how can companies leverage it strategically?

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2019

This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look before you jump; instead, follow the example of Houdini. 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.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Themes vary year to year (for example, this year a top theme was innovation metrics and program data), but a few categories seem to appear every year: engagement, process, and idea implementation. So these are the categories that we learn from and try to celebrate. Here are just a few of the benefits of succeeding in each one. Engagement.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Once identified, teams can collaborate to generate, refine, and prioritize concepts. By hosting targeted innovation challenges, organizations can crowdsource solutions, leveraging external expertise to tackle complex problems that internal teams may struggle to solve alone.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Increased integration with other business tools, such as project management and collaboration software. Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR): VR and AR technology could be used to create virtual environments for idea generation and collaboration, potentially replacing or complementing current software solutions.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, co-creation… overlapping terminologies to describe a trend towards more open business models and a closer collaboration with customers. On this page we gather a list of inspiring examples.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, co-creation… overlapping terminologies to describe a trend towards more open business models and a closer collaboration with customers. On this page we gather a list of inspiring examples.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 31, 2020

For example, during the Boston Small Pox Epidemic in 1721, half of Boston’s population of 11,000 was infected and 850 died, but from this epidemic came the idea of vaccination. Innovations in technology allow workers across multiple industries to communicate, collaborate, and innovate all around the world from their own homes.

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Planview

AUGUST 15, 2017

Collaboration is a core part of the organization’s mandate, but before Spigit and the #SDGInsights program, there was no way to frequently and easily tap the collective intelligence of individuals, teams, and organizations who want to join forces with the UN. Collaborating with the world. Why is the UN leveraging open ideation?

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hackerearth

JULY 19, 2017

As an innovation technique, crowdsourcing or soliciting ideas from people to work collaboratively or individually toward a common goal has been around for a while. What can crowdsourcing be used for? Apart from funding, crowdsourcing can help you garner support from all quarters to build a successful campaign.

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Planview

DECEMBER 14, 2017

How can we effectively collaborate with startups? Why should enterprises collaborate with startups? But what does effective startup-enterprise collaboration look like? In this article, we’ll look at one company that has cracked the code on effective collaboration with startups and, more importantly, how they did it.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2024

However, the term “innovation accelerator” can refer to several types of initiatives: Corporate Accelerators: Programs run by companies to nurture internal projects or collaborate with startups to bring new solutions to market. For external startup collaboration, establish partnerships with universities, research centers, and startup hubs.

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Planview

JUNE 19, 2019

One way to do that is through crowdsourced innovation. The good news is that you can prevent this slump from happening by looking for ideas beyond the boardroom, crowdsourcing employees, partners, and customers for innovative ideas and solutions. Crowdsourcing Innovation Effectively. Innovation drives companies into the future.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. In fact, a number of organizations are now making the unconventional decision to collaborate with the very same people who are threatening them: their competitors. While it may seem counterintuitive, collaborating with your rivals actually makes sense.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 24, 2018

Much like its inspiration, Open Nation DC brought together an energetic, eclectic group of IdeaScale customers and prospects to knowledge-share, network and collaborate. Taylor and Ascione have long been champions of crowdsourcing, as they’ve built their program from the ground up, despite that not being part of their job description.

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IdeaConnection

MAY 18, 2018

An article in the current edition of Forbes online highlights four examples of how this can be achieved through crowdsourcing initiatives. 2) Raising capital to fund promising new ventures: for example, Ixcela turned to equity crowdfunding to raise funds to develop its proprietary technology to identify imbalances in the gut biome.

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