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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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. Focus groups are a time-honored way to gather public opinion as well.

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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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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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

The first group are recent ones providing a really good depth to them. “Will crowdsourcing provide predictable outcomes? No, everything you do to make for a good result still might not eventually deliver on this for all the preparation work you put in” Evaluating Crowdsourcing – has it a bright future?

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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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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

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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Hutch Carpenter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Previously, I’ve described Why Crowdsourcing Works. Crowdsourcing is a case where you get many people who don’t one another collaborating toward a defined outcome. To reiterate the principle points about the value of crowdsourcing: Diverse inputs drive superior solutions. How much does familiarity mean trust?

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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.

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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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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.

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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

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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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

IdeaScale offers crowdsourcing software, because the higher quantity and the greater diversity between linked ideas and concepts, the better an innovation program performs. However, to derive this benefit, organizations need to also be excellent at communications that invite people into their innovation communities to connect and collaborate.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Once the right strategy is in place for engagement, enable strong communication through various channels like video, audio, and chat, so teams can constantly come together and collaborate on new ideas. You can also encourage active innovation by bringing employees together for group meetings to brainstorm solutions to problems.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

Recently, I presented my framework to the GIMI think tank GIMI was initiated by a worldwide group of chief innovation officers, innovation executives, academics and consultants in 2009. Open collaboration should be at the top of my mind- far more than today. The framework I offered is built upon interconnected ecosystems.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 7, 2019

The current “fourth industrial revolution” is closely intertwined with innovation and is causing businesses and other organizations to expand from innovating only within the walls of the organization to collaborating with others. This brings many benefits but also changes expectations and requirements for succeeding.

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IdeaScale

MAY 25, 2017

When someone embeds a dedicated innovation group at their company or organization, there are several different approaches to managing research and idea stewardship and numerous problems to be solved. Crowdsourcing helps scale and prioritize the effort of new ideas. They don’t have enough quality ideas.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

No one organization can keep pace, has enough resources or can cover off solutions that solve “universal” problems or even ones in a diverse, huge Corporation collaborating across a global business where functional groups involved are far more diverse than ever before. The IM software market is stirring. Take Aras and its solutions.[1].

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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

JULY 19, 2017

And then the profile for the embedded innovation group within an organization: A majority of IdeaScale customers have some level of program maturity (between 1-3 years old). Most IdeaScale customers are using their innovation program to collaborate with their employees. The post What Does an Innovator Look Like?

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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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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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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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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

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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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

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Collaborative platforms leverage group input to refine raw concepts into actionable plans. Brainwriting: Allowing team members to write down ideas individually before sharing with the group. Collaborative Idea Generators Collaboration-focused idea generators are designed to harness the power of collective intelligence.

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Hutch Carpenter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The area of collaborative innovation is a natural extension of the social business movement. It’s the extension of social into purposeful collaboration , a term Alan Lepofsky uses to describe the evolution of the social business market. It’s a different task than getting small teams to collaborate.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2019

The current “fourth industrial revolution” is closely intertwined with innovation and is causing businesses and other organizations to expand from innovating only within the walls of the organization to collaborating with others. This brings many benefits but also changes expectations and requirements for succeeding.

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IdeaScale

JULY 28, 2022

These web-focused brainstorming innovation tools will allow you and your team to put together more ideas and collaborate smoothly regardless of distance. Robust third-party support makes it useful brainstorming software for groups that have downtime at the airport or working on their phones or tablets. Lucidchart. MindMeister.

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Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2024

Collaboration has become the secret sauce behind many groundbreaking products and services. Boeing utilized a global network of experts, collaborating with engineers and specialists from various companies and countries to design and build this revolutionary aircraft. Take, for instance, the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2021

Your employees are a great place to start: after all, if there’s one group of people that understands your business inside and out, it’s your workforce. Well, you can work with external networks of talent and expertise by extending your crowdsourcing efforts beyond your organization’s walls. And to evaluate them? And to prototype them?

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