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

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. QED : Make sure to think out your process past Ideation.

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HYPE Innovation

MAY 18, 2023

If carried out well , crowdsourcing u nit es the "crowd" in pursuit of the common goal of gathering cutting-edge innovation knowledge and insights. By bring ing together a diverse and broad community of people, this type of open innovation has the potential to uncover powerful solutions and solve complex problems.

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HYPE Innovation

MAY 18, 2023

If carried out well , crowdsourcing u nit es the "crowd" in pursuit of the common goal of gathering cutting-edge innovation knowledge and insights. By bring ing together a diverse and broad community of people, this type of open innovation has the potential to uncover powerful solutions and solve complex problems.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Businesses use robotic process automation (RPA) to handle repetitive tasks, AI-driven analytics to optimize supply chains, and cloud-based tools to improve collaboration. Idea Crowdsourcing and Hackathons Innovation thrives when businesses tap into collective intelligence.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 6, 2018

But this entire process reminded me of the importance of diversity in ideation. That’s what happens in IdeaScale when I get to collaborate with my colleagues, but it’s also what our customers experience when they do this work at scale and invite in even more voices. –.

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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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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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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The Power of Innovation Management Successful innovation doesn’t stop at ideation—it thrives on meticulous planning, execution, and adaptation. Generating and Refining Ideas Innovation begins with ideation. Once identified, teams can collaborate to generate, refine, and prioritize concepts.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

But behind every successful hackathon lies the right platform—one designed to streamline collaboration, track ideas, and manage participants efficiently. At its core, a hackathon is a time-bound event where participants collaborate intensively to tackle challenges, brainstorm innovative solutions, or build functional prototypes.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 12, 2024

By offering a structured approach to ideation, idea generators help bypass creative blocks and ensure that every voice, concept, or possibility is given the chance to shine. Collaborative platforms leverage group input to refine raw concepts into actionable plans. How Do Idea Generators Work?

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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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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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IdeaScale

MAY 25, 2017

Crowdsourcing helps scale and prioritize the effort of new ideas. Sometimes it even helps them find more resources since people naturally begin to facilitate for and help one another as part of an ideation community. They don’t have enough quality ideas. IdeaScale software offers a range of validation measures for good ideas.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 8, 2017

JUMP is an online crowdsourcing community launched in 2015. Upon announcement of the judges’ decisions, the innovator (the submitter of the winning idea), Lab technical advisor (a technical member of a national laboratory with relevant technical expertise for the call at hand), and industry partner collaborate to move the technology forward.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

More and more companies are inviting their employees to participate in company-wide ideation. 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. But with this opportunity comes new challenges.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2017

Most IdeaScale customers are using their innovation program to collaborate with their employees. We also found out that their passionate about SSO, Ideation, Moderation, and IdeaScale’s excellent security features. If you want to learn more from IdeaScale’s customer data, download the 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report.

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Planview

AUGUST 15, 2017

SDGInsights is one of many idea challenges open to the public the UN has ran since launching their ideation program, Unite Ideas. Why is the UN leveraging open ideation? Collaborating with the world. This is exactly what the UN is doing with their ideation program. This framework includes: High frequency ideation.

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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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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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InnovationManagement

APRIL 6, 2020

If you’re thinking about launching a crowdsourcing campaign to respond to some of these challenges brought about by COVID-19, now is a good time. The post Ideation in Times of Crisis appeared first on InnovationManagement. We are all learning so much right now and so quickly. And everyone wants to help, so let them.

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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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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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IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

They may also advise on innovation culture, ideation processes, and identification of new markets. Typically, they oversee risk management, collaborate with executive leadership, and may also work with vendors and other partners in developing new products. Innovation consultants earn around $97,000 per year. Chief Innovation Officer.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 21, 2019

From his background in crowdsourcing software as part of the open government initiative, Rob and co-founder Vivek Bhaskaran founded IdeaScale, which was promptly adopted by 23 federal agencies. Rob Hoehn started his crowdsourcing software career as part of the open government initiative in 2009.?. Lack of ideas isn’t usually a problem.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 21, 2025

Use Open Innovation to Access External Expertise Instead of relying solely on internal R&D, companies can collaborate with startups , universities, and research institutions to source breakthrough ideas. Crowdsourcing and co-development initiatives can further expand the pool of potential game-changing solutions.

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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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Viima

APRIL 17, 2023

There is a lot of buzz around open collaboration as a driver for innovation. A study shows that 85% of the top global brands have used crowdsourcing during the last decade. But is crowdsourcing truly effective to spur innovation?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

These tools and techniques enable ideation, validation, design-build and scaling. Then we moved into an era of technology-associated innovation These are building on a higher reliance on AI, Technology, and Digital approaches, connecting more to the customer and more collaborative across organizations.

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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. Start with this excellent video by Sprouts, an online organization dedicated to learning, science, and ideation. Lucidchart. MindMeister. MindMup is another free mind mapmaker.

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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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Imaginatik

JULY 14, 2016

Do we have clear methods for exploring new opportunity spaces, ideation and scaling our innovations? What we’ve found is a lot of companies begin with crowdsourcing and ideation, and quickly find that is not enough to fill significant growth gaps. Have we defined what successful innovation looks like?

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IdeaScale

MARCH 22, 2017

myCityInnovation initially invited the City’s 12,000 “wired” employees to share, collaborate, and test new ideas for improving City services. In this way, all ideators knew that their ideas were valued. Well, when myCityInnovation launched in May of 2016, Calgary didn’t just send out an email blast and call it good.

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

Achieve bigger innovation results through helping others learn and develop their innovation and ideation skill for the first time. Most have never learned the basics of ideation. Less than a half-day of effective training can make a big difference in helping people to generate more and better ideas for a crowdsourcing project.

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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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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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