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

JULY 5, 2017

Last year Gartner published an article entitled “ The 5 Most Effective, Least Used Digital Innovation Hacks ” which listed crowdsourcing, differentiated funding, differentiated metrics, startup innovation, and formal innovation management. Here are some of the most commonly cited benefits of crowdsourced innovation management.

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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.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 1, 2020

Learn how to establish a foundation as a new department from the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Mousetrap team. 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.

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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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Crowdsourcing Collaboration Engagement Resources 100

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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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. Measuring innovation in ecosystems has real differences.

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InnovationManagement

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The post What Can We Learn About Crowdsourcing in a Pandemic from NASA? At NASA, the entire NASA workforce expressed their desire to help the nation combat the virus – even though most of their employees were asked to work from home. appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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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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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives. One of the most interesting things I learned was how individuals within teams perform better as individuals when incentives are offered for the team as a whole. enhanced collaboration via shared objectives, and 3.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Learn how to get those creative juices flowing with tools such as: Google Docs Visual Thesaurus Coggle and more. 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.

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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. Nor has the dust settled yet.

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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

“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? Great views, opinions and contributions have been building in a very methodical way.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

You can even use the platform to draw on ideas from outside the company, such as crowdsourcing, open innovation, and collaborating with clients directly. All of this allows you to keep the materials as lessons learned going forward, so the solution to internal and external challenges is at your fingertips.

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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. To learn more about QED’s award-winning efforts, download the case study today!

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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. To learn more about the City of Calgary and their myCityInnovation program, download their case study. . They launched a full internal multi-channel marketing strategy.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

It’s a great opportunity not just to learn from some of the leading innovators globally, but also a great chance to connect and have fun. Crowdsourcing is powerful and when you’ve had some success with it, you want to adopt it in other places, as well. But crowdsourcing is a tool for specific challenges.

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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 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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IdeaScale

MARCH 6, 2019

Many law enforcement agencies are turning to new technologies like body cameras and license plate readers, and as they choose and adopt technologies, they must also allot the necessary time so officers can learn how to use them. IdeaScale invites you to learn more by downloading our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The Mayors traveled to the United States from Brazil to learn about innovations in community policing. They wanted learn new techniques and practices to reduce traffic deaths, combat violence, and improve their local communities. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine.

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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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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. To learn about how open innovation platforms work, request a demo today!

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We are in an ever-increasing engaged world of collaborators and customer feedbacks to build concept designs, test prototype reactions, investigate product use and explore customer satisfaction, all helping to improve product application and deliver closer to customer needs or provide evolution in innovation application.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Well, every year we ask our customers what it is that they would most like to learn about in order to support their programs. So these are the categories that we learn from and try to celebrate. And finally, the true proof of an organization’s innovation capability is in delivering ideas and learning from them. Implementation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Increased integration with other business tools, such as project management and collaboration software. Greater use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate tasks and provide more intelligent recommendations. Project management: Allows teams to track the progress of projects and collaborate with others.

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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

JUNE 6, 2018

We know there’s a relationship diversity and innovation and the Romanian Food Festival reminded how much I have to learn from people around me who can take ideas that I have and make them new or more powerful. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine.

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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. Learn more about how you can tap into this innovative community.

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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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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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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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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. To learn more about innovation and leadership, join our newsletter today! Do more than just lead your team.

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