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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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

I think with the recognition that innovation occurs across the whole organization the innovation management (IM) providers have to radically alter their business model or recognize they need to broaden out their target market inside organizations as innovation is occurring in all corners of the organization today.

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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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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. Who do we work with?

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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

APRIL 9, 2020

Idea management software is recognized as an innovative tool for helping organizations improve productivity, and when it comes to choosing the right platform, IdeaScale is leading the way. This occurs either within the company or through the use of crowdsourcing and presents more opportunities for bringing people together.

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Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

Here is where crowdsourcing comes in. In circumstances like this one, tools such as capacity planning, program management and statistical modeling are typically applied. Given the multitude of possible failure points and dependencies, therein lies the need for a new approach: crowdsourcing.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 24, 2020

We were heartened, also, to see that many of our customers and partners are taking this moment to look to their network for solutions and novel responses by launching COVID-19 crowdsourcing campaigns. Potential Prompts: How have you adapted your home environment to make it more comfortable, fun, and manageable?

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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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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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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].

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

This is an extremely common question for new customers looking to ensure that they can justify their investment in an innovation management platform by ensuring good participation volumes. Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives. enhanced collaboration via shared objectives, and 3.

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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 15, 2018

IdeaScale is offering innovators from around the world an extra week to complete their submission for the Innovation Management Awards. IdeaScale offers crowdsourcing software, because the higher quantity and the greater diversity between linked ideas and concepts, the better an innovation program performs.

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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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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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IdeaScale

JANUARY 1, 2020

Each year, IdeaScale meets with innovators from all over the globe who gather to share best practices on the management and delivery of ideas. For the past eight years, NASA has been running an internal crowdsourcing program with great success. How to Change the Culture of the Military with Crowdsourcing. What Is IdeaNation?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Moderators say it’s a powerful tool for employee engagement and collaboration. He was a brand marketing manager at TTi. 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.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Can we manage innovation the way many still are? We need to think this new digital innovation structure to have both internal disciplines in solutions but also designed for extended enterprise collaborations so “ecosystems of innovations” can finally take hold. I think not. Risks are actually rising not falling.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In fact, three out of five executives interviewed find this to be one of their top 5 challenges when managing their innovation pipeline. In doing so, I will discuss and highlight some of the key elements that are typically missing with those organizations claiming to have issues managing their pipeline initiatives.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Moving from innovation to execution calls for more than just a good idea; it needs tools like innovation management solutions to guide it. This is where an innovation management platform helps. Trailblazing Innovation management software helps you guide an idea in a way that makes sense for your strategy and your culture.

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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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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). It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers.

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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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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

APRIL 4, 2018

This year, QED won the Innovation Management award for best innovation realized. 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.

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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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IdeaScale

APRIL 15, 2020

During the COVID-19 crisis, an idea management platform is needed to facilitate even more sharing and collaboration as employees are forced to work from home. Reach out to your account manager for more information. IdeaScale provides the tools necessary to continue innovating in such an uncertain time. Steps IdeaScale Is Taking.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 18, 2020

link] Ironically, the same behaviours that fertilize ideas via innovation management can spread an infection that will endanger it. Whatever disruptive challenges your company is facing, it is important to remember that your crowdsourcing platform can help you find a solution.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Finally, well highlight the role of dedicated software in enabling organizations to manage and scale digital innovation effectively. Whether its streamlining supply chains, optimizing inventory management, or automating customer support, digital innovation helps organizations do more with less. What is Digital Innovation?

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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Whether you’re a startup founder, R&D leader, or innovation manager, the transition from concept to market-ready solution involves navigating a series of interconnected stages. At Ezassi, we specialize in helping organizations streamline the idea-to-implementation process with our suite of Innovation Management Products and Services.

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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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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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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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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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