IdeaScale

JUNE 15, 2017

Open innovation vs. crowdsourcing can be a tough call. What’s the difference between crowdsourcing and open innovation? Crowdsourcing Vs. Open Innovation. With open innovation, you might reach out to your entire company, and sometimes friendly rivals in the same industry, to share ideas and get perspective on something.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 10, 2019

The average number of years a company spends on the Fortune 500 list is dropping. Fifty years ago, a company on the Fortune 500 list could expect to stay there for 33 years, but by 1990, that tenure had shrunk to 20 years. How companies balance their “innovation portfolios” is also important.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Though crowdsourcing has recently gained popularity in many industries across the world, it’s not necessarily intuitive for it to be part of healthcare. However, crowdsourcing has begun to have a notable impact in the health sphere, such as in patient diagnosis, engagement, and more. Crowdsourcing vs. Outsourcing.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Crowdsourcing is a favored method of gathering data for product innovation. Companies use crowdsourcing for product innovation and focus groups for market research to gather the most relevant and useful data. Could using one or both of these methods of data collection be helpful to your company?

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Crowdsourcing is the act of harnessing the power and work force of a crowd to accomplish a task. Lately, companies creating documentation for APIs have turned to crowdsourcing. Instead of companies hiring an entire documentation team, all that’s needed is one person to edit contributions. Advantages. Disadvantages.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Internal crowdsourcing can change how you do business.?. Internal crowdsourcing corrals problems, ideas, and solutions at your place of work or in your industry in one central location. Why Implement Internal Crowdsourcing? Internal crowdsourcing fosters the exchange of ideas among employees. PDT, Thursday, Sept.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 3, 2017

Don’t get frustrated with your crowdsourcing campaign. Crowdsourcing and open innovation are great ideas. Too many ideas fall into a crowdsourcing gap, so here are the problems to avoid. By far the biggest problem is people have an idea and decide, vaguely, to throw crowdsourcing at the problem. Unfocused Strategy.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 11, 2017

Fast forward to today: employees can share their opinions, come up with ideas, and help the company in the promotion of a product. This is what crowdsourced innovation management is about and below are the 5 advantages of crowdsourced innovation management. The good thing about crowdsourcing is you can minimize your costs.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The crowd you source from doesn’t have to be outside the company. Crowdsourcing is just one facet of innovation strategy. So, if crowdsourcing doesn’t work for your specific issue, here’s how to bolster innovation without it. Any company worth its salt has a good relationship with its customers.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 21, 2017

Why is crowdsourcing right for you? Many people tend to view crowdsourcing, internal or external, and internal teamwork as either/or propositions; one tends to be the backup for the other. The reality, though, is that there’s only so many viewpoints that can be in a corporate team, even in the most diverse company.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Crowdsourcing is quickly evolving and gaining notoriety in the business world. According to a study performed by the company Eyeka in 2014, in the past 10 years, 85% of the top global brands have used crowdsourcing efforts within their company. The quicker information is received, the quicker companies can interpret it.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Smart crowdsourcing yields successful product development. Fortunately, crowdsourcing tools allow the innovation process to involve consumers every step of the way. From toy companies to coffee to hotels, here are brands that leveraged crowdsourcing to encourage innovation. Need a better product? Ask your customers!

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2019

A new innovation in the digital marketing sphere is the idea of using crowdsourcing to generate or test marketing ideas. With the advent of the use of crowdsourcing for digital marketing, this can truly become a two-way street. Benefits of Crowdsourcing. Efficiency. This saves your firm unquantifiable amounts of time and money.

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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

APRIL 6, 2021

Crowdsourcing can influence innovation. According to a 2017 survey, 86% of companies who incorporate crowdsourcing in the workplace cite employee engagement as a top priority. Data gathered from IdeaScale’s innovation communities provides benchmarks and insights for innovators creating new crowdsourced innovation programs.

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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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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 9, 2021

Overview: The value of crowdsourcing is that you can find ideas in the most unusual of places. These five, in particular, might surprise you and offer guidance for your crowdsourcing strategy. He quickly pitched the idea to the company’s internal platform , and engineers assembled a prototype. The Solar-Powered Wheelchair.

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IdeaScale

MAY 14, 2019

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Most businesses understand the importance of crowdsourcing, and as a result, are implementing it into their business plans. Decentralization.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 10, 2021

For example, research shows the COVID-19 pandemic sped up the digital transformation, with companies reporting they are three times likelier to conduct at least 80% of customer interactions online. Crowdsourcing helps you quickly gather a wealth of ideas that lead to positive change. Crowdsourcing Approach.

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HYPE Innovation

MAY 18, 2023

For decades, c rowdsourcing has been a n important idea-generation method for many companies. If carried out well , crowdsourcing u nit es the "crowd" in pursuit of the common goal of gathering cutting-edge innovation knowledge and insights.

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HYPE Innovation

MAY 18, 2023

For decades, c rowdsourcing has been a n important idea-generation method for many companies. If carried out well , crowdsourcing u nit es the "crowd" in pursuit of the common goal of gathering cutting-edge innovation knowledge and insights.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 26, 2018

Every spring at IdeaScale, we start receiving requests from undergraduate and graduate students around the globe who are researching crowdsourcing and its potential application in the business world. But we thought we’d document some of the most common questions below to tell you what you need to know about crowdsourcing.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Some innovative companies take a centralized approach to innovation, while others choose a decentralized method. Research shows 30% of companies utilize one unit to control and drive innovation, while 35% report research results are passed … Continued.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

Ideascale and Betterific announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform. Innovation is increasingly the lifeblood of vital companies.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 11, 2023

The research is clear: diversity drives innovation in the office and in your crowdsourced initiatives. Companies that prioritize diversity and inclusion have access to a greater range of perspectives and experiences, which leads to more creative solutions and faster growth.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 23, 2020

The company served a variety of organizations to include the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Hoehn wanted companies and government organizations to be able to gather, transform, and prioritize ideas through crowdsourcing. We are a bootstrapped company, meaning our customers are our investors.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Though crowdsourcing has recently gained popularity in many industries across the world, it’s not necessarily intuitive for it to be part of healthcare. However, crowdsourcing has begun to have a notable impact in the health sphere, such as in patient diagnosis, engagement, and more. Crowdsourcing vs. Outsourcing.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 12, 2017

And NASA has taken one of its first steps into its own new frontier: Crowdsourcing. The Crowdsourcing Frontier. NASA’s reluctance to crowdsource in the past has largely been a product of its culture. Some of NASA’s biggest crowdsourcing initiatives have been tied to its desire to know more about the Solar System.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

Ideascale and Betteriffic announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform. Innovation is increasingly the lifeblood of vital companies.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It’s about a tech CEO, played by Jeremy Piven, who builds a crowdsourcing platform to help find his daughter’s killer. As an Innovation Strategist at a company that also built a platform that specializes in crowdsourcing, I found the show’s premise intriguing. Crowdsourcing and open innovation aren’t famine or feast.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 8, 2021

In recent years, the concept of crowdsourcing has become an increasingly common tool used in response to large scale crises and world events. From the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 to the Covid-19 solutions marketplace in Israel last year, crowdsourcing has been proven as an effective way to gather solutions and solve problems.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

People in the company always bring up my story to show that product ideas can come from anyone,” Stearns said. The mister became one of the fastest product launches the company ever had. He leveraged his own expertise to create the company’s first purely social marketing campaign for the mister. It changed his life.

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Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

Increasingly we find that companies want to go beyond idea collection to rigorously vet these ideas against barriers to implementation, in order to develop the most robust ideas quickly. Here is where crowdsourcing comes in. The company was stuck with a big budget number but left many revenue questions unanswered.

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HYPE Innovation

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

One such way is the concept of 'crowdsourcing.' In an era when garnering the assistance of venture capitalists is increasingly difficult, due to tremendous competition, crowdsourcing can often be used to get a company or idea off the ground without that elusive help. It's now a viable way to innovate.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2018

Focusing on the future can be difficult, but it is worthwhile: companies that manage for the long term outperform their peers with increased revenue, earnings, and market capitalization.”. Here are few scenario based campaign suggestions: What might our company look like in 5-10 years? Want to learn more?

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IdeaScale

MAY 18, 2021

Until 2020, we’d see core innovation, where companies look for efficiency and new ideas in their internal processes and approaches, as the leading approach. The remaining 62% was evenly split between transformational change and adjacent change, where companies ask for new ways to use their existing resources and tools.

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