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Idea Management: Learning When and How to Say “Enough”

IdeaScale

One of the main reasons why startups fail is that the founders are so fixated on their original idea that they will do everything they can to prove that they can make it work. How much better things would be if, upon realizing that an idea has flaws, teams corrected course instead of riding a sinking ship to the bottom of the ocean.

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3 Vital Idea Crowdsourcing Best Practices from the 2021 Suez Canal Obstruction

Qmarkets

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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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

Qmarkets

We recently caught up with Juan Fernando Correa, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. He tells us all about how his company gathers ideas using the Qmarkets platform and the process by which they decided to use it. J: Of course.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

Businesses looking to discover how to beat a recession with idea management and continuous improvement would also do well to adopt it. While this is often necessary, it should not be the only course taken – particularly as your competitors are likely doing exactly the same thing. portfolio scouting campaigns , etc. –

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management. What it is: Going by many names, this is the process by which a company can set a challenge that they want ideas for, and gather ideas from hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, both within their organisation and externally.

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Crowdsourcing with the Competition: Rewarding Venture or Precarious Proposition?

Qmarkets

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. The benefits of crowdsourcing are even more clear in the medical and pharmaceutical industry where breakthroughs could save lives. Of course, there are well-founded concerns too. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”

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Be Innovative if You Want to Drive Innovation

IdeaScale

An operations manager at a Fortune 500 hundred company recently asked me: “what are your thoughts on the best innovation ‘models’ to serve as guides for how individuals or teams can structure some of their thinking?”. Each has a set of required conditions for successful execution, and even when these are met some simply run their course.