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How to Improve Your Next Brainstorming Session

IdeaScale

Brainstorming sessions sound like a great idea, especially for breaking out of creative ruts, but too often brainstorming fizzles out. Simple team-building games or creativity exercises are great for breaking everyone out of their “business as usual” mindset so the ideas can flow. Warm the Group Up. Avoid Latching onto the First Idea.

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Understanding the Origins of Innovation

IdeaScale

The Main Ingredient in Crowdsourcing Is the Crowd. Great ideas can come from anywhere, and the main thing you need for productive crowdsourcing is the crowd itself. One potential problem is of a crowdsourcing project turning into a “popularity contest.” Here are some highlights of the discussion.

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FDA Transforms the Workplace with Innovation Challenges

IdeaScale

Five years ago, CDER launched a crowdsourcing program to make better use of its 4,500 employees, and the results have been extremely promising. Ascione and Taylor emphasized that what works best in the context of CDER is time-limited crowdsourcing challenges as opposed to open-ended initiatives. Importance of Time-Limited Challenges.

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Why is Diversity Important to Innovation

IdeaScale

Diversity and Crowdsourcing. This especially makes sense when you think about innovation in relation to crowdsourcing. But the wider pool of opinions and backgrounds that you have, the more likely you are to come up with some truly creative, innovative ideas. Making All Voices Count.

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Creating an Innovative Culture for Your Nonprofit Organization

IdeaScale

Packaging your offerings in creative ways. If you want to learn more about putting innovation and crowdsourcing to work in nonprofits, IdeaScale invites you to download our Crowdsourcing and Nonprofits white paper. Finding paying customers for your nonprofit. Exploring partnerships.

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How to Run a Hackathon that Spurs Real Innovation

IdeaScale

During the hackathon itself, teams create the magic and innovation, and it is the most exciting and creative phase. If you would like to learn more about creative ways to develop an innovation strategy, we invite you to download our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper.

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Part 2: Accelerating the impact of Innovation Campaigns

Values Centered Innovation

IT-based platforms for enabling innovation have variously been called idea management, crowdsourcing, or innovation management systems. The average number of crowdsourced innovation projects per year, over 13 industries, ranged from 7 (retail firms) to 17 (financial services firms). Download the full white paper.