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

MARCH 11, 2023

The research is clear: diversity drives innovation in the office and in your crowdsourced initiatives. Leaders play an important role in creating a culture that celebrates and encourages different backgrounds, [.]

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 10, 2021

Crowdsourcing helps you quickly gather a wealth of ideas that lead to positive change. Take advantage of IdeaScale’s innovation services to get the most out of your crowdsourcing experience. Crowdsourcing Approach. The approach to crowdsourcing is different for everyone. IdeaScale Innovation Services.

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IdeaScale

JULY 26, 2018

Avoid cultures where leaders say “don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions” – You WANT people to let you know when there are problems. The post Lessons About Culture and Creativity appeared first on IdeaScale. Where do all the ideas go (good and bad)?

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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

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. Rockets fly on crowdsourcing. Why NASA Crowdsources. How NASA uses crowdsourcing is instructive.

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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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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

That’s because they try to apply processes and structures that don’t fit their business strategies and cultures. They force crowdsourcing into their top-down decision-making cultures. Mix and match models to fit your unique culture. The post Organize innovation to fit your strategy & culture.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We asked our customers what their number one priority was for the coming year and the leading priority was: culture. Culture is the starting point for the success of all innovation programs and it is also a project that is never complete. Companies that want to impact engagement scores should work on building innovation culture.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 1, 2020

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. How to Change the Culture of the Military with Crowdsourcing. NASA’s Internal Crowd.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Simply saying, “We love innovation” is not enough to have a genuinely innovative culture. 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.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 22, 2017

After 69 years of growth, Dick’s is a great company ripe for crowdsourcing and they launched their first company-wide ideation platform last year. But how do we know that a company like Dick’s is a good fit for crowdsourcing? Well, here are a few qualities that make a company more likely to succeed in a crowdsourcing effort.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Did you know innovation can bridge social, cultural, and political differences? 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. Top 5 Women Innovators of All Time.

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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. But crowdsourcing has moved far beyond merely collecting money.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 7, 2017

A large scale transformational process that is comprised of strategic, organizational and socio-cultural changes as the second part. However, there are some proven measures with high impact on revenue growth, cost and time savings and improved effects on customer satisfaction – one of them Open Innovation (also known as crowdsourcing).

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2020

Benefits of crowdsourcing: Common Misconceptions In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. Some of the reasons for the slow adoption of crowdsourcing are rooted in the very nature of the method.

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

There will be hack-a-thons, crowdsourcing, open innovation, encouragement of "wild ideas", pizza parties and a host of other short term activities leading to a small subset of interesting ideas. Until and unless we focus on the culture first and foremost, no firm or team will be successful at innovating.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

I often see first-time innovators bit by the crowdsourcing bug, and they come to us to scratch that itch. “I I heard about this crowdsourcing thing. No sincere commitment from the top down to a true culture change. The same is true of an organizational culture change. In that same vein, no thinking past ideation.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 20, 2021

According to their research, the ideal process would be transparent and ambitious, aiming for larger changes in the campus and its culture. Yet, it also found the university needed something at a larger scale with a broader scope, ideally, that brought together faculty, students, and administration.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 14, 2020

Of course, in the case of tools like open innovation and crowdsourcing, you might want the perspective of customers and clients on what they need and want. Common examples of outsourcing in innovation include crowdsourcing, platform design and implementation, data collection and analysis, auditing, and testing.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They came to discuss how crowdsourcing ideas is changing their organizations and to learn best practices from each other. Wing Tang of IKEA sat for a fireside interview (the fire was projected) with IdeaScale CEO Rob Hoehn to talk about how the spirit of inclusion that drives their crowdsourcing efforts.

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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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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 8, 2018

Open innovation and crowdsourcing take closed doors and open them. This necessitates a dramatic change in the corporate culture from secrecy to openness. For centuries dockers or longshoremen stowed separate cargoes into ships’ holds. Containers transformed this system. Now they throw out challenges on sites like Innocentive.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Trailblazing Innovation management software helps you guide an idea in a way that makes sense for your strategy and your culture. You can even use the platform to draw on ideas from outside the company, such as crowdsourcing, open innovation, and collaborating with clients directly. Draw on your entire pool of talent.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 13, 2019

There has also been cultural reporting bias in favor of male inventors, despite the countless female innovators involved in some of the biggest technological advances in history. Female innovators are nothing new, but perhaps they will get more credit for their work as communication technology and cultural norms change.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 15, 2020

A 2017 survey revealed 57 percent of company leaders reported difficulties fostering an internal culture of experimentation and innovation. As the largest cloud-based innovation software platform in the world, we continue to provide a means of global innovation through crowdsourcing and idea-sharing. IdeaScale has more than 4.5

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Qmarkets

JULY 31, 2023

Together, we will help businesses across Asia implement continuous improvement processes and nurture an innovation culture to drive efficiencies, build resilience and unlock growth potential. OmniStrada and Qmarkets will provide businesses with a proven solution to continuously find and implement new ideas. That’s where we come in.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The convergence of experience within these multi-disciplinary fields helped approach the policing innovations with cultural awareness and worldly perspective. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2018

It’s a closed form of crowdsourcing that can inform your internal innovation strategy. It is important organizations have a transparent culture that will help employees seek proper guidance. Learn more: Hacker’s Guide to Culture Management. If something unusual comes up do you know, whom to approach for the solution?

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Planview

JUNE 19, 2019

To keep up with the modern professional landscape, companies must create an innovation culture that constantly looks for new ways to meet the needs of the customer. One way to do that is through crowdsourced innovation. In this article, we’re going to look at crowdsourced innovation and how it can enhance your organization.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Defining and achieving concrete improvements in organizational culture and employee performance is a challenge for organizations of all types. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. — This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Our attitude towards failure is an evolving concept and it also varies a lot depending on the country, the culture, and the individual. So if you’re crowdsourcing new ideas from your employees, how do you communicate to them that failure is not something that they should fear? It can be very frightening. Highlight Lessons Learned.

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

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 1, 2016

When I joined IdeaScale in late spring of this year, I set out to discover how I could help our customers create and maintain an innovative culture at their company through our crowdsourcing tools. For instance, most of our customers believe they are purchasing a crowdsourcing platform — and they are.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. Company Innovation priorities for 2017 (in order of importance): Building a culture of innovation. Improve employee engagement. Gather more ideas. Implement breakthrough ideas.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2020

Why aren’t organizations recognizing the benefits of crowdsourcing? In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. However, many companies still struggle to match crowdsourcing to their specific requirements.

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