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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Destination Innovation

JULY 13, 2016

How are firms using crowdsourcing? Ideascale have published a white paper on crowdsourcing which you can download. This is when you use crowdsourcing to find the solution to a difficult or complex problem. This is when you use crowdsourcing to find the solution to a difficult or complex problem. Design Competitions.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 8, 2017

Crowdsourcing is the practice of asking a large number of people, usually using the internet as the medium, what they perceive as problems within an organization, municipality, or non-governmental civic organization. Crowdsourcing can take many forms. IdeaScale is a platform which allows crowdsourcing to take place.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ecosystem co-operations can allow you to align with others, totally outside your existing relationships, so you can enter new markets, explore new concepts and design, that would have been impossible as an individual organization. Ecosystems are unique in design, relationships and the environment that surrounds them.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2018

As an innovation strategist at IdeaScale, I focus on helping our clients think creatively about how best to engage their crowd and leverage the wisdom of the crowd to source ideas for new products and services and improve processes. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We are seeing many digitally aware organizations like Apple, Amazon, Salesforce all recognizing their future innovation is reliant on innovation and digital to be tied at the hip, wedded together in a design that builds towards satisfying customer needs. Embedded software is becoming more important in value than the physical product.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This is where crowdsourcing comes into play, allowing businesses to reach out directly to consumers for ideas, feedback, and even design of certain products. If you’ve never run a crowdsourcing project before, it can seem a bit daunting. It’s important to understand just how communication helps your crowdsourcing project.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This is where crowdsourcing comes into play, allowing businesses to reach out directly to consumers for ideas, feedback, and even design of certain products. If you’ve never run a crowdsourcing project before, it can seem a bit daunting. It’s important to understand just how communication helps your crowdsourcing project.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 14, 2020

Isn’t innovation supposed to be about tapping the potential of your employees while engaging with them on a creative level? 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. More availability of tools designed for innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

So, I want to explain the importance of shifting our thinking towards designing innovation ecosystems. Multiple alerts to market changes, conditions and customers’ needs can stimulate a growing adaptability and solution design, more modular or progressive in response. Greater potential for sustainability and social impact.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 6, 2017

Get everyone on board with crowdsourcing. Why do companies resist crowdsourcing? It’s a tough question, and if you’re looking to boost crowdsourcing as a solution, it can seem a tough obstacle to overcome. By far the biggest obstacle crowdsourcing faces is that for many companies, it’s unexplored turf.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. The process was designed to bring in and launch as many ideas as possible, built on the IdeaScale platform. This became particularly important when the COVID pandemic impacted the campus, leading to rapid change.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 11, 2020

IdeaScale has recently acquired Betterific, a crowdsourcing platform that engages a community of 18,000+ creative problem solvers, design thinkers, and ideators to help you come up with your next big idea. The post The Three Challenges of Crowdsourced Innovation appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future. The need is for a very fluid, dynamic, constantly evolving approach to design and solutions. We need to put to use a different innovation model or approach.

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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. Thinking through and employing an incentivization program commensurate with that diversity will help maximize and maintain engagement. In that same vein, no thinking past ideation.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Innovation is advancing but most of it has been designed for a different time, the old era of stable markets, predictable solutions and having a clear sense of your competition.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We recently caught up with Juan Fernando Correa, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. That’s why I’ve been engaging with the Qmarkets platform, to enable anyone at the company to bring forward new and interesting ideas for innovation in mining.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The building blocks of open innovation building towards Business Ecosystem design. Crowdsourced Innovation Challenges: Description: Design and launch innovation challenges that involve a broader network, inviting external contributors to solve specific business problems or contribute novel ideas.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Crowdsourcing in the military? After having attended Open Nation in 2017, strategist, innovator and designer Andy Howell tweeted about a new acronym he learned: BORPSAT (Bunch Of the Right People Sitting Around a Table). Is your innovation strategy working? Convincing the Grand Poobah. A Legacy of Innovation.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 6, 2019

Officers must be prepared to engage with the public in a variety of ways, and non-enforcement staff must be ready to take care of all back-office processes so that officers can do their jobs effectively and efficiently. IdeaScale invites you to learn more by downloading our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 9, 2017

Gamification can take a number of forms, and draw from a number of tropes, especially when combined with crowdsourcing. And it absolutely works; it’s been found that gamification can increase engagement by up to 20%, regardless of the audience. A well-designed gamification strategy can super-charge innovation if done right.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

When should it be used: Any company which has or is thinking of building an Innovation Team / Department / Lab / Skunkworks should be aware of this concept of Dual Innovation and make sure your teams have the skills and permission to engage in it. 10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2019

The man who invented escape artistry had layers of safeguards, carefully chosen designs, and expert tricks that removed risk factors and unnecessary dangers from his performances. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look before you jump; instead, follow the example of Houdini. Do more than just lead your team. Collaboration.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

Their approach to solutions are designed to keep strategy visible and continuously aligned with operational execution throughout the initiative life cycle and in my opinion that becomes vital to push as hard as they can. It is a very fragmented market, constrained by the existing designs in place.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

In fact, research shows that companies hosting regular hackathons see significant gains in employee engagement, faster prototyping, and fresh, actionable ideas. But behind every successful hackathon lies the right platform—one designed to streamline collaboration, track ideas, and manage participants efficiently.

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Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

The concept of crowdsourcing, coined by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson in a 2006 Wired article , has revolutionized how businesses and organizations solve problems and innovate. In this article, we’ll explore how businesses are using crowdsourcing to drive innovation. What is Crowdsourcing?

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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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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Ezassi’s Idea Management Software fosters creativity both internally and externally by engaging employees, partners, and customers in the process. Ezassi’s Challenge-as-a-Service is designed to address these barriers. Understanding the Idea-to-Implementation Process 1. Generating and Refining Ideas Innovation begins with ideation.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 25, 2019

When that happens, people go into brainstorming sessions feeling they’re about to engage in a time-wasting exercise. Have a Designated Note-Taker. We invite you to learn more by downloading our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper. The key is to have the right brainstorming tools in your kit.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

At Flying Fish Lab, we follow a few Crowdsourcing Design Principles to raise the chances of success. Share with us your challenge, and we will transform that into a focused and engaging crowdsourcing brief.

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Planview

APRIL 11, 2019

Polaris Industries’ crowdsourcing case study is inspiring people both internally and externally—and their story is still relevant today. It was always obvious to leaders at Polaris that there were untapped opportunities to crowdsource groundbreaking ideas from employees across the company. Transparent crowdsourcing.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

At its core, open innovation is a collaborative process designed to tap into a wider pool of expertise, which drives faster innovation and lowers the risks and costs associated with new product development. Companies should select the most suitable model for their needs, such as joint ventures, partnerships, or crowdsourcing platforms.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The basics of innovation still form around building the engagement, leadership, and involvement , in constructing a culture, the climate and environment needed , so as to allow innovation to evolve and thrive. Then there is that need for a constant investment in people , in our networks and relationships , that all need to come together.

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