IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Knowing that they had a wealth of knowledge within their campus network, the steering committee and the working group launched a crowdsourcing campaign to their students asking for ways to reduce costs that would help the President meet his commitment. The post Crowdsourcing Ways to Save Students Money appeared first on IdeaScale.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 14, 2016

But little noted was that Gates was pioneering crowdsourcing in healthcare … and that it worked. As you can see, in healthcare, crowdsourcing is not about individual patients, but instead about larger problems. Crowdsourcing only works if it catches the attention of a crowd, after all. Challenges And Rewards.

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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

JULY 5, 2017

Last year Gartner published an article entitled “ The 5 Most Effective, Least Used Digital Innovation Hacks ” which listed crowdsourcing, differentiated funding, differentiated metrics, startup innovation, and formal innovation management. Here are some of the most commonly cited benefits of crowdsourced innovation management.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 20, 2018

That’s made schools of all levels and the wider education industry that supports them a fruitful ground for crowdsourcing approaches. Three schools, in particular, have used crowdsourcing to make changes for the good of students. Now Columbia uses crowdsourcing to listen and act, making the school the best it can be.

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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. Solution Finding.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Learn how universities are using crowdsourcing. Here’s how crowdsourcing can push innovation further, from major studies to brainstorming tools. Here’s how crowdsourcing can push innovation further, from major studies to brainstorming tools. Crowdsourcing In Academia. Effective Crowdsourcing.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re working on a crowdsourced innovation program, one of the key challenges is finding a way to make participants care about the outcome, but with nonprofit crowdsourced innovation programs , the purpose and outcomes are more readily apparent – you’ll help that organization achieve that goal better, faster, or more broadly.

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Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

Here is where crowdsourcing comes in. Given the multitude of possible failure points and dependencies, therein lies the need for a new approach: crowdsourcing. Because crowdsourcing accommodates a very large amount of success/failure scenarios to estimate when the innovation program reaches commercial viability.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2018

A lot of crowdsourced innovation programs will tell you to offer incentives to your community of participants in order to drive engagement – but sometimes that’s a challenge for organization either because of budget restrictions or company regulations. The post Align Innovation Incentives to Goals appeared first on IdeaScale.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 6, 2019

You can download a summary of the QPS iCOP initiative here. IdeaScale invites you to learn more by downloading our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper. Perhaps most importantly, however, staff satisfaction “innovation enabler” measures increased measurably over the course of 12 months.

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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. Download this infographic to see a few more. In that same vein, no thinking past ideation. How can I get me some?” Those are just a few of the most common ones I see.

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IdeaScale

JULY 2, 2019

If you would like to learn more, we invite you to download our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper. Failure may never roll off us like water off a duck’s back, but there are ways to know the right time to pull the plug on an idea that isn’t working out and still use the lessons learned to power future innovation.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 25, 2019

If you’re interested in ways to spur creativity in general, we invite you to download our free “How to Get Creative” infographic for inspiration. We invite you to learn more by downloading our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper.

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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. To learn more about QED’s award-winning efforts, download the case study today!

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

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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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

And if you’re not investing in communications, then you’re not maximizing the value of your crowdsourced innovation community. Download IdeaScale’s set of outreach best practices, which includes examples from successful innovation engagement email campaigns. . That’s when you see the real return on investment.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 22, 2019

If you’d like to learn more, we invite you to download our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper. IdeaScale makes innovation management software that allows companies to do exactly this, so organizations can gather, assess, prioritize, and move forward with ideas that will change how people do business and live their lives.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 15, 2019

To learn more about diversity in innovation, download our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper. A diverse and talented innovation team will keep your company not just innovative, but thriving, as the world becomes more complex and demands more of all of us.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 13, 2019

How innovation is accomplished is changing too, and IdeaScale invites you to download our white paper on crowdsourcing and technology to learn how crowdsourcing improves speed-to-market while reducing R&D costs. The post Top 5 Women Innovators of All Time appeared first on IdeaScale.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Their presentation at Open Nation this year was regarded as one of the favorite (and most useful presentations), because presenter Commander Andy Howell was great at articulating the fact that crowdsourcing communities sit at the intersection of continuous innovation and learning.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 24, 2017

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? To learn more about the importance of our attitude toward failure, download this infographic. Well, you start by changing your organization’s attitude to failure.

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IdeaScale

JULY 31, 2018

Crowdsourcing ideas allows you to ask for signals (like emerging trends) from your crowd, but also empowers that crowd to make suggestions and share ideas that will drive the business forward. To learn more about innovation in the financial sector, download our complimentary infographic on the subject.

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IdeaScale

JULY 24, 2018

To learn more about NYU’s AMC crowdsourcing initiative, download the case study here! Mike McCaw, Chairperson of the NYU Administrative Management Council. The post Avoiding Groupthink and Empowering Introverts appeared first on IdeaScale.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Along those same lines, getting to market faster, specifically through using crowdsourcing to accelerate innovation, can save you money on both the front and back end of development. In order to stand out, you must do everything you can to expedite the process of innovating in order to be the first to market. Get to Save and Make Money.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Use your challenges to grow participation, and always keep your radar on for some problem in your organization that could benefit from crowdsourcing. It’s extremely fun and rewarding to offer some techniques like crowdsourcing and human centered design to get discussion of the ground.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 7, 2019

If this sounds like a concept that’s relevant to your organization, IdeaScale invites you to download our free Crowdsourcing and Technology white paper today. IdeaScale is there to, as Josh Folk puts it, deploy “the necessary systems and processes for ideas to be captured, connected, developed, and thrive.”

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IdeaScale

MARCH 21, 2017

Businesses, even startups, are able to get ideas to market using a different process which includes crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and implementation only after the market is proven. To use open innovation in your organization, you first must shift the mindset of the leadership and stakeholders to understand the crowdsourcing mindset.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 17, 2018

Well, there are two very important things that need to happen to make your crowdsourced innovation community a success. For more ideas about what to address in your next innovation campaign, download our infographic here. . You’ve got some new ideas! But now what? First, you need to make sure to implement ideas.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 16, 2019

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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IdeaScale

MARCH 7, 2017

As you sift through the crowdsourcing, internal ideas, and feedback data, consider that although feedback is individual, some of the ideas might build upon each other or be related in some way. Crowdsourcing is a great way to gain ideas for your innovation project. Once you’ve identified your innovation focus, create a campaign.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 26, 2019

IdeaScale encourages you to download our Crowdsourcing and Healthcare white paper to learn more about exciting new directions in healthcare innovation management. The biggest challenge is in healthcare innovation management or making sure new technologies are put to their best uses. The post What Does Healthcare Innovation Entail?

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IdeaScale

MARCH 31, 2020

Download our Crowdsourcing and Healthcare white paper , and join our newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest information. At least 35 have been developed so far, a number which will continue to rise as new tools are available. Want to know more about innovation in the healthcare industry? appeared first on IdeaScale.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2017

If you want to learn more from IdeaScale’s customer data, download the 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report. Based on this criteria, IdeaScale found that only 18% of companies are operating at this top tier, but that companies are slowly improving their innovation skill sets and becoming more sophisticated over time.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 21, 2019

From his background in crowdsourcing software as part of the open government initiative, Rob and co-founder Vivek Bhaskaran founded IdeaScale, which was promptly adopted by 23 federal agencies. Rob Hoehn started his crowdsourcing software career as part of the open government initiative in 2009.?.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Standard Bank’s Water4Africa Challenge is a great example of crowdsourcing for social good. Innovating For Social Good with Crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing requires some planning. Here are some important tips to make crowdsourcing work for your organization: Use the Right Technology. Pick the Right Rewards.

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