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What Kind of Company is a Good Fit for Crowdsourcing?

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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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A Look Back at Crowdsourced Innovation in 2020

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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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Crowdsourcing Ways to Save Students Money

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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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Why Aren’t You Crowdsourcing?

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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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Innovation Department Best Practices: A Talk with Peter Berger

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Ideation: “What’s Our Unfair Advantage?”. The ideation process will clearly be different depending on the type of parent organization. Ideation in the health and beauty industry will be different from ideation in the shipbuilding industry. Push the boundaries, but don’t forget where your competitive advantages are.

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What Kind of Company is a Good Fit for Crowdsourcing?

IdeaScale

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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Common Innovation Pitfalls

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In that same vein, no thinking past ideation. 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. Problem is, ideation — or the simple posting of and voting on the crowd’s ideas — is only the first step.