IdeaScale

JUNE 24, 2020

For example, perhaps the unifying factor … Continued. The post Best Practices for Engaging Your Innovation Community appeared first on IdeaScale. Here’s how to bring your community together and work toward a common goal. Know Your Community Start by truly understanding who your innovation community is.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

When participation from your crowd is critical to your innovation program, you’ve got to have a multi-channel engagement strategy that works. Amway’s video clearly demonstrates the value of participating in Amway’s crowdsourced innovation community – not only does it make a company better, it helps employees build their careers.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 11, 2017

This is what crowdsourced innovation management is about and below are the 5 advantages of crowdsourced innovation management. This is why it is important to not only treat and pay employees well but also make them feel they are valued – and this crowdsourced innovation can offer that. Improved Employee Sentiment.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 12, 2017

You will likely engage your experts and authorities at the earliest stages or your program through discussion. This is the whole idea of crowdsourcing: to gather and synthesize the input of many minds! It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. This is a good thing!

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Not every innovation program has developed the communications skill set necessary to engage a global workforce or customer base in sharing ideas, developing ideas, and collaborating. And if you’re not investing in communications, then you’re not maximizing the value of your crowdsourced innovation community.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Crowdsourcing is just one facet of innovation strategy. So, if crowdsourcing doesn’t work for your specific issue, here’s how to bolster innovation without it. The micro plane is a great example. There needs to be room in your organization to experiment, to engage in small projects, and test out ideas.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Crowdsourcing is quickly evolving and gaining notoriety in the business world. According to a study performed by the company Eyeka in 2014, in the past 10 years, 85% of the top global brands have used crowdsourcing efforts within their company. Interacting digitally through crowdsourcing is the quickest way this can be done.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

This article explores what value innovation is, how it fits within blue ocean strategy, and real-world examples of how companies apply it. Examples of Value Innovation Traditional car ownership requires a large upfront investment, ongoing maintenance costs, and eventual depreciation. Heres another example.

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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. Here are the ways that are identified in the paper which also contains many examples and links: 1. This is when you use crowdsourcing to find the solution to a difficult or complex problem. Solution Finding.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 19, 2022

However, the data from crowdsourcing needs to be balanced against other expertise, so health professionals need to participate in these crowds and help guide them. Now patients have another option, using social media networks, podcasts , and other tools to crowdsource. And what engages them? Health In An Interconnected World.

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IdeaScale

MAY 14, 2019

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Most businesses understand the importance of crowdsourcing, and as a result, are implementing it into their business plans. Decentralization.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 21, 2021

Our infographic explores when you should collect data with surveys versus developing ideas with crowdsourcing. Surveys sample from a specific group: The only people who take a survey are generally those you ask to take it, and often only the most engaged out of that particular group. Using Surveys With Crowdsourcing.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Though crowdsourcing has recently gained popularity in many industries across the world, it’s not necessarily intuitive for it to be part of healthcare. However, crowdsourcing has begun to have a notable impact in the health sphere, such as in patient diagnosis, engagement, and more. Crowdsourcing vs. Outsourcing.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Whether applied internally with employees or externally through crowdsourcing , the ideation process helps organizations turn creativity into meaningful outcomes, positioning them for long-term success. Unlike spontaneous brainstorming, a formal ideation process ensures that ideas are captured, organized, and systematically reviewed.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Moderators say it’s a powerful tool for employee engagement and collaboration. He says surprising things happen when you pull together a multidisciplinary group to crowdsource ideas. Stearns’ story is a great example of this sort of crowdsourced product development. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 29, 2021

Wisconsin, for example, has a lot of custard shops. Yet another person says "innovation" and means crowdsourcing and employee engagement systems. So that a small innovation to improve employee morale is as important as a new R&D project to discover new technologies, or a crowdsourced idea to create a new product.

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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.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 28, 2020

The IdeaScale software is primarily used to crowdsource ideas. For example, an organization leader may look to a specific department or team for ideas about a new initiative, but could receive more robust feedback by reaching out to different departments or even customers for new ideas. Success through Customer Involvem ent.

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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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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. Why Should I Outsource Innovation?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 19, 2017

You have likely heard the classic example : if many people estimate the weight of an ox, and they are all somewhat off the mark, as long as they are quite diverse in their approach, the crowd overall can come up with an accurate estimate for the ox’s weight. Conversely, it will also determine the people who choose not to engage.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 9, 2020

It only took me six years as a crowdsourcing practitioner, but I finally got around to reading “The Wisdom of Crowds,” one of the flagship books in our industry. He opens the book with an example most of us know: the crowd that guessed the weight of an ox at a country fair within a pound. Everyone has some wisdom to offer.

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Planview

MARCH 20, 2019

However, for this culture to exist, employee engagement is imperative. A culture of innovation relies on employee engagement and a shared vision for a company’s success. Over the last 15 years, organizations have invested $100 billion annually to improve employee engagement with little success. Unfortunately, most aren’t.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This is our fifth annual award series and we honor winners in three categories: best innovation engagement strategy, best innovation process, and best innovation. Engagement. Every year we celebrate entrants who have demonstrated creativity and results in their engagement strategy. Why did we pick the categories that we did?

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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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Planview

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Scott Raskin, CEO at Spigit, recently wrote an article for HR Daily Advisor that covered five key drivers for employee engagement, and how crowdsourced innovation can help. The reality is, traditional employee engagement tools – surveys, for example – are not effective. Key takeaways.

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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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IdeaScale

JULY 11, 2018

This tenet underpins most of crowdsourcing and all open innovation programs. We started out with an example from an IdeaScale community. And if this marketer hadn’t shared their idea in a crowdsourcing community, the product team might never have found it. The Home Depot Bucket Mister.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

We are seeing the most valuable companies that are emerging today are largely based on sophisticated platform business models where ecosystems are vital to their health and global ambitions (Apple, Amazon, Car Manufacturers are all examples). As we learn we adapt, as we share we grow.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 9, 2017

A good example of it can be found in fitness apps. That’s a good example of “gamifying” fitness, an extremely popular strategy. That’s a good example of “gamifying” fitness, an extremely popular strategy. Gamification is the addition of game-like ideas and rewards to a work process.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 27, 2017

However, to be successful in each role, she says that a set of attitudes and actions are required: Imagination : requires the attitude of engagement and envisioning. Two examples of government institutions that have benefited from crowdsourcing are the City of Atlanta and the Department of Labor. million annually.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 23, 2017

University of Michigan is one great example of institutions striving for better diversity & inclusivity. As businesses navigate their path towards meaningful diversity, engaging their existing communities using an innovation solution software can help them address the concerns and opportunities they would otherwise miss.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2019

That problem can be extremely simple (for example, Facebook mostly exists to stay in passive touch with friends and family), or it can be complex (like figuring out cold fusion). Logistics, for example, touches a lengthy supply chain from the manufacturer to the final customer. Identify the Problem.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 24, 2018

Taylor and Ascione have long been champions of crowdsourcing, as they’ve built their program from the ground up, despite that not being part of their job description. They’re two shining examples of the intrapreneurial nature of open innovation champions. Together, they encompass the ePolicyWorks crowdsourcing team.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It often requires changes to culture, operations, and customer engagement. For example, a retailer moving from brick-and-mortar stores to a fully digital e-commerce platform is undergoing digital transformation. For example, adding smart sensors to industrial equipment enables predictive maintenance, reducing downtime and costs.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 20, 2019

This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look before you jump; instead, follow the example of Houdini. This can take many forms beyond just believing in a bold idea, like evaluating whether open innovation or crowdsourcing is the best technique for your particular risk scenario. Do more than just lead your team. Collaboration.

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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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