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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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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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

Recently a customer asked me if I could share some insight as to what type of incentives really work to drive engagement across divisions and companies. Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives. It turns out that successful incentive programs require a flexible, multi-faceted approach.

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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 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

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

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. Trust: Individuals must trust that the collective group will be fair. Engage hundreds in your audience and let the software aggregate their results.

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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

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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

The first group are recent ones providing a really good depth to them. 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).

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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 19, 2017

Brainstorm and Network: Make a list of the diverse groups of people that you already have in your organization’s rolodex. Use messaging, visuals, and language specifically tailored to specifically to each target group you wish to engage. Conversely, it will also determine the people who choose not to engage.

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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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IdeaScale

APRIL 28, 2020

The IdeaScale software is primarily used to crowdsource ideas. Company leaders previously learned about what customers wanted through traditional means such as surveys and focus groups. The CEO suggested crowdsourcing as a way to promote employee engagement. Success through Customer Involvem ent.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 2, 2018

Engagement – the more active participation by people the better. They measured engagement by the level of peer voting on ideas – on average this is about 5 votes per user per year. The paper is 14 pages long and contains brief case studies from AT&T, United Health Group, Pfizer and EDF Energy.

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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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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

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Crowdsourcing in the military? Sometimes people think putting together a team at work is as simple as grouping employees with different skills to complete a project, but it’s so much more than that. It’s a delicate, difficult task to form groups of people not only with the correct skills but with the will to work well together.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 5, 2021

First, make sure to properly engage your employees at every step of the way. Remember, only around 41% of employees were actively engaged during 2020. To keep staff engaged going forward, you’ll need to make sure you’re constantly communicating with your teams, offering recognition, and responding to their needs.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Who has a vested interest in the subject matter of your crowdsourcing campaign? I pivoted off this, because software can help you overcome the challenges that would usually bog down group decisions. Of those people who I wish to engage in decisions, how can I engage them efficiently? These are your subject matter experts.

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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

JUNE 25, 2019

When that happens, people go into brainstorming sessions feeling they’re about to engage in a time-wasting exercise. Keep the Group Small and Diverse. Warm the Group Up. In any group of five or six people, you’ll have one or two who do all the talking. The key is to have the right brainstorming tools in your kit.

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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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InnovationManagement

MAY 18, 2021

Many enterprise organizations use crowdsourcing to find ideas in their blind spots - but how do you launch your first crowdsourcing challenge, and what sorts of questions do you ask? IdeaScale Crowd is hosting a webinar for first-time crowdsourcing innovators who want to engage a large group of collaborators in solving their problems.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. Improve employee engagement. Once when I was catering for a very large group, I needed to obtain a large clear serving platter. Gather more ideas. Scale innovation programs.

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IdeaScale

JULY 24, 2018

When brainstorming and collaborative ideation happens in a physical location, it trends towards polite agreement or staying with the ideas that occur in that small frame of time and receive the most group consensus. To learn more about NYU’s AMC crowdsourcing initiative, download the case study here!

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 29, 2017

And we have various methods of engaging our guests during their visit. I think about what refreshments they’ll want upon arrival, who I should introduce them to, how to best engage them so they have a memorable experience. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine.

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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. While you can still have experts in the R&D department, you can also engage employees and external groups to solve any problem.

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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

MAY 25, 2017

When someone embeds a dedicated innovation group at their company or organization, there are several different approaches to managing research and idea stewardship and numerous problems to be solved. Crowdsourcing helps scale and prioritize the effort of new ideas. They want to impact employee engagement.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 24, 2018

Much like its inspiration, Open Nation DC brought together an energetic, eclectic group of IdeaScale customers and prospects to knowledge-share, network and collaborate. 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.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2019

You might consider overall time spent on the project, time from first meeting to product launch, customer feedback, or employee engagement. Go Outside Your Company Whether it’s crowdsourcing, open innovation, or another form of reaching out, don’t hesitate to tap into creativity beyond your organization.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2017

And then the profile for the embedded innovation group within an organization: A majority of IdeaScale customers have some level of program maturity (between 1-3 years old). They have a team dedicated to implementation and they use incentives to increase engagement. The post What Does an Innovator Look Like?

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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. We will convert business jargon to everyday language to entice and excite the crowd to help you solve your challenge.

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