Paul Hobcraft

MAY 1, 2017

We need to really engage and have a real depth of understanding of the customer, their needs, their individual journey, by discovering and engaging with them constantly at all their current touch points and experiences of what they are wanting to do, that is different from today and this comes from new combinations.

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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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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Benefits of an Open Innovation Strategy An effective open innovation strategy provides multiple advantages: Access to Diverse Expertise : By engaging with external partners, companies can integrate new perspectives and specialized knowledge. Use built-in evaluation tools, like voting and scoring, to quickly identify high-potential ideas.

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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

Think of the improved innovation results they could get if they not only engaged their employees in the innovation process but also helped them to learn about that process and develop their skills in generating, developing, and analyzing ideas. Get started yourself today and then engage others to scale it.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 7, 2020

Discover How You Can Engage Your Employees in Your Total Innovation Strategy ! 2. Amplify Idea Generation You can’t address the question ‘what is total idea management’ without emphasising the importance of crowdsourcing ideas. The post What is Total Innovation Management?

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Qmarkets

JULY 31, 2023

Qmarkets’ innovation management software facilitates idea generation, evaluation and implementation, collaboration, and data analysis. You have an endless list of stakeholders to engage, countless data points to consider, and plenty of landmines to avoid. About Qmarkets Managing innovation at large company is never easy.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Since the 2004 publication of James Surowiecki’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of Crowds , the idea that large groups of people can be smarter than a few individuals, no matter how brilliant, has been gradually gaining prominence in academic circles, business communities, and public opinion.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

This approach cuts costs while delivering a more tailored and engaging dining experience that attracts new customers. To maximize impact, companies should use crowdsourcing to gather diverse insights and apply structured evaluation criteria to identify high-value opportunities.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 3, 2018

Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the Smart Cities initiative could be what makes the difference. the natural evolution of the course should be smart, or digital, government that not only enables more efficient engagement between its personnel but also upgraded contact with the people, including value-generating services.

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Planview

JULY 22, 2016

Editor’s note: Last month, Maggie Riad, VP of Innovation Strategy at Spigit, held a webinar: ‘10 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement in your Innovation Program’. Q: How do we make it easier for employees to understand how their engagement affects our innovation program? Q: How can employee engagement be measured?

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Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Intent focus on the unimportant In an effort to be seen doing something, when innovation is a priority most organizations will respond with alacrity, gathering teams to conduct idea generation. The focus is on successful completion of the idea generation activity, not on actual implementation of new ideas.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The open invitation to join a collaborative innovation program that involves training the image recognition of the robotic astronaut by generating 3D models of objects that it would interact with on the EVA spacewalk, including , and of the International Space Station has captured everyone’s imagination.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the smart cities initiative could be what makes the difference. the natural evolution of the course should be smart, or digital, government that not only enables more efficient engagement between its personnel but also upgraded contact with the people, including value-generating services.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Instead, they are tapping into the global pool of talent and ideas, using tools like crowdsourcing and hackathons. From linear to agile: Idea generation is now a continuous process, not a one-time event. Organizations are no longer relying solely on internal sources of innovation.

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Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Customer activities: Route 22: Crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is effective in the early stages of an innovation process because of the fact that it per definition a diverging activity and it results in a wide variety of options to choose from. Searching for and collaborating with these communities may increase new ideas.

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Qmarkets

JULY 12, 2024

We will delve into the concepts of startup scouting, crowdsourcing, and hackathons as powerful tools to tap into this potential and discuss how integrating these methods can revolutionize your business. Key components of innovation management include: Idea Generation: The process of creating new concepts, products, or processes.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Its rapid expansion from a small, family-run wholesale goods business in 1928 into a multinational conglomerate with 30,000 employees, can be attributed in part to the creative – and ingenious – ways it has crowdsourced ideas from employees. Qmarkets: That’s a great point. So what comes next after the “enrichment” phase?

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Qmarkets

JULY 19, 2024

By collaborating with external partners such as universities, startups, customers, and even competitors, companies can access a broader pool of ideas, technologies, and expertise. Key principles of open innovation include: Collaboration with External Partners : Engaging with external entities to co-create and co-develop new solutions.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 7, 2020

FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process. Developing a strategy here is key in creating an efficient and cost-effective idea generation process, but how should you approach this?

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Leading automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor America launched its BIG (Better Idea Generator) campaign – driven by Qmarkets innovation management software. The company utilized the best-practice functionality of the system to generate ideas from their employees. “We Marketing Manager, Qmarkets.

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Wazoku

JULY 24, 2017

Businesses and institutions have been using crowdsourcing for years through focus groups, surveys, consultations and interviews to gather feedback and suggestions. Although the terms “crowdsourcing”, “open innovation” and “ideation” can sound complex and novel, they are merely new methods of engaging larger crowds to gather ideas and input.

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Planview

APRIL 4, 2019

An innovation program requires employee engagement, the fuel that will power the ideas generated and eventually the products or solutions developed. However, employee engagement is often stagnant, if not declining. How do you get employee engagement to get your company to meaningfully and strategically innovate?

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

They can then submit, collaborate, and evaluate ideas to assess whether they present value for implementation. Benefits of Crowdsourcing Ideas Ideas have a huge amount of potential and can result in a variety of benefits for an organization. Strategically making steps towards increasing your market share.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

They can then submit, collaborate, and evaluate ideas to assess whether they present value for implementation. Benefits of Crowdsourcing Ideas Ideas have a huge amount of potential and can result in a variety of benefits for an organization. Strategically making steps towards increasing your market share.

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Planview

JUNE 29, 2018

Every year Spigit conducts its “ State of Crowdsourced Innovation ” customer study to better understand how our customers build and manage their innovation programs. In the early years of launching and nourishing a crowdsourcing program, the focus is on employee engagement.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Crowdsourced innovation” —the process of inspiring, collecting, and accelerating ideas from the “crowd,” such as your employees, partners, and customers, at scale—has proven to be incredibly effective. Did the productivity solutions reduce costs? Make time for softer metrics. Adopt a tracking mechanism to measure value.

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Planview

JANUARY 30, 2018

This results in more ideas generated, including diversity of ideas, and ultimately more output. If you’re looking to scale your efforts in 2018, and engage more employees, partners, and groups in your innovation program in the coming year, please give this approach some thought. Challenge Deployment Toolkit.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Let’s look at some companies who have been driving immediate successes, engaging employees effectively, responding fast to cost pressures, shortening the time-to-market, and showing a significant rate of innovation. The company recently launched Deloitte Pixel, a worldwide enterprise crowdsourcing offering. General Electric.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Just as innovative leaders should constantly identify opportunities to lead from the top-down, they should encourage and empower their employees to function as equal stakeholders in the idea generation process, driving suggestions for change and innovation from the bottom up.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

With the right tool, the idea generation, implementation and evaluation, and market tracking phases can be managed to create successful business outcomes. Through ideation sessions using techniques such as hackathons that can take an idea to a proof of concept, which will clear the path for innovations. activity streams).

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Qmarkets

JULY 18, 2024

When employees feel safe to express new ideas without fear of failure, they are more likely to engage in innovative thinking. Implement a Structured Innovation Process A well-defined innovation process is key to effective management of innovation by converting creative ideas into actionable projects.

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Open Innovation EU

APRIL 19, 2017

Lead User Engagement: finding and involving important (recurring) users in your research process. Crowdsourcing: using the wisdom of the crowd to gain new insights. Social Media Research: using social media to research reactions or general sense among users. Bodystorming: more active forms of idea generation.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Leading automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motor America launched its BIG (Better Idea Generator) campaign – driven by Qmarkets innovation management software. This 12-month campaign incentivizes participants to contribute innovative ideas that have potential to impact the company’s key strategic priorities in positive ways.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2020

How have you handled innovation and specifically idea management in the past? Michiel: Originally we had a post-box where ideas were dropped and an anonymous guy in HQ would say yes or no – mostly no. But this wasn’t engaging and employees were left dissatisfied. Michiel: So just to share some numbers with you.

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 29, 2017

With the right tool, the idea generation, implementation and evaluation, and market tracking phases can be managed to create successful business outcomes. Through ideation sessions using techniques such as hackathons that can take an idea to a proof of concept, which will clear the path for innovations. activity streams).

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Background and Challenges: Crowdsourcing Financial Process Improvement TSYS is a major payment-processing company operating in over 80 countries and overseeing approximately 28 billion transactions per year. Employee engagement presented the second major challenge.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Diverse ideas. Faster idea generation. Better quality ideas. Better employee engagement. Crowdsourcing. Distinct advantages of collaboration. Sharing of costs and risks. Immense learning opportunities for the “equal players”. Increased flexibility. Breaking down silos. Helps push through expected resistance.

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