Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. All in all, if applied carefully it can provide you a leading edge of innovation knowledge and insight. I wanted to step back a little and take a more measured look at crowdsourcing.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 14, 2020

The idea of “outsourcing” innovation can seem contrary to the whole concept. Isn’t innovation supposed to be about tapping the potential of your employees while engaging with them on a creative level? Sometimes it takes an outsider to kickstart the creative process. Why Should I Outsource Innovation?

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

IdeaScale is offering innovators from around the world an extra week to complete their submission for the Innovation Management Awards. This is our fifth annual award series and we honor winners in three categories: best innovation engagement strategy, best innovation process, and best innovation.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 20, 2017

One of the most effective ways to engage your crowd is to demonstrate commitment to turning their ideas into real value and impact. However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. The process was designed to bring in and launch as many ideas as possible, built on the IdeaScale platform. Building An Inclusive Innovation Practice. Facing COVID.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Innovation can accomplish great things, even in highly regulated government agencies.?. Five years ago, CDER launched a crowdsourcing program to make better use of its 4,500 employees, and the results have been extremely promising. For their innovation strategy, time-limited challenges work better.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Instead, choose metrics that are more informative and that tell you about the process. You might consider overall time spent on the project, time from first meeting to product launch, customer feedback, or employee engagement. Building an innovation culture starts with a strong foundation.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. So going a step further in my own design within this new innovation era. Each of us has a part to play in innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

More use of gamification techniques to encourage participation and engagement among employees. Overall the software will help companies to manage and improve their innovation process and to get insights from the data generated by it. From < [link] > What holds Innovation software back for companies to adopt more?

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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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Planview

APRIL 11, 2019

Polaris Industries’ crowdsourcing case study is inspiring people both internally and externally—and their story is still relevant today. We’re proud to have an innovative culture. But the company’s existing “innovation” process was entirely manual, making progress fragmented, expensive, time-consuming, and siloed.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Actively solicit ideas and approaches from them, get information on the challenges and ways to resolve them, and ask what their ideal innovation program looks like. Early on in the innovation process, the resource demands are usually modest, and far less complex than you might think.

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InnovationManagement

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Crowdsourcing and open innovation initiatives are vital by bringing vast stakeholders together to share ideas on complex problems and opportunities. Much of the focus is set on engaging the crowd yet deciding which ideas to take a risk on requires data on the likely impacts and costs. .

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

We all know that women play a crucial role in innovation , but it’s great to see it take center stage this year at Open Nation as these women talk about some of the most intricate and exciting challenges and solutions when it comes to crowdsourced innovation. Take-Something-Home Workshops.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Crowdsourcing often taps into these rushes of energy , insights and excitement The goal here is to move the crowd towards a new direction in our collective thinking to solve a problem. Crowdsourcing is going one better. The concern for me is as we have this greater access to technology, crowdsourcing is spawning everywhere.

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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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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

The idea management platform utilizes crowdsourcing so that your business can suggest possible product ideas to an actively engaged community who will vote and comment upon the effectiveness of your ideas. This is where IdeaScale can help.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 5, 2020

Iowa DOT has announced the successful deployment of Qmarkets’ innovation management software, with the launch of their Research Ideas Website. Their goal is to crowdsource ideas from their stakeholders, both internal and external to DOT, to increase engagement and transparency throughout the agency.

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Planview

JUNE 16, 2016

To do that, we must understand our customers’ needs, which means having all of the information we can get from the employees that directly engage with them.” KBC, in fact, wanted innovation to be part of its DNA. Time and time again, we see companies remove the barriers to entry for ideas by embracing crowdsourced innovation.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Yet, it’s important to remember that the so-called serendipitous encounters , unplanned interactions between employees working in close proximity to each other, represent one of the driving forces of innovation. crowdsourcing ?as open innovation tool to help them address their most pressing technical and business challenges.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

They are believed to play a central role in the development of new collaborative partnerships that are crucial for sustained corporate innovation process. Crowdsourcing to the Rescue? crowdsourcing ?as open innovation tool to help them address their most pressing technical and business challenges.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 5, 2020

Iowa DOT has announced the successful deployment of Qmarkets’ innovation management software, with the launch of their Research Ideas Website. Their goal is to crowdsource ideas from their stakeholders, both internal and external to DOT, to increase engagement and transparency throughout the organization.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 3, 2018

Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the Smart Cities initiative could be what makes the difference. Internal Engagement. As a part of the launch of the initiative, as many different players and internal stakeholders should be engaged, establishing sustainable collaboration from within the government.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 5, 2020

Iowa DOT has announced the successful deployment of Qmarkets’ innovation management software, with the launch of their Research Ideas Website. Their goal is to crowdsource ideas from their stakeholders, both internal and external to DOT, to increase engagement and transparency throughout the organization.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Ideas and feedback are flowing back and forth throughout the innovation process. This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities. Everyone in the innovation process can contribute, regardless of their position or role.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. If an idea doesn’t work, the 10X team makes it clear that it’s the end of the process.

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Planview

APRIL 28, 2019

Premera tasked Nielsen and his innovation team to come up with new ideas that put their customers at the center of Premera’s universe. This meant allowing everybody within the company to participate in an innovation process. Nurture a culture of innovation through crowdsourcing, workshops, and meet ups.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The evolving trend of smart city innovation is one that governments should be wholeheartedly embracing, but as with many government initiatives, seems to be having a hard time getting off the ground. Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the smart cities initiative could be what makes the difference.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

There is growing specialization and client need for tracking trends, exploring technology solutions, IP patent searches, road mapping, portfolio management, foresight and scouting, collaborative ideas management, crowdsourcing, simply collecting inspiration or market intelligence, scanning environments to detect opportunity.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Qmarkets have partnered with Dutch innovation consultants, Pimcy Innovation & Portfolio Management, to offer a comprehensive enterprise innovation solution to companies in the Benelux region.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Qmarkets have partnered with Dutch innovation consultants, Pimcy Innovation & Portfolio Management, to offer a comprehensive enterprise innovation solution to companies in the Benelux region.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Because it invests customers in product development, it can also be useful from a marketing perspective or if you want to use crowdsourcing, but don’t want to deal with the downsides of the entire internet having a vote on your product. How Should I Use Open Innovation?

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