IdeaScale

MAY 25, 2021

Crowdsourcing is an effective way to kick off innovation efforts. Crowdsourcing initiatives increase innovation performance within an organization. Research shows 86% of companies who take part in crowdsourcing activities consider engagement an important part of company success. Reasons why IdeaScale asks those questions.

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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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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. Learn how your product is actually used, not just how you intended it to be used when pursuing new ideas. For some, it may not be the most workable.

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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

MARCH 15, 2017

Crowdsourcing can add up in surprising ways. Can finance benefit from crowdsourcing? While open innovation and crowdsourcing are incredibly popular in other industries, the financial industry is necessarily more conservative about the technology it uses and the consumers it listens to. Crowdsourcing and finance often make sense.

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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

APRIL 6, 2021

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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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Here are some lessons to learn from how startups innovate quickly and turn into established companies. You might consider overall time spent on the project, time from first meeting to product launch, customer feedback, or employee engagement. To learn more about the innovation process, join our newsletter today.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 17, 2019

Non-profit engagement is about more than volunteering. Crowdsourcing can be a powerful tool for helping non-profits generate innovative ideas in the long term. Non-profit initiatives need to be transparent, and crowdsourcing is, by its very nature, crystal clear. Stronger Employee Engagement. Better Transparency.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 1, 2020

Learn how to establish a foundation as a new department from the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Mousetrap team. For the past eight years, NASA has been running an internal crowdsourcing program with great success. This webinar highlights that success and delves into best practices for internal crowdsourcing from the minds at NASA.

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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

JUNE 13, 2018

Crowdsourced innovation communities only succeed when they bring in new voices and encourage them to share ideas. We asked our Innovation Strategists at IdeaScale to share some community engagement tips: “Post a video of a key high-level sponsor showing support for the campaigns that you’re running. ” -Matt Paulson. Kerry Seed.

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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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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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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

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

MAY 18, 2021

In 2021, we expect to see faster turnaround times on ideas, even faster growth in departments focused directly on innovation, more engagement from leaders, and a shift to transformational and adjacent change in innovation strategy. There’s much more to learn from our white paper on 2021. 2020 Was The Year of Necessity.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 9, 2020

This occurs either within the company or through the use of crowdsourcing and presents more opportunities for bringing people together. The ability to boost engagement is another advantage of using the IdeaScale platform. This further encourages engagement and innovation. The IdeaScale Difference.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 22, 2017

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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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

This type of purpose can help employees feel engaged, stay longer, work more effectively, and more. One of the benefits of a crowdsourced innovation program, however, is that you can find additional resources to implement ideas outside of your organization (or in other unlikely places).

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

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). “Will crowdsourcing provide predictable outcomes?

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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

MARCH 22, 2017

In this case, the City of Calgary was a leader in generating engagement with their innovation program. This is perhaps the most important engagement tactic you can use: responsiveness. To learn more about the City of Calgary and their myCityInnovation program, download their case study. . But how did they do it?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2018

As an innovation strategist at IdeaScale, I focus on helping our clients think creatively about how best to engage their crowd and leverage the wisdom of the crowd to source ideas for new products and services and improve processes. Want to learn more? The goal is to collect ideas and surface insights to explore new opportunities.

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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. This week we focus on engaging stakeholders and experts early and often. This week we focus on engaging stakeholders and experts early and often. Set expectations for the crowd from the beginning.

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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. The post Align Innovation Incentives to Goals appeared first on IdeaScale.

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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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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The Mayors traveled to the United States from Brazil to learn about innovations in community policing. I was most surprised by the high level of engagement, thoughtful questions, and the genuine desire from the Mayors to make their public spaces safer. This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees.

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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. Well, every year we ask our customers what it is that they would most like to learn about in order to support their programs. Engagement. Implementation.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

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. Thinking through and employing an incentivization program commensurate with that diversity will help maximize and maintain engagement. In that same vein, no thinking past ideation.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ecosystems built around specific platform designs are the future of innovation that takes designs and solutions into a new realm of opportunity built on collaborative engagement and common missions. As we learn we adapt, as we share we grow. But be aware – the challenges are difficult to work through.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. The same process conceived and implemented a faculty boot camp on digital learning that, while optional, saw 96% of faculty attend and complete. To learn more, request a demo.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Crowdsourcing in the military? If the military can learn to accept, appreciate, and use suggestions that don’t come from the top brass, your organization can too. This year’s conference-goers will learn from the best when the Cleveland Cavaliers talk about how they pick new members of the team. Convincing the Grand Poobah.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 11, 2020

IdeaScale has recently acquired Betterific, a crowdsourcing platform that engages a community of 18,000+ creative problem solvers, design thinkers, and ideators to help you come up with your next big idea. Learn more about how you can tap into this innovative community.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 6, 2019

Many law enforcement agencies are turning to new technologies like body cameras and license plate readers, and as they choose and adopt technologies, they must also allot the necessary time so officers can learn how to use them. IdeaScale invites you to learn more by downloading our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper.

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IdeaScale

JULY 11, 2018

This tenet underpins most of crowdsourcing and all open innovation programs. And if this marketer hadn’t shared their idea in a crowdsourcing community, the product team might never have found it. The idea for IdeaScale functions on a simple premise: good ideas can come from anywhere. A Credit Offering for SMBs.

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