Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 29, 2021

Yet another person says "innovation" and means crowdsourcing and employee engagement systems. Many management teams are presented with a diverse range of "innovation" projects and potential outcomes. Another says "innovation" and means increased investment in product R&D.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Project Marketing 244

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Why engage in changing to Innovation Ecosystems Following on from my last two posts related to recognizing the importance of Innovation Ecosystems we need to ask what makes these dynamic, interconnected and engaging, from a diverse groups perspective? It is a listening of 13 minutes but I like how it discusses this.

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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). ” Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Design 200

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

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Innovation Management Management Crowdsourcing Underperforming Technical Team 150

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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Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement Tips 164

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 10, 2018

While the structured presentations were scheduled to end by midday, the inspired conversations lasted through the afternoon. 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. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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Crowdsourcing Policies Engagement Innovation 149

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. You can see some other presentations from Open Nation here.

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Crowdsourcing Product Development Marketing Innovation Programs 70

Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 30, 2019

But if you do not have such an app or you just want something more immediate and engaging then try setting up an innovation market. Each idea is assigned a champion who will act as presenter and salesperson for the idea. Set up stalls (or separate rooms) where the presentations will take place. Here is it how it works.

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Marketing Brainstorming Innovation Project 237

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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Crowdsourcing Engagement Open Innovation Management 145

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Future products are increasingly engaging the consumer as they evolve and respond to “data” and knowledge supplied back. At present, the best solution available to deliver a complete, inter-connected innovation process or system seems to be lying in the hands of the product lifecycle players under PLM.

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Software Review Software Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 222

IdeaScale

APRIL 24, 2018

The day was split into customer presentations in the morning, and IdeaScale-led workshops in the afternoon. Customer presentations in particular are one of the coolest parts of any Open Nation. Their presentation focused on the ecosystem they’ve built from scratch internally to host sponsored challenges.

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Policies Crowdsourcing Innovation Programs Open Innovation 145

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. That being said, ideation is obviously integral in the process of crowdsourcing; you need ideas to solve problems. Everyone has some wisdom to offer. The key here is #1.

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Software Review Ideation Crowdsourcing Groups 189

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, Davidson turned towards its innovation process to address the rapid change and safety challenges the pandemic presented. Building An Inclusive Innovation Practice. Facing COVID.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Innovation Programs Course 130

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Presenters include NASA, the United States Air Force, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Freddie Mac, and the United Way. Crowdsourcing in the military? Thanks for the great presentation!”. 24-25 in Washington, D.C. This year, focus areas are: Innovation metrics and tracking ROI Gaining leadership buy-in Developing innovation teams.

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Conference Crowdsourcing Innovation Project 159

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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Tips Crowdsourcing Industry Company 140

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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Case Study Crowdsourcing Leadership Study 124

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

APRIL 27, 2017

Her presentation offered practical tips to take your ideas from inspiration to implementation. 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. Creativity : requires motivation and experimentation. million annually.

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Entrepreneurship Crowdsourcing Brainstorming Creativity 145

IdeaScale

JUNE 25, 2019

When that happens, people go into brainstorming sessions feeling they’re about to engage in a time-wasting exercise. Have people turn off their phones and be 100 percent present at your brainstorming venue, which could be a park, a café, or even just a conference room in another building. Go Somewhere Out of the Ordinary.

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Brainstorming How To Exercises Analysis 183

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We recently caught up with Juan Fernando Correa, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. That’s why I’ve been engaging with the Qmarkets platform, to enable anyone at the company to bring forward new and interesting ideas for innovation in mining.

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Crowdsourcing Software Review Technical Review Project 98

IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

70% of Open Nation’s Presenters are Women. 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. The Wolters Kluwer Presentation.

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Crowdsourcing Ideation Agile Innovation Management 133

IdeaScale

JUNE 27, 2017

One of the most effective ways to engage the crowd is to demonstrate commitment to turning their ideas into real value and impact. However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Last week we focused on engaging stakeholders and experts early and often. This week, we focus on four additional best practices.

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Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Crowdsourcing 113

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Equally nearly all our larger business organizations are still locked in the past, or attempting to catch up to the present but in random ways. We need to apply what we need to get the “job” done and this becomes specific to the challenge and its complexity and engagement needs. This does need a real change but can we achieve it?

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Planview

JANUARY 18, 2019

For companies looking to grow and expand, the lack of engaged employees is a significant problem that can wreak havoc on long-term success. To combat the issues that disengaged employees present, companies invest over $100 billion every year on tools and tactics. Why are engaged employees important you may be wondering?

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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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Crowdsourcing Engagement Open Innovation Management 100

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

We are at the cusp or already into significant changes to how the world, society and we as individuals will manage or engage going into the future. We often need to approach change in a non-linear fashion as no recognized patterns or present system approaches or behaviours work. There are many interconnected (constantly moving) parts.

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Innovation Design Collaboration Engagement 190

Imaginatik

AUGUST 13, 2015

Engagement programs are a valuable path to change that dynamic. At Imaginatik, we have developed eight sustainable strategic processes to achieve engaging in ideas and taking them beyond idea to action. Still, is this the most suitable engagement program for your innovation outcomes?

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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. It was always obvious to leaders at Polaris that there were untapped opportunities to crowdsource groundbreaking ideas from employees across the company. Transparent crowdsourcing.

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Case Study Crowdsourcing Study Industry 56

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2020

Why aren’t organizations recognizing the benefits of crowdsourcing? In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. However, many companies still struggle to match crowdsourcing to their specific requirements.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 10, 2024

Recently, I presented my framework to the GIMI think tank GIMI was initiated by a worldwide group of chief innovation officers, innovation executives, academics and consultants in 2009. Technology Scouting and External Technology Integration: Description: Engage in technology scouting to identify cutting-edge innovations externally.

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Open Innovation Innovation Collaboration Design 148

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2020

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. In this post, I’ll cover this aspect of adopting crowdsourcing.

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Crowdsourcing Brainstorming Technical Review Software Review 52

IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

The team could get to work without feeling constrained by the way the vision was presented – they were both totally focused and liberated at the same time!” For the hardware: A thousand songs in your pocket ; for the software: so easy that your Mother could do it ; and for the project: and on the shelves in eight months !

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Crowdsourcing Technical Review 124

IdeaScale

MAY 22, 2018

Last month, leaders in public sector innovation gathered to discuss ways of crowdsourcing new solutions to longstanding problems at IdeaScale’s Open Nation DC. When it comes to crowdsourcing, you have to know what it is that gets people into an ideation community and inspires them. What are you trying to move the needle on?

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Crowdsourcing Policies Innovation Data 100

Qmarkets

JUNE 8, 2023

On the one hand, there is an almost infinite number of opportunities presented by new technologies. But on the other, cybersecurity threats, limited resources, and countless other headaches present tough hurdles that must be overcome before these opportunities can be seized. Running an IT department in this day and age isn’t easy.

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Innovation Management Artificial Inteligence Management Crowdsourcing 90

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Part of the benefit of a crowdsourced innovation system is disseminating information to others in the network so that they can apply it elsewhere. Learn more about the Queensland Police innovation initiative in their Open Nation presentation. This from someone who had never made a statement on the platform.

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Crowdsourcing System Learning Innovation 157

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

They, Sopheon, have been generating good cash and have presently a net cash position of $16.7 The nature of the present constraints. It is a very fragmented market, constrained by the existing designs in place. Can Sopheon break out of the pack or will others make the leap? They are taking a creative lead but is it bold enough.

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Innovation Management Management Software Review Software 200

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 1, 2017

If their needs are not fully understood, to turn the present fuzziness from not fully understanding their needs and unmet needs into opportunity to grow our business, you are at a real disadvantage today.

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Innovation Collaboration Disruption Engagement 171