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What is Crowdsourcing? Definition, Examples, and Benefits

Qmarkets

Some of the most innovative solutions emerge when businesses crowdsource ideas from employees, customers, and even the general public. But what is crowdsourcing, and why are so many organizations using it to drive innovation? What Is Crowdsourcing? But first, lets cover the basics.

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Build Your Career by Sharing a Crowdsourced Idea

IdeaScale

He says this product and the company’s innovation program have been key parts of his career. Laszlo Gyorffy is president of EDG, an IdeaScale partner that specializes in innovation strategy. He says surprising things happen when you pull together a multidisciplinary group to crowdsource ideas.

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Four Ways to Improve Your Creative Confidence

IdeaScale

So, your company is investing in innovation, but do you lack the confidence to be creative? A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. Improve innovation leadership. Scale innovation programs.

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Align Innovation Incentives to Goals

IdeaScale

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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IM Award Lessons: Rapidly Iterating on Promising Ideas

IdeaScale

This year, QED won the Innovation Management award for best innovation realized. 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.

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Top Themes from Open Nation DC

IdeaScale

Much like its inspiration, Open Nation DC brought together an energetic, eclectic group of IdeaScale customers and prospects to knowledge-share, network and collaborate. Contreras dived into the importance of goal-setting and quantifiable metrics to any innovation program. Coast Guard. Coast Guard.

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What Does an Innovator Look Like?

IdeaScale

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). Most IdeaScale customers are using their innovation program to collaborate with their employees. The post What Does an Innovator Look Like?

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