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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HYPE Innovation

MAY 18, 2023

If carried out well , crowdsourcing u nit es the "crowd" in pursuit of the common goal of gathering cutting-edge innovation knowledge and insights. By bring ing together a diverse and broad community of people, this type of open innovation has the potential to uncover powerful solutions and solve complex problems.

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HYPE Innovation

MAY 18, 2023

If carried out well , crowdsourcing u nit es the "crowd" in pursuit of the common goal of gathering cutting-edge innovation knowledge and insights. By bring ing together a diverse and broad community of people, this type of open innovation has the potential to uncover powerful solutions and solve complex problems.

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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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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2023

At the beginning of the year, FORVIS launched its new idea management platform, powered by Qmarkets. John Yoo (pictured right) is the Senior Innovation Success Manager of FORVIS’ EDGE team with almost 20 years of experience working in product management, strategy consulting, and chemical engineering.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 8, 2021

In recent years, the concept of crowdsourcing has become an increasingly common tool used in response to large scale crises and world events. From the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 to the Covid-19 solutions marketplace in Israel last year, crowdsourcing has been proven as an effective way to gather solutions and solve problems.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 21, 2020

Somedia – one of the largest media companies in Switzerland – have selected Qmarkets’ idea management platform to crowdsource ideas from their employees. To find out how Qmarkets can help you uncover growth-driving ideas for your enterprise, don’t hesitate to get contact us today!

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Qmarkets

MAY 2, 2024

Just over a year ago, Capricorn launched its first ever idea management platform, with Qmarkets software as the engine. The new program fuels innovation at Capricorn in a way that perfectly aligns with its cooperative principles – by asking its people to share their ideas and work together to bring them to life.

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ITONICS

DECEMBER 18, 2024

While generating ideas is often straightforward, managing this abundance of inputs and formats, and channeling resources toward the most promising concepts, presents a significant challenge. A professional idea management solution is the answer to this complexity.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 4, 2025

This article explores 12 thought-provoking innovation quotes, each revealing a key lesson in crowdsourcing, collaboration, idea management , or continuous innovation. Crowdsourcing Innovation Quotes The Power of Collective Intelligence Great ideas dont happen in isolation.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Additionally, we’ll explore why software dedicated to idea management is not just suitable but ideal for serving as a hackathon platform, ensuring that the best ideas generated don’t just stay as concepts but evolve into impactful solutions. This is why idea management software provides the ideal hackathon platform.

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InnovationManagement

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The post What Can We Learn About Crowdsourcing in a Pandemic from NASA? At NASA, the entire NASA workforce expressed their desire to help the nation combat the virus – even though most of their employees were asked to work from home. appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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InnovationManagement

JUNE 24, 2021

As the director of the IdeaScale Crowd community, I recently had the opportunity to share some insights and best practices for innovators who are new to crowdsourcing, and may not have conducted their first campaign yet. The post Five Questions to Answer Before Crowdsourcing appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 26, 2020

We are Sherpas for our teams and we really guide them through the entire process,” explains Callini, leader of the NASA@WORK program, NASA’s internal crowdsourcing platform. Often crowdsourcing tools help with refining, not the solution, but rather the problem in the first place.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This article explores the essentials of developing an effective open innovation strategy and the role of innovation management software in executing it, including tools for idea management, technology scouting, and trend management. What Is an Open Innovation Strategy?

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Qmarkets

MARCH 21, 2025

Use Open Innovation to Access External Expertise Instead of relying solely on internal R&D, companies can collaborate with startups , universities, and research institutions to source breakthrough ideas. Crowdsourcing and co-development initiatives can further expand the pool of potential game-changing solutions.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 15, 2020

During the COVID-19 crisis, an idea management platform is needed to facilitate even more sharing and collaboration as employees are forced to work from home. As the largest cloud-based innovation software platform in the world, we continue to provide a means of global innovation through crowdsourcing and idea-sharing.

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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. He tells us all about how his company gathers ideas using the Qmarkets platform and the process by which they decided to use it.

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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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Viima

APRIL 17, 2023

Studies, academia, research, and the myriad of examples from companies are boasting about the amazing results brought by ideas from external parties. A study shows that 85% of the top global brands have used crowdsourcing during the last decade. But is crowdsourcing truly effective to spur innovation?

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Unlike spontaneous brainstorming, a formal ideation process ensures that ideas are captured, organized, and systematically reviewed. Whether applied internally with employees or externally through crowdsourcing , the ideation process helps organizations turn creativity into meaningful outcomes, positioning them for long-term success.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Idea Crowdsourcing and Hackathons Innovation thrives when businesses tap into collective intelligence. Crowdsourcing and hackathons provide structured ways to gather fresh ideas and accelerate problem-solving. Crowdsourcing allows companies to solicit innovative ideas from employees, customers, or external stakeholders.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Examples include: Virtual Whiteboards: Digital spaces where teams can brainstorm and organize ideas in real-time. Idea Submission Platforms: Tools that allow teams or stakeholders to contribute ideas asynchronously. Crowdsourcing: Gathering input from a larger audience , such as employees, customers, or online communities.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 21, 2020

Businesses looking to discover how to beat a recession with idea management and continuous improvement would also do well to adopt it. To gain that all-important edge, it’s advisable to survey the marketplace – through crowdsourcing projects, ? “Improvise, adapt, and overcome” is a mantra coined by the U.S

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, co-creation… overlapping terminologies to describe a trend towards more open business models and a closer collaboration with customers. On this page we gather a list of inspiring examples. Invision Craft Sketch Photoshop Let's talk Intermediary platforms.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, co-creation… overlapping terminologies to describe a trend towards more open business models and a closer collaboration with customers. On this page we gather a list of inspiring examples. Invision Craft Sketch Photoshop Let's talk Intermediary platforms.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 18, 2018

This could be for a number of reasons – as a team member who is evaluating and routing ideas, you end up having more visibility in the organization, but you also showcase your ability to solve problems and network solutions. You Create a System Where Ideas Flourish. How else has innovation built the careers of others?

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management. What it is: Going by many names, this is the process by which a company can set a challenge that they want ideas for, and gather ideas from hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, both within their organisation and externally.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The Power of Innovation Management Successful innovation doesn’t stop at ideation—it thrives on meticulous planning, execution, and adaptation. Without a structured approach, even the most brilliant ideas risk stalling. Understanding the Idea-to-Implementation Process 1.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

To truly have an impact, best practices should be leveraged company-wide on a platform to encourage the crowdsourcing and sharing of winning ideas, methodologies, processes and other proposed operational improvements. Then best practices can become better through the input of peers, supervisors and management.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 21, 2017

Businesses, even startups, are able to get ideas to market using a different process which includes crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and implementation only after the market is proven. To use open innovation in your organization, you first must shift the mindset of the leadership and stakeholders to understand the crowdsourcing mindset.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Leveraging Innovation Accelerator Software to Support Your Accelerator Innovation management software can play a critical role in optimizing corporate accelerators by streamlining idea evaluation, collaboration, and tracking.

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Wazoku

AUGUST 3, 2017

You are probably familiar with these buzzwords: crowdsourcing, open innovation and a more recent one, co-creation. As an innovation and idea management company we have witnessed successful use and implementation of these processes. How does crowdsourcing differ?

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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

MARCH 23, 2019

I think the execution is a carefully managed one as they do have a very small business base (revenue of $34million at the end of 2018) for in all honesty but I think nearly all software providers in the classic idea management and portfolio space of innovation software solutions do.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. The benefits of crowdsourcing are even more clear in the medical and pharmaceutical industry where breakthroughs could save lives. Q-open is Qmarkets’ specially designed platform for external crowdsourcing and open innovation.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Well also break down the steps to implementing value innovation and examine how idea management and technology scouting can accelerate its success. How Idea Management Fuels Value Innovation Balancing cost reduction with differentiation requires bold, unconventional thinkingbut generating truly breakthrough ideas is a challenge.

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