IdeaScale

JULY 5, 2017

Last year Gartner published an article entitled “ The 5 Most Effective, Least Used Digital Innovation Hacks ” which listed crowdsourcing, differentiated funding, differentiated metrics, startup innovation, and formal innovation management. Here are some of the most commonly cited benefits of crowdsourced innovation management.

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eZassi

AUGUST 30, 2022

Top 5 Ideation Objectives for Innovation [Infographic]. Build your Innovation Portfolio on the best ideas captured through Ideation. This infographic contains the five main objectives for organizations looking to ideate and collaborate more effectively in a competitive landscape. Manage & Automate Ideation.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 1, 2020

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. How to Change the Culture of the Military with Crowdsourcing. NASA’s Internal Crowd.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 26, 2018

Every spring at IdeaScale, we start receiving requests from undergraduate and graduate students around the globe who are researching crowdsourcing and its potential application in the business world. But we thought we’d document some of the most common questions below to tell you what you need to know about crowdsourcing.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Though crowdsourcing has recently gained popularity in many industries across the world, it’s not necessarily intuitive for it to be part of healthcare. However, crowdsourcing has begun to have a notable impact in the health sphere, such as in patient diagnosis, engagement, and more. Crowdsourcing vs. Outsourcing.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

In a fast-paced corporate environment where there are many expectations and a steady stream of work, how (and more importantly) why, would you carve out time to contribute to your company’s new ideation platform? Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives.

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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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IdeaScale

AUGUST 22, 2019

Ideation: “What’s Our Unfair Advantage?”. The ideation process will clearly be different depending on the type of parent organization. Ideation in the health and beauty industry will be different from ideation in the shipbuilding industry. Push the boundaries, but don’t forget where your competitive advantages are.

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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. What immediately stood out to me was that the Ideate stage, which is by far the most frequently used stage by our customers, actually doesn’t, specifically the voting portion.

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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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Destination Innovation

MARCH 2, 2018

They report a significant correlation between ideation rates (generating good ideas) and profit growth. Frequency – the more brainstorm and ideation events the better. They use a metric called Ideation Rate which they define as the ration of winning ideas to active participants.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In that same vein, no thinking past ideation. 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. Problem is, ideation — or the simple posting of and voting on the crowd’s ideas — is only the first step.

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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. The post The Three Challenges of Crowdsourced Innovation appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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InnovationManagement

APRIL 6, 2020

If you’re thinking about launching a crowdsourcing campaign to respond to some of these challenges brought about by COVID-19, now is a good time. The post Ideation in Times of Crisis appeared first on InnovationManagement. We are all learning so much right now and so quickly. And everyone wants to help, so let them.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Our CEO was recently interviewed by the San Francisco Business Times and the conversation pulled up short for a moment when the interviewer (after hearing us talk about the possibilities afforded by an innovation management system) asked us why people are sometimes afraid to launch a crowdsourced innovation program. Fear of Mediocrity.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Most ideation is done in. We want these ideas without a huge effort, without a huge risk and without a huge investment. We also want ideas with impact, that are rapidly actionable and ideally that utilize mostly existing resources and relationships.

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InnovationManagement

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Many have also adopted a “proudly found elsewhere” solution approach, which uses crowdsourcing to ask the entire workforce or even beyond the walls of the organization for solutions to existing problems. The post 7 Essential Ingredients of a Crowdsourced Innovation Campaign appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In the next few weeks, we’ll upload the presentation content from the day, which includes some great thoughts from the United States Coast Guard, IKEA, and others, but in the meantime, please enjoy some of these key takeaways that surfaced over the course of two days: Not every problem is a problem to be solved by crowdsourcing.

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IdeaScale

JULY 24, 2018

When brainstorming and collaborative ideation happens in a physical location, it trends towards polite agreement or staying with the ideas that occur in that small frame of time and receive the most group consensus. To learn more about NYU’s AMC crowdsourcing initiative, download the case study here! Avoiding Groupthink.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 6, 2018

But this entire process reminded me of the importance of diversity in ideation. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. It’s great to experience the diversity of your colleagues outside of the work environment. I highly recommend it, because it can be really inspiring. .

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IdeaScale

MAY 25, 2017

Crowdsourcing helps scale and prioritize the effort of new ideas. Sometimes it even helps them find more resources since people naturally begin to facilitate for and help one another as part of an ideation community. They don’t have enough quality ideas. IdeaScale software offers a range of validation measures for good ideas.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2018

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. QED : Make sure to think out your process past Ideation.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 8, 2017

JUMP is an online crowdsourcing community launched in 2015. This three-way partnership is highly customized depending on the skill set of the ideator, the requirements of the technology and its potential applications. To learn more about Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s use of crowdsourcing for innovation, read the full case study here.

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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. Through their Ideate Innovation program, which the team uses to surface and develop ideas and turn them into award-winning products. Transparent crowdsourcing. Tapping the Crowd.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2017

We also found out that their passionate about SSO, Ideation, Moderation, and IdeaScale’s excellent security features. If you want to learn more from IdeaScale’s customer data, download the 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report. Most IdeaScale customers are using their innovation program to collaborate with their employees.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 16, 2019

To gather possible solutions for your challenges, crowdsourcing. Some have decreasing markets due to the crisis and need to cut costs, while others are looking for other ways to serve existing or new customers. Your organisation is probably also facing a number of challenges.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. I bake into my schedule each day is at least 15 minutes to walk, pray and ideate. #2 So, your company is investing in innovation, but do you lack the confidence to be creative?

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

More and more companies are inviting their employees to participate in company-wide ideation. And if you’re not investing in communications, then you’re not maximizing the value of your crowdsourced innovation community. But with this opportunity comes new challenges.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Along those same lines, getting to market faster, specifically through using crowdsourcing to accelerate innovation, can save you money on both the front and back end of development. In order to stand out, you must do everything you can to expedite the process of innovating in order to be the first to market. Get to Save and Make Money.

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Viima

APRIL 17, 2023

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? So, we decided to write this article and show you the hard facts of crowdsourcing, which will help you decide if this is something your organization can benefit from.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Kanban allows you to visualize your entire workflow chain: from seed stage ideation, prototype development and market validation, down to manufacturing, post-production, scalability, and expansion. It allows you to visualize each stage of your entire ideation, prototyping, manufacturing, and post-production pipelines.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 30, 2018

Ideation: With a properly defined problem and a ton of knowledge resources, you can start ideating. Ideation also means connecting and building ideas so that they become even more impactful. This is going to help you as you begin to FINALLY look for solutions that can actually generate results to those initial challenges.

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Planview

JUNE 28, 2017

Recently I had a chance to read a terrific article in the most recent issue of the MIT/Sloan Management review about internal crowdsourcing. Co-authored by Lale Kesebi at Spigit customer Li & Fung (watch her awesome presentation at Ignite here to get inspired ), I recommend it to anyone considering doing ideation with an internal crowd.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

A speaker series can feature subject matter experts who are passionate about a variety of topics, including creativity, ideation, culture, innovation leadership etc. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. So what can you do to get your employees started on this journey?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

(First post here ) So this post, in a series of three, looks at the answers given by Google’s Gemini on how collaboration and ideation evolved the organization’s ability to adapt and what helped. Ideation From closed to open: The way ideas are generated is changing. I asked Google Gemini five questions.

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