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What You Need to Know About Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

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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Key Takeaways from Open Nation 2017

IdeaScale

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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4 Ways To Invest In Your Employees’ Creativity

IdeaScale

In an organization which follows decentralized innovation, everyone is tasked with contributing to the innovation process for the greater good of the company. A speaker series can feature subject matter experts who are passionate about a variety of topics, including creativity, ideation, culture, innovation leadership etc.

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Values & Communication for Nonprofits

IdeaScale

Placing innovation as a prime focus and not as side responsibility or allowing it to fall on a second plane is vital as teams that are dedicated to innovation have seen much better results in their innovation processes. Innovation in nonprofits is hard, but the very nature of the problems faced demand it.

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Have organizations become more collaborative over 25 years? What has enabled that?

Paul Hobcraft

(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. Ideas and feedback are flowing back and forth throughout the innovation process.

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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Innovation Goes Beyond Bright Ideas

IdeaScale

Do you have a process in place to do that? Ideation is a necessary step in the innovation process , but it’s only one step. In the Ideate stage, you’re collecting ideas from your source community. In fact, you can easily create a system that you follow for every innovation project that will help you succeed.

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