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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. All in all, if applied carefully it can provide you with a leading edge of innovation knowledge and insight. I wanted to step back a little and take a more measured look at crowdsourcing over three posts.

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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. All in all, if applied carefully it can provide you a leading edge of innovation knowledge and insight. I wanted to step back a little and take a more measured look at crowdsourcing.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 5, 2016

Crowdsourcing does have a real potential in my mind but does seem to have some formidable issues to work through, to be well understood and managed. Continuing with my exploring crowdsourcing. Let’s start here by raising some of the biggest concerns you might have over crowdsourcing? this source: [link]. Part one is here.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started. How Does Globalization Impact Innovation Strategy?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 14, 2020

If you’re struggling to grow your strategy from something informal into a formal process, outsourcing can bring in experienced teams to help you. Of course, in the case of tools like open innovation and crowdsourcing, you might want the perspective of customers and clients on what they need and want.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This process was carefully established within the community and was popular. It turned out that Davidson had put that process in place just in time. When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, Davidson turned towards its innovation process to address the rapid change and safety challenges the pandemic presented. Facing COVID.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Last week was IdeaScale’s third annual Open Nation summit – our in-person user conference where innovation practitioners from all around the globe share their stories and best practices. It’s a great opportunity not just to learn from some of the leading innovators globally, but also a great chance to connect and have fun.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This is our fifth annual award series and we honor winners in three categories: best innovation engagement strategy, best innovation process, and best innovation. Well, every year we ask our customers what it is that they would most like to learn about in order to support their programs. Engagement. Implementation.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 20, 2017

Engage stakeholders and experts in the process from start to finish. The involvement of stakeholders and experts in the open innovation process is central to the success of crowdsourced open innovation. The opportunity for experts and development team to learn about donor interests or target population needs.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

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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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

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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IdeaScale

MARCH 7, 2017

There are five key elements of a repeatable innovation portfolio: Opportunity Identification and Campaign Creation. When these components are in place, your innovation process becomes predictable and encourages participation across the spectrum. Once you’ve identified your innovation focus, create a campaign.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

More emphasis on data analytics and reporting to help companies better understand and track their innovation efforts. Greater use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate tasks and provide more intelligent recommendations. From < [link] > What holds Innovation software back for companies to adopt more?

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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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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

This year, the US Coast Guard won the annual Innovation Management Award for organization that could demonstrate the best and most repeatable innovation process. That process surfaced numerous valuable ideas that will lead to lives saved in future Coast Guard operations.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Innovation can accomplish great things, even in highly regulated government agencies.?. Five years ago, CDER launched a crowdsourcing program to make better use of its 4,500 employees, and the results have been extremely promising. For their innovation strategy, time-limited challenges work better.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Actively solicit ideas and approaches from them, get information on the challenges and ways to resolve them, and ask what their ideal innovation program looks like. Early on in the innovation process, the resource demands are usually modest, and far less complex than you might think.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. Innovation is hard work yet we seem to make it harder because we “freeze” our understanding of it.

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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. We’re proud to have an innovative culture. But the company’s existing “innovation” process was entirely manual, making progress fragmented, expensive, time-consuming, and siloed.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Overcoming Challenges No implementation process is without obstacles, and common challenges include resource constraints, resistance to change, and the complexity of managing multiple stakeholders. Contact us to learn how Ezassi can help you master the innovation process and achieve measurable success.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Hopefully, this change has enabled better value creation and learning how to innovate. Ideas and feedback are flowing back and forth throughout the innovation process. This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

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. Take-Something-Home Workshops.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

There is growing specialization and client need for tracking trends, exploring technology solutions, IP patent searches, road mapping, portfolio management, foresight and scouting, collaborative ideas management, crowdsourcing, simply collecting inspiration or market intelligence, scanning environments to detect opportunity.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

However, you don’t need to have full-time innovation scouts to get going. For starters, you can crowdsource clues from elsewhere in your own organization. Web-based collaboration tools can capture those insights from the field, and funnel them efficiently back to Innovation and/ or R&D teams.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. And the GSA has learned a few lessons over the last six years that explain their success. Pick A Focused Crowd.

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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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IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

Achieve bigger innovation results through helping others learn and develop their innovation and ideation skill for the first time. After all, due to the rapid pace of change, the skills critical to your success are innovation skills : creativity, critical thinking, communication, strategic thinking, and problem solving.

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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 11, 2021

This data gathering and analysis takes up the better part of our first quarter and our report is generally published in March, but 2020 is a unique year for the crowdsourced innovation community (and indeed for everyone in the world). The post What Can We Learn from the Innovation Averages in 2020?

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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

The idea management platform utilizes crowdsourcing so that your business can suggest possible product ideas to an actively engaged community who will vote and comment upon the effectiveness of your ideas. This is where IdeaScale can help.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

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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Qmarkets

MARCH 3, 2018

Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the Smart Cities initiative could be what makes the difference. Powered by Qmarkets, this system supports Digital Israel’s smart cities initiative not only by allowing anyone to suggest ideas, but also by continuing the innovation process once the idea suggestion phase is over.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 6, 2016

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. Details about the project are stored so that lessons can be learned for future innovation projects. Generating bright ideas is an essential first step to innovation success.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Because it invests customers in product development, it can also be useful from a marketing perspective or if you want to use crowdsourcing, but don’t want to deal with the downsides of the entire internet having a vote on your product. How Should I Use Open Innovation?

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