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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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Overall the software will help companies to manage and improve their innovation process and to get insights from the data generated by it. From < [link] > What holds Innovation software back for companies to adopt more? There are a few factors that may hold companies back from adopting innovation management software.

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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. This model can be challenging if there is no effective communication or system for ideas to be evaluated and implemented across the organization.

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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

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

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Innovation is hard work yet we seem to make it harder because we “freeze” our understanding of it.

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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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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

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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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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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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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. Team Building.

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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

MAY 9, 2024

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. Everyone in the innovation process can contribute, regardless of their position or role.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Here are just a few of the major benefits businesses can receive: Improved Efficiency Automating manual processes, integrating AI-driven decision-making, and leveraging cloud-based systems help businesses reduce errors, speed up workflows, and free employees for higher-value tasks.

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

This whole area has been rapidly modernizing into a product innovation platforms to support key elements of sustainable solutions that maintain, adapt, upgrade, integrate and keep multiple systems of record for designs that due to the platform approach can be easily shared within, across and outside the old environment.

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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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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Create Collaboration Models Open innovation thrives on collaboration , but the type of collaboration can vary widely. Companies should select the most suitable model for their needs, such as joint ventures, partnerships, or crowdsourcing platforms.

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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

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. What Is The General Services Administration? The event was so popular it quickly became an ongoing program.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 20, 2024

Whether it’s refining existing processes, launching new products, or finding creative solutions to pressing problems, having a robust idea system in place is essential. This article delves into the different strategic approaches to building an idea system. What is an Idea System?

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The system, loaded onto a plane, combines a LIDAR scanner, a GPS, and an inertial navigation system, to create topographical maps accurate to four inches of elevation. And other models are crowdsourcing reports from both official apps and social media sources to draw attention to areas of concern. Wildfire Sensors.

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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. This model can be challenging if there is no effective communication or system for ideas to be evaluated and implemented across the organization.

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Open Innovation EU

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Also note that some of the ‘activities’ are rather ‘systems’ that could be tapped into to use it as a source of innovation in stead of an activity that you’ll have to organize and accelerate yourself. Partner systems: Route 16: Sectoral Innovation Systems. Route 17: Shared Facilities.

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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. Too many people think innovation by nature has to be spontaneous and can’t be predicted or planned. Here’s one process: Ideate. Transforming Bright Ideas Into Value. It’s quite the opposite.

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Qmarkets

JULY 14, 2020

While in the past every hospital had to solve their challenges themselves – often resulting in siloed innovation – this platform now allows them to consolidate their needs to be addressed centrally. How Does The Healthcare Marketplace Work?

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The Challenge of Bureaucracy and Slow Decision-Making Bureaucracy is often a significant roadblock to enterprise innovation. The very structures that ensure stability and control can also stifle creativity and slow down decision-making processes. How Does Software Help? How Does Software Help?

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Qmarkets have partnered with Dutch innovation consultants, Pimcy Innovation & Portfolio Management, to offer a comprehensive enterprise innovation solution to companies in the Benelux region. With about 840 employees, active in more than 20 countries on six continents, Barenbrug is rightfully a global player.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Qmarkets have partnered with Dutch innovation consultants, Pimcy Innovation & Portfolio Management, to offer a comprehensive enterprise innovation solution to companies in the Benelux region. With about 840 employees, active in more than 20 countries on six continents, Barenbrug is rightfully a global player.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 23, 2019

A good example of this is open betas for software, where the general public can download the latest version of an upcoming operating system or another tool with the understanding that it may not be stable and that they’ll need to disclose any bugs or issues they find. That can drive even closed innovation processes in powerful ways.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The evolving trend of smart city innovation is one that governments should be wholeheartedly embracing, but as with many government initiatives, seems to be having a hard time getting off the ground. Embedding crowdsourcing and innovation management into the smart cities initiative could be what makes the difference.

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Collective Innovation

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Those tasked with implementing ideas should provide regular updates and there should be follow-up after the innovation has been fully adopted to evaluate how it has gone. When we created the Collective Innovation Idea Management System it was to solve all of these problems and allow full internal or external engagement.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As a result, Qmarkets has gained two major accolades on the CompareCamp.com system – the 2019 Rising Star Award and the Great User Experience Award. Qmarkets attained outstanding scores in each category , achieving eminent positioning among the best crowdsourcing platforms on the site. Marketing Manager, Qmarkets.

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Jeffrey Phillips

AUGUST 11, 2021

Galileo and Copernicus discovered how the Earth moved, and innovated an entire way of thinking about humanity's role in the solar system. In the earliest models, innovation was driven by very few people with access to tools and education, who had plenty of time.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Why FORVIS Needed a New Platform As great as it is to have a firm-wide culture of innovation, what FORVIS needed was a centralized hub so that the EDGE team could have eyes on innovation on a broad level. What they needed was a central hub, a ‘One Door for Innovation’ at FORVIS, through which all innovation initiatives would run.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Banks are opening up to the idea of looking outside of their normal creative processes, by using external sources such as crowdsourcing with customers for their next disruptive technology. Simply put, innovation management is the management of product and organizational innovation processes within an organization.

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