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. So why aren’t you crowdsourcing already? Better Ideas. Lower Costs.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 1, 2020

They delve into their team’s formation and talk about their most successful campaign, which spurred innovation across their organization. For the past eight years, NASA has been running an internal crowdsourcing program with great success. Innovation: The Reality-Making behind the Glamour. NASA’s Internal Crowd.

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InnovationManagement

JULY 6, 2020

Every year, one question tops all the others that our customers might bring to us: how do I increase engagement in my innovation community? We see this question even in the most robust and activated innovation programs.

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InnovationManagement

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Crowdsourcing ideas has a number of different virtues: from improving the likelihood that you’ll source disruptive ideas to lowering the overall program costs of running an innovation program… but there are some other cultural benefits to a crowdsourced innovation program.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Employees, donors, and recipients of a nonprofit’s services see the true and profound value of helping a nonprofit succeed in its mission, which can positively impact innovation in three ways: Motivating participants to share their ideas. Motivating participants to help support meaningful ideas.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

One of the reasons that people love a crowdsourced innovation program is that it levels the playing field for ideas. Crowdsourced innovation allows you to transparently prove and communicate the value of an idea no matter where it comes from.

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Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

The question then arises, how can an enterprise provide greater investor confidence from a range of speculative innovation investments with greater certainty ? Here is where crowdsourcing comes in. Given the multitude of possible failure points and dependencies, therein lies the need for a new approach: crowdsourcing.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He says this product and the company’s innovation program have been key parts of his career. Laszlo Gyorffy is president of EDG, an IdeaScale partner that specializes in innovation strategy. He says surprising things happen when you pull together a multidisciplinary group to crowdsource ideas.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

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. It’s determining what you’ll do with those ideas and how they’ll change your organization for the better that will help build a truly sustainable innovation program.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 18, 2018

There are a number of ways that participating in or administrating an innovation program can help build your career. If you’re wondering how to build careers with innovation, look to these three IdeaScale examples. How else has innovation built the careers of others? Your Great Idea is Recognized !

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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.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. Building An Inclusive Innovation Practice. The process was designed to bring in and launch as many ideas as possible, built on the IdeaScale platform.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

So, your company is investing in innovation, but do you lack the confidence to be creative? A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. Improve innovation leadership. Scale innovation programs.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Companies that do this contribute to overall innovation program health by ensuring a healthy top of the funnel stocked with ideas and allies. Not every innovation program has developed the communications skill set necessary to engage a global workforce or customer base in sharing ideas, developing ideas, and collaborating.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 24, 2018

Contreras dived into the importance of goal-setting and quantifiable metrics to any innovation program. Instead, focus on “actionable metrics,” which are “leading indicators of achieving the aligned objectives of your innovation program.”. Together, they encompass the ePolicyWorks crowdsourcing team. Coast Guard.

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IdeaScale

JULY 11, 2018

This tenet underpins most of crowdsourcing and all open innovation programs. And if this marketer hadn’t shared their idea in a crowdsourcing community, the product team might never have found it. The idea for IdeaScale functions on a simple premise: good ideas can come from anywhere.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2018

A lot of crowdsourced innovation programs will tell you to offer incentives to your community of participants in order to drive engagement – but sometimes that’s a challenge for organization either because of budget restrictions or company regulations.

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

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2018

This year, QED won the Innovation Management award for best innovation realized. 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.

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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

We’re constantly looking for ways to improve, and the Innovation Program provides leadership for that constant renewal. Use your challenges to grow participation, and always keep your radar on for some problem in your organization that could benefit from crowdsourcing.

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IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2017

And then the profile for the embedded innovation group within an organization: A majority of IdeaScale customers have some level of program maturity (between 1-3 years old). Most IdeaScale customers are using their innovation program to collaborate with their employees. The post What Does an Innovator Look Like?

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IdeaScale

MARCH 14, 2019

Listening is key to innovation. Just like innovation itself, an innovation program is constantly being shaped by the environment around it over time. A good innovation program absorbs new information and ideas constantly. The same is true of innovation processes. So how do you refine it?

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Planview

JANUARY 6, 2016

Here are a few things the team at Progressive is really, really good at: (1) creating one of the most iconic brand mascots to ever hit the insurance scene; (2) leading the charge in industry breakthroughs, like data-driven driving services; (3) developing awesome new products, services, and processes with crowdsourced innovation.

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eZassi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

By hosting targeted innovation challenges, organizations can crowdsource solutions, leveraging external expertise to tackle complex problems that internal teams may struggle to solve alone. Elevate Your Innovation Journey In today’s fast-paced market, the ability to turn ideas into reality is a competitive advantage.

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Planview

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Engaging the “crowd” at scale in your innovation initiative has been proven to fundamentally transform companies. In fact, Gartner recently named crowdsourcing as the most effective independent discipline that CIOs can adopt to drive digital transformation. The advantages of crowdsourced innovation can’t be ignored.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

IdeaScale offers crowdsourcing software, because the higher quantity and the greater diversity between linked ideas and concepts, the better an innovation program performs. So these are the categories that we learn from and try to celebrate. Here are just a few of the benefits of succeeding in each one. Engagement.

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Planview

APRIL 4, 2019

Either your organization is innovating or it’s getting swallowed up by the competition. That’s why having an effective innovation program is so important to stay afloat. The challenge for many program leaders and their innovation programs comes down to their level of involvement in the idea implementation process.

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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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IdeaScale

MAY 25, 2017

Identifying organizational objectives, marshaling resources, developing repeatable processes for idea development and testing… but there are a few reasons that people turn to innovation management software to scale the success of their organized innovation program.

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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. How to Use Open Innovation in Your Organization. Today, however, the Internet and information economy has changed the story.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 7, 2017

Creating a repeatable innovation portfolio helps you plan more efficiently, scale resources, and gain insight for the growth of your innovation program. There are five key elements of a repeatable innovation portfolio: Opportunity Identification and Campaign Creation. Idea Collection and Inspiration. Proposal Generation.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As part of our innovation strategist team, I get to speak with a lot of first-time innovators. Developing an innovation program for any organization is no easy task and certainly should not fall on any one person. But how do I know if someone is going to succeed with their innovation program? Let us know!

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

So, your company is investing in innovation, but do you lack the confidence to be creative? A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. Improve innovation leadership. Scale innovation programs.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 3, 2021

In that context, the NRC requires powerful innovation to meet its brief. The NRC’s innovation program started with a voluntary program created by staff called the Idea Greenhouse. Ideas can be solicited through crowdsourcing, shared spontaneously, or documented and discussed as they’re applied in the field.

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InnovationManagement

MARCH 22, 2021

Even the most fledgling innovation program have a research component. Innovation research guides decision making, problem statements, idea generation, solution sourcing, and several other points in the innovation lifecycle. The post How Do Organizations Typically Gather New Ideas?

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

I like to argue (for example, here ) that one of the major reasons crowdsourcing has not yet become a mainstream innovation tool is a paralyzing uncertainty over the question which technical or business problem can be successfully solved by using this approach. Internal Crowdsourcing (IC).

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