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Identifying the Value of Crowdsourcing: A Talk with Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber

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Traditional approaches to creating innovation strategies are no longer providing effective solutions. Instead, companies are adopting a way of solving problems known as open innovation. One method for practicing open innovation is through crowdsourcing, the process of sharing ideas across industries to solve a common problem.

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Identifying Opportunities for Crowdsourcing in Education

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Where does crowdsourcing fit in education? But, in education, there’s a lot of room for crowdsourcing, and it can be a source of innovative ideas. The truth is that educators and professors have been crowdsourcing well before Kickstarter came along. Some are slightly more in the field of open innovation.

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Successful Product Development Campaigns Highlight the Power of Crowdsourcing

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Smart crowdsourcing yields successful product development. Fortunately, crowdsourcing tools allow the innovation process to involve consumers every step of the way. From toy companies to coffee to hotels, here are brands that leveraged crowdsourcing to encourage innovation. Need a better product?

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Three Interesting Examples of Crowdsourcing in the Financial Sector

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Crowdsourcing can add up in surprising ways. Can finance benefit from crowdsourcing? While open innovation and crowdsourcing are incredibly popular in other industries, the financial industry is necessarily more conservative about the technology it uses and the consumers it listens to. Open Innovation As Customer Service.

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How Crowdsourcing is Enhancing the Healthcare Sector

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But little noted was that Gates was pioneering crowdsourcing in healthcare … and that it worked. So how can you harness the power of crowds and open innovation in the world of medical care? Open innovation can be challenging in healthcare , not least because the idea pushes back against the belief that doctors know everything.

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2021 Crowdsourced Innovation Report

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Overview: Ideascale’s 2021 Innovation Report finds that 2020 made innovation strategy essential. In 2021, we expect to see faster turnaround times on ideas, even faster growth in departments focused directly on innovation, more engagement from leaders, and a shift to transformational and adjacent change in innovation strategy.

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How Universities are Using Crowdsourcing to Innovate

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Innovation starts in more than just the library. Learn how universities are using crowdsourcing. Universities are the source of some of the most powerful changes and innovation in the world. Here’s how crowdsourcing can push innovation further, from major studies to brainstorming tools. How easy is it to do?