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Breakthrough Innovation: A Guide to Game-Changing Ideas

Qmarkets

Open innovation platforms and strategic partnerships allow businesses to tap into a broader knowledge base and accelerate development. Crowdsourcing and co-development initiatives can further expand the pool of potential game-changing solutions.

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Employee Engagement Propels Innovation

Planview

Crowdsourced employee innovation is another option for engaging employees to offer insights into or solutions to a business challenge. Pfizer is using Spigit to run nine awards programs, building a knowledge base of 1,000 high-quality innovation stories and enabling sharing practices across its organization.

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Supply Chain Innovation: Enhancing Efficiency & Resilience

Qmarkets

Crowdsourcing ideas whether through digital platforms (Like Q-ideate ), innovation challenges, suggestion boxes , or structured feedback programsenables organizations to tap into a broader knowledge base. Through creating channels for these stakeholders to share insights, companies can uncover new opportunities for improvement.

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Marketing, Gangnam Style

Harvard Business Review

Another social-network tactic is that crowdsourcing was used to choreograph the now famous "invisible horse dance." Psy's crowdsourcing strategy was limited to just the dance community. Be open-minded, but in a controlled way.

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Crowdsourcing: Diversity and Inclusion in Innovation

IdeaScale

IdeaScale customers know that crowdsourcing provides a unique and powerful capability for a) promoting an overall culture of DEIA within organizations, and b) developing agency strategic plans to promote DEIA. Crowdsourcing to Promote DEIA. Crowdsourcing is also a powerful tool for strengthening the entire strategic planning process.

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Can You Crowdsource a Big Idea?

Harvard Business Review

In this situation, we consciously accepted this trade off for reasons both substantive, like our desire to build on an existing knowledge base, and contextual, such as managing HBS’s inaugural foray into working collaboratively with the crowd. Ask the right parts of your community.

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3 Ways to Build a Data-Driven Team

Harvard Business Review

For instance, at AirBnB , employees post problems into an internal knowledge repository that allows other people to provide answers or solutions. This simple attempt to crowdsource knowledge will elevate the problem-solving capabilities of your team by leveraging its collective intelligence.

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