IdeaScale

JUNE 15, 2017

Open innovation vs. crowdsourcing can be a tough call. What’s the difference between crowdsourcing and open innovation? Crowdsourcing Vs. Open Innovation. Crowdsourcing is when you open it up to the public, usually starting with your customer base, to get ideas or to perform tasks. An idea can come from anywhere.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Crowdsourcing is a favored method of gathering data for product innovation. Companies use crowdsourcing for product innovation and focus groups for market research to gather the most relevant and useful data. However, crowdsourcing hasn’t replaced focus groups the way streaming music made your CD collection irrelevant.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Though crowdsourcing has recently gained popularity in many industries across the world, it’s not necessarily intuitive for it to be part of healthcare. However, crowdsourcing has begun to have a notable impact in the health sphere, such as in patient diagnosis, engagement, and more. Crowdsourcing vs. Outsourcing.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 3, 2017

Don’t get frustrated with your crowdsourcing campaign. Crowdsourcing and open innovation are great ideas. Too many ideas fall into a crowdsourcing gap, so here are the problems to avoid. By far the biggest problem is people have an idea and decide, vaguely, to throw crowdsourcing at the problem. Ignoring Marketing.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In 2017, United Way Worldwide’s (UWW) Innovation Team worked with a group of eight United Ways to pioneer and test crowdsourcing to engage individuals digitally in a new and innovative way (especially Millennials) using IdeaScale and they learned a lot along the way. Crowdsourcing requires a great question.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Crowdsourcing is just one facet of innovation strategy. So, if crowdsourcing doesn’t work for your specific issue, here’s how to bolster innovation without it. Pay attention to their press releases, who they’re hiring, and what areas of your market they’re penetrating. Look Internally.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 21, 2017

Why is crowdsourcing right for you? Many people tend to view crowdsourcing, internal or external, and internal teamwork as either/or propositions; one tends to be the backup for the other. Crowdsourcing allows you to include more perspectives and ideas, to everyone’s benefit. Crowdsourcing isn’t one size fits all.

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 30, 2019

How do you choose which of your great ideas should get the money and people needed to bring it to market? But if you do not have such an app or you just want something more immediate and engaging then try setting up an innovation market. Try using the wisdom of crowds. Here is it how it works.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 15, 2016

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? Ask your customers!

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

Ideascale and Betterific announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform. It also creates an effective feedback loop to assist in refining ideas and targeted markets.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Knowing that they had a wealth of knowledge within their campus network, the steering committee and the working group launched a crowdsourcing campaign to their students asking for ways to reduce costs that would help the President meet his commitment. The post Crowdsourcing Ways to Save Students Money appeared first on IdeaScale.

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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. Here are some of the most commonly cited benefits of crowdsourced innovation management.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 9, 2021

Overview: The value of crowdsourcing is that you can find ideas in the most unusual of places. These five, in particular, might surprise you and offer guidance for your crowdsourcing strategy. It was so popular that when it went to market a few months later, it sold millions of units and was awarded project of the year.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 10, 2021

There’s no better demonstration of the power of crowdsourcing than proof of it in action. Here are four examples of crowdsourcing in action improving everything from financial services to government communications. So the bank turned to its internal crowdsourcing group , UpSquad, for ideas.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

Ideascale and Betteriffic announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform. It also creates an effective feedback loop to assist in refining ideas and targeted markets.

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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. Crowdsourcing does have both the potential to point towards disrupting possibilities, extends the concept of open innovation into a wider source of participation from a diverse community not possible to reach by other means as effectively.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 13, 2016

How are firms using crowdsourcing? Ideascale have published a white paper on crowdsourcing which you can download. This is when you use crowdsourcing to find the solution to a difficult or complex problem. This is when you use crowdsourcing to find the solution to a difficult or complex problem. Solution Finding.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Though crowdsourcing has recently gained popularity in many industries across the world, it’s not necessarily intuitive for it to be part of healthcare. However, crowdsourcing has begun to have a notable impact in the health sphere, such as in patient diagnosis, engagement, and more. Crowdsourcing vs. Outsourcing.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

There are two huge reasons why it is important to get to market fast: to be the first and money. Get to Market First. In order to stand out, you must do everything you can to expedite the process of innovating in order to be the first to market. The post Why is it Important to Get to Market Fast appeared first on IdeaScale.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It’s about a tech CEO, played by Jeremy Piven, who builds a crowdsourcing platform to help find his daughter’s killer. As an Innovation Strategist at a company that also built a platform that specializes in crowdsourcing, I found the show’s premise intriguing. WOTC : “Crowdsourcing is sifting through the dirt until you find the gold.

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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. Crowdsourcing does have both the potential to point towards disrupting possibilities, extends the concept of open innovation into a wider source of participation from a diverse community not possible to reach by other means as effectively.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In fact, one of its most successful ideas came from Brian Stearns, a guy in marketing. He was a brand marketing manager at TTi. He leveraged his own expertise to create the company’s first purely social marketing campaign for the mister. Stearns is now director of digital marketing at TTi. It changed his life.

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Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

Here is where crowdsourcing comes in. In the above case, the complexity of the innovation portfolio entailed multiple research disciplines, multiple design disciplines, research institutions, market analysts, data scientists, and futurists. Multiple modes of value (financial, sustainability, diversity).

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IdeaScale

JUNE 22, 2017

After 69 years of growth, Dick’s is a great company ripe for crowdsourcing and they launched their first company-wide ideation platform last year. But how do we know that a company like Dick’s is a good fit for crowdsourcing? Well, here are a few qualities that make a company more likely to succeed in a crowdsourcing effort.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Businesses are constantly trying to grow by creating innovative ways to market their products or services to the public. This is where crowdsourcing comes into play, allowing businesses to reach out directly to consumers for ideas, feedback, and even design of certain products. What happens if you don’t attract the right demographic?

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 29, 2021

Yet another person says "innovation" and means crowdsourcing and employee engagement systems. In reality, what this leads to is lots of small projects, where many aren't focused on important new opportunities or markets that are vital for the longer term success of the company.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Businesses are constantly trying to grow by creating innovative ways to market their products or services to the public. This is where crowdsourcing comes into play, allowing businesses to reach out directly to consumers for ideas, feedback, and even design of certain products. What happens if you don’t attract the right demographic?

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2018

Focusing on the future can be difficult, but it is worthwhile: companies that manage for the long term outperform their peers with increased revenue, earnings, and market capitalization.”. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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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. Crowdsourcing vs. Focus Groups: A Comparative Review. Crowdsourcing is a great way to assemble data for product innovation. Think of crowdsourcing as a vehicle for getting well-informed results.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Marketer, Brian Stearns, suggested a new product idea that generated millions of dollars in sales during its first year. In the Covia crowdsourced innovation community, the results were already stupendous: almost $13 million in savings or projected new revenues from employee ideas. Your Great Idea is Recognized !

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 9, 2020

It only took me six years as a crowdsourcing practitioner, but I finally got around to reading “The Wisdom of Crowds,” one of the flagship books in our industry. That being said, ideation is obviously integral in the process of crowdsourcing; you need ideas to solve problems. Everyone has some wisdom to offer.

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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. Opening an Adjacent Market in the Financial Sector.

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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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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Whether you have a small innovation committee or a huge crowdsourcing campaign, you’ll find yourself with a lot of energy that you’ll need to harness, or it’ll disperse in all different directions. What market does it serve? Why A Roadmap? What kind of product do you want to produce?

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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. In other words, don’t focus on number of ideas collected, focus on number of ideas implemented and their quantifiable positive effects on the organization. How can I get me some?”

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Destination Innovation

AUGUST 8, 2018

Open innovation and crowdsourcing take closed doors and open them. They ask all comers to suggest ideas for specific challenges and they collaborate with many outside companies and inventors to bring new products to market. For centuries dockers or longshoremen stowed separate cargoes into ships’ holds.

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HYPE Innovation

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Research on idea markets like Innocentive.com confirms this; the real value of tapping into a community of a quarter of a million ‘solvers’ isn't to outsource R&D but rather to get new angles on old tough problems).

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