Qmarkets

MARCH 13, 2025

Some of the most innovative solutions emerge when businesses crowdsource ideas from employees, customers, and even the general public. But what is crowdsourcing, and why are so many organizations using it to drive innovation? What Is Crowdsourcing? Great ideas dont just come from boardrooms or R&D departments.

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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. Unfocused Strategy. By far the biggest problem is people have an idea and decide, vaguely, to throw crowdsourcing at the problem.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Internal crowdsourcing can change how you do business.?. Internal crowdsourcing corrals problems, ideas, and solutions at your place of work or in your industry in one central location. Why Implement Internal Crowdsourcing? Internal crowdsourcing fosters the exchange of ideas among employees. PDT, Thursday, Sept.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Crowdsourcing is the act of harnessing the power and work force of a crowd to accomplish a task. Lately, companies creating documentation for APIs have turned to crowdsourcing. She describes falling into crowdsourcing management with no proper training. Crowdsourcing doesn’t happen on its own. Advantages. Disadvantages.

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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. Crowdsourcing can be incredibly useful to your innovation process, but it should be just one aspect of it. For some, it may not be the most workable.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 12, 2017

And NASA has taken one of its first steps into its own new frontier: Crowdsourcing. The Crowdsourcing Frontier. NASA’s reluctance to crowdsource in the past has largely been a product of its culture. Some of NASA’s biggest crowdsourcing initiatives have been tied to its desire to know more about the Solar System.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 10, 2021

Crowdsourcing helps you quickly gather a wealth of ideas that lead to positive change. Take advantage of IdeaScale’s innovation services to get the most out of your crowdsourcing experience. Crowdsourcing Approach. The approach to crowdsourcing is different for everyone. IdeaScale Innovation Services.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 30, 2020

COVID-19 has required a faster and more thoughtful change management and innovation strategy from all sectors. The post Webinar: Planning Agency Emergency Response Through Crowdsourcing appeared first on IdeaScale. Some of those lessons learned will be on display July … Continued.

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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. Want to see how crowdsourcing can help your organization? The Solar-Powered Wheelchair. A Better Graduated Cylinder.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 26, 2018

Every spring at IdeaScale, we start receiving requests from undergraduate and graduate students around the globe who are researching crowdsourcing and its potential application in the business world. But we thought we’d document some of the most common questions below to tell you what you need to know about crowdsourcing.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

We’re partnering up to help you drive your innovation strategy further. 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.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 17, 2019

Crowdsourcing can be a powerful tool for helping non-profits generate innovative ideas in the long term. Non-profit initiatives need to be transparent, and crowdsourcing is, by its very nature, crystal clear. While there’s no perfect method of inclusion, crowdsourcing ensures that more voices in the community are heard.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Remote learning, budgetary constraints, and renewed attention on diversity are just a few vital change management strategies. The post Crowdsourcing AMA Event with the Chairperson of NYU’s Administrative Management Council appeared first on IdeaScale. If you work … Continued.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 21, 2021

Our infographic explores when you should collect data with surveys versus developing ideas with crowdsourcing. Using Surveys With Crowdsourcing. As you can see, the big contrast between survey work and crowdsourcing, regardless of the scale, is that surveys are specific while crowdsourcing can be much broader.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

We’re partnering up to help you drive your innovation strategy further. 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.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 2, 2015

Read about how the City of Atlanta crowdsourced ideas from their government employees which resulted in ideas that had a potential cost savings of $7.1 What are some other ideas that local governments can use to include employees in generating creative solutions to city issues?

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HYPE Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2016

Open innovation (also known as user, cumulative, mass, or distributed innovation, or as know-how trading) and crowdsourcing are both affordable, reliable, powerful ways to keep your company on the cutting edge of innovative ideas and products. Here's how you can score with these innovation strategies.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A digital strategy is more than just implementing the latest technology; it’s a comprehensive approach that aligns digital initiatives with overall business goals, leveraging innovation to transform processes, enhance customer experiences, and create sustainable growth.

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

An open innovation strategy is about reaching beyond internal resources to collaborate with external sources—whether they’re customers, academic institutions, startups, or other firms—to discover, develop, and launch new ideas. What Is an Open Innovation Strategy?

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Qmarkets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A digital strategy is more than just implementing the latest technology; it’s a comprehensive approach that aligns digital initiatives with overall business goals, leveraging innovation to transform processes, enhance customer experiences, and create sustainable growth.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

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. Stearns’ story is a great example of this sort of crowdsourced product development. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 6, 2017

Environmental, social and governance strategy (ESG) refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a company or business. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. trillion in U.S.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. It turns out that successful incentive programs require a flexible, multi-faceted approach. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Are you looking for ways to take your innovation strategy to the next level in 2020? Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started. How Does Globalization Impact Innovation Strategy? Crowdsourcing vs. Focus Groups: A Comparative Review.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2018

Scenario planning “stress test” current strategies and encourage individuals to challenge assumptions by understanding various perspectives. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. Scenario planning was brought to the forefront by the Royal Dutch Shell in the 1960 and 70s.

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IdeaScale

JULY 3, 2019

In order for businesses to stay relevant in 2019, they must have an excellent customer experience strategy or else they could be severely hurting their bottom line. Based on this statistic, it is clear that an effective customer experience strategy should be a top priority for all businesses. Understand Your Audience.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

That’s because they try to apply processes and structures that don’t fit their business strategies and cultures. They force crowdsourcing into their top-down decision-making cultures. It reminded me how important it is to highlight the ultimate organizational design principle: Structure follows strategy. first appeared on.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 14, 2020

If you haven’t really developed a strategy before, it helps to work with an expert who can guide you through the process. If you’re struggling to grow your strategy from something informal into a formal process, outsourcing can bring in experienced teams to help you. What Innovation Processes Can I Outsource?

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Define Clear Objectives and Align with Corporate Strategy The first step is to determine what you want to achieve with your accelerator. Teams can submit concepts, and decision-makers can quickly review and filter ideas based on criteria like feasibility, market potential, and alignment with company strategy.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 29, 2021

Yet another person says "innovation" and means crowdsourcing and employee engagement systems. This approach allows executives (if they are willing to do so) to align strategy to innovation activities. Another says "innovation" and means increased investment in product R&D.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Army’s digital transformation strategy has three objectives to help it rise to the occasion. In fact, one subheading in the Army’s strategy calls it out specifically: “Identify and cultivate the skills needed by the Army of 2028 by fostering digital innovation and continuous learning.”

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 17, 2016

So in a three-part series I want to set risk in a better strategic and operational framework but to begin with until we address the alignment issue between a firm’s strategy and the linkage of the innovation activities, innovation fails to make the essential boardroom connections. The third is to manage trade-offs.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 9, 2020

This occurs either within the company or through the use of crowdsourcing and presents more opportunities for bringing people together. According to recent research, 70 percent of companies either have or are working on a digital transformation strategy. The IdeaScale Difference.

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InnovationManagement

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The post What Can We Learn About Crowdsourcing in a Pandemic from NASA? At NASA, the entire NASA workforce expressed their desire to help the nation combat the virus – even though most of their employees were asked to work from home. appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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InnovationManagement

JUNE 24, 2021

As the director of the IdeaScale Crowd community, I recently had the opportunity to share some insights and best practices for innovators who are new to crowdsourcing, and may not have conducted their first campaign yet. The post Five Questions to Answer Before Crowdsourcing appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In this blog, we will recommend strategies for choosing the best features for your innovation roadmap along with the do’s and don’ts of feature prioritization. . In this strategy, feature prioritization is done by understanding which problems are not being solved at present. Customer Pain Points. Customer Journey.

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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. Fear of Mediocrity.

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