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How Crowdsourcing is Shaping the Future of Digital Interaction

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is quickly evolving and gaining notoriety in the business world. According to a study performed by the company Eyeka in 2014, in the past 10 years, 85% of the top global brands have used crowdsourcing efforts within their company. Interacting digitally through crowdsourcing is the quickest way this can be done.

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Crowdsourcing Trends Shaping the Future of Innovation

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Most businesses understand the importance of crowdsourcing, and as a result, are implementing it into their business plans. Decentralization.

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Three Ways Government Agencies Can Do More With Less —Right Now

IdeaScale

In fact, with just two ideas the government saved more than $42M by the year 2014 while using IdeaScale technology. 3) Employee empowerment and crowdsourcing: According to a 2010 report by the National Performance Management Advisory Commission, “to make real improvements, organizational culture must also be addressed.”

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Crowdsourcing at Work: Open Innovation with Unilever’s Foundry IDEAS™

Planview

Crowdsourcing solutions gives us the best chance of driving real, lasting change — in fact, 85% of the 2014 Best Global Brands have used crowdsourcing in the last ten years. Be a Part of the Crowdsourcing Solution.

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Crowdsourcing with the Competition: Rewarding Venture or Precarious Proposition?

Qmarkets

Why your company needs to think about crowdsourcing with the competition…. The benefits of crowdsourcing are even more clear in the medical and pharmaceutical industry where breakthroughs could save lives. Q-open is Qmarkets’ specially designed platform for external crowdsourcing and open innovation.

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Crowdfunding Efforts in the Wake of Harvey, Irma, Maria and the Earthquake

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing covers a number of activities. Obviously, you can collect ideas and collaborate on their development using a tool like IdeaScale, but crowdsourcing can also be used to gather funds from the public and when that happens, it’s called crowdfunding. It could be used to share knowledge as you do on Quora or Wikipedia.

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A Look Back at the Innovation Management Awards

IdeaScale

2014 : Department of Energy. Crowdsourcing a winning ballot measure! Empowering staff to shape the future of the ITS organization. Finding the 5 Solar IT Start-Ups You Need to Know. Department of Labor. Identifying employment opportunities for people with disabilities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).