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Crowdsourcing and APIs: Everything You Need to Know

IdeaScale

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. Becky Todd, a content manager at Atlassian (a collaboration software company), gave a talk at 2017’s Write the Docs Prauge. Advantages.

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Case Study: Medicins San Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)

IdeaScale

Overview: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has always been in need of innovation, so it took advantage of its natural organizational structure and the broad range of talent involved to develop a new innovation unit in 2010 that was updated in 2017 and has produced several improvements to how MSF does its crucial work.

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The Total Economic Impact of Spigit’s Ideation Management Software

Planview

To address this, Spigit commissioned Forrester Research to conduct an independent study examining the value customers receive from implementing Spigit’s ideation management software. Based on Forrester’s financial model, due diligence, and customer interviews they found the following: $105 million in incremental revenue from new products.

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The Total Economic Impact of an Innovation Program Driven by Spigit

Planview

To address this, Spigit commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct an independent study examining the value customers receive from implementing an innovation program that leverages Spigit’s enterprise innovation management software. ideation management software. Here are some highlights. Download full study.

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Innovation Management: Importance, Ideas, and Examples

Acuvate

However, crowdsourcing innovation from employees can harness your organization’s creative ability besides your business growth. Crowdsourcing innovation is slowly making its debut in the digital workplace and that too with high expectations. Forcing or mandating involvement may lead to frailties in due course of time.

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The Impact of Stress on Innovation

IdeaScale

million working days were lost due to work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2016/2017. For instance, at IdeaScale we have created a unique idea management platform that utilises crowdsourcing. Moreover, a separate Health and Safety Executive article highlighted how 12.5 Solutions for reducing stress within your business.

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

Benefits of Crowdsourcing Ideas Ideas have a huge amount of potential and can result in a variety of benefits for an organization. Challenges of Crowdsourcing Ideas As with most things, there is always a downside! Audiences can range from employees, customers, experts, and partners depending on the challenge.