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Evaluating Crowdsourcing – offering a bright future?

Paul Hobcraft

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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Evaluating Crowdsourcing – offering a bright future?

Paul Hobcraft

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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Top 10 Posts from the 100%Open Blog.

100%Open

We have published almost 500 blog posts on the 100%Open blog over the last decade. The great thing about blog posts is that they are not meant to be perfect and they just reflects a series of thoughts at a moment in time. How to Measure Open Innovation Value – The very first 100%Open blog post when we launched 100%Open 8.5

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The Growing Value in that Crowd- Encourage it Out.

Paul Hobcraft

The use of crowdsourcing : the goal for me, is to engage and move the crowd towards a new direction, by encouraging out individual thinking and discovery, searching for combining these contributions; ones that lead to novel, new answers that move a challenge forward into a solution, one that has improved value over the existing.

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Exploring frameworks and methods you need to know as an Innovator

Paul Hobcraft

These were for HYPE and posted on their blogs, mostly under their “Methods & Frameworks ” tag. “Will crowdsourcing provide predictable outcomes? The complete list of all the blog posts is here, certainly worth digging into and going back to refer too.

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Optimising Your Return on Open Innovation

100%Open

We’re bringing our partners in innovation, organisations who have run their own crowdsourcing projects, innovator powerhouses, and remote work legends into the spotlight. 3 – Open Innovation gets you ahead of the competition. A chain implies hierarchy, inequality, and competition for the sake of personal benefit.

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Crowdsourcing V Traditional Market Research Techniques (TMRT)?

100%Open

There is a summary of the points discussed in this blog in the table at the end, to help you decide. This is different from an upfront competitive idea challenge, where you have to be super-clear about the process and the judging arrangements.).