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Idea Crowdsourcing at MARTA: Encouraging Innovation in the Public Sector

Qmarkets

The ‘Your Ride, You Decide’ program crowdsourced ideas and feedback on designs for MARTA’s new fleet of rail cars from thousands of riders across the region. Lyle Harris, Senior Director of Customer and Employee Experience at MARTA We caught up with Lyle Harris, who is tasked with running MARTA’s crowdsourcing initiatives.

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Incentives for Participation or Incentives for Success? What Works?

IdeaScale

In a fast-paced corporate environment where there are many expectations and a steady stream of work, how (and more importantly) why, would you carve out time to contribute to your company’s new ideation platform? Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives.

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Avoiding Groupthink and Empowering Introverts

IdeaScale

Although there are lots of benefits that we’ve discussed in our blog before (transparent processes, lower program costs, etc), this comic highlighted two of my favorite benefits that results from online brainstorming: avoiding groupthink and empowering introverts. Let’s dig into why each of these is possible. Avoiding Groupthink.

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The Importance of Decision

IdeaScale

For the first item, our goal is to make decisions that are accepted by all the key stakeholders and are consistent with the goals of your crowdsourcing or innovation program or the goals of your organization overall. For example, an ideation phase is a great time for discussion and a review phase is a great time for decision-maing).

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Questions & Answers with an Innovation Leader from Intel

Qmarkets

In this, the first entry in our innovation management FAQ blog series, we provide answers to these burning questions – and much more! Innovation management software from high-end vendors – such as that offered by Qmarkets – offers gamification and collaboration features to engage users. What is innovation management?

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Lessons Learned About Innovation Communications from the City of Calgary

IdeaScale

In this case, the City of Calgary was a leader in generating engagement with their innovation program. This included nine different channels which included in-person events, meetings, blog posts, newsletters, social media, print media, video, website advertising, on top of the tried and true email. But how did they do it?

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Ideating at Enexis – Driving Operational Innovation in Dutch Energy Sector

Qmarkets

But this wasn’t engaging and employees were left dissatisfied. Out of our 6,000 users we’ve seen 4,000 login, and 3,000 of them are considered engaged. Celebrating Employee Ideas Qmarkets: Wow those are some very impressive numbers, both in terms of engagement and implementation. Michiel: So just to share some numbers with you.