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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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Evaluating Crowdsourcing – offering a bright future?

Paul Hobcraft

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. I wanted to step back a little and take a more measured look at crowdsourcing over three posts. Crowdsourcing must be a powerful concept then? A definition of crowdsourcing that does seem right to me. This is part one.

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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. I wanted to step back a little and take a more measured look at crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing must be a powerful concept then? A definition of crowdsourcing that does seems right to me.

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Managing Expectations in Innovation Management

IdeaScale

One of the most effective ways to engage your crowd is to demonstrate commitment to turning their ideas into real value and impact. What if the ideas are for something we’re not currently resourcing or ever intend to resource?”. This week we focus on engaging stakeholders and experts early and often.

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Incentives for Participation or Incentives for Success? What Works?

IdeaScale

Recently a customer asked me if I could share some insight as to what type of incentives really work to drive engagement across divisions and companies. Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives. This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees.

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What is Crowdsourcing, and How Can it Add Value to Your Enterprise?

Qmarkets

Crowdsourcing is one of the most popular applications of this idea. Numerous organizations –including corporations, governmental agencies, and nonprofits – have adopted crowdsourcing as an innovation tool to help them address their most pressing business challenges. There is no need to “rethink” crowdsourcing fundamentally.

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Managing Expectations in Innovation Management: Part II

IdeaScale

One of the most effective ways to engage the crowd is to demonstrate commitment to turning their ideas into real value and impact. What if the ideas are for something we’re not currently resourcing or ever intend to resource?”. Last week we focused on engaging stakeholders and experts early and often.