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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. 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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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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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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Global Crowdsourcing Week 2016

100%Open

This week we were delighted to welcome Global Crowdsourcing Week to London for the first time. On Thursday, I presented together with one of our client partners Sarah Bowker from the NHS about a project called HealthWorks delivered in partnership with the design agency UsCreates.

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Crowdsourcing vs crowdfunding – what’s the difference?

Wazoku

It can be frustrating when crowdsourcing and crowdfunding are used interchangeably, because they are completely different things. So, what is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing first became popular among software developers: open sourced code was a way for companies to more quickly develop software. And what is crowdfunding, then?