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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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localgov.co.uk: Crowdsourcing for ideas

Wazoku

The advantage of being a large organisation — whether a local authority or a company — is you have a potential resource that frequently goes unacknowledged as a source of ideas: the workforce. This is where crowdsourcing comes in, an idea that has come into its own in the digital age. This is crowdsourcing. What do you do?

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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

IdeaScale

What if the ideas are for something we’re not currently resourcing or ever intend to resource?”. In these two blog posts, we will discuss five best practices for setting a course for idea implementation and managing expectations along the way: Engage experts and stakeholders in the process from start to finish.

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Incentives for Participation or Incentives for Success? What Works?

IdeaScale

Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives. You can also find a list of non-monetary rewards to incentivize engagement on our resources page. . This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees. Let me know devin@IdeaScale.com or on twitter @devinmcintire. —.