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Case Study: Medicins San Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)

IdeaScale

Think Up is a crowdsourcing platform that brings MSF’s challenges straight to its team. To learn more about how MSF has built a top innovation platform, check out IdeaScale’s case study. In 2010, MSF decided to make better use of its team and its structure, with the “Think Up” platform. The Solution.

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OUTSIDE-IN [CASE STUDY]

Flying Fish Lab

From Outside the company : we ran a custom-designed crowdsourcing challenge, looking to create category firsts in frozen meals, exploring various territories, including the ones we identified had worked in other markets.

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4 Companies With Jaw-Dropping Innovation Case Studies

PlanBox Innovation

These innovation case studies will uncover a secret weapon that your organization might not be leveraging to its fullest! Well, you can work with external networks of talent and expertise by extending your crowdsourcing efforts beyond your organization’s walls. Innovation Case Study #1: Unbossing the Environment at Novartis.

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Crowdsourcing vs. Traditional Granting: Which Method Most Benefits Social Entrepreneurs

InnovationManagement

In the past, nonprofits and other organizations would fund social enterprises by asking for a written proposal—but combining mentorship and crowdsourcing creates new opportunities and community solutions. Find out how it worked for Pact and the US Department of State in this case study.

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What Kind of Company is a Good Fit for Crowdsourcing?

IdeaScale

After 69 years of growth, Dick’s is a great company ripe for crowdsourcing and they launched their first company-wide ideation platform last year. But how do we know that a company like Dick’s is a good fit for crowdsourcing? Well, here are a few qualities that make a company more likely to succeed in a crowdsourcing effort.

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Inspiration From the Crowd [CASE STUDY]

Flying Fish Lab

Crowdsourcing is an excellent way to get inspiration to solve your challenge or sometimes even generate potential solutions. Crowdsourcing is not just for NPD, it can also be used to help you with your Communications innovation. It’s often used to inspire New Product innovation.

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13 Things to Know About Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

In 2017, United Way Worldwide’s (UWW) Innovation Team worked with a group of eight United Ways to pioneer and test crowdsourcing to engage individuals digitally in a new and innovative way (especially Millennials) using IdeaScale and they learned a lot along the way. Crowdsourcing requires a great question.