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The Hidden Culture Benefits of Crowdsourced Innovation

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Crowdsourcing ideas has a number of different virtues: from improving the likelihood that you’ll source disruptive ideas to lowering the overall program costs of running an innovation program… but there are some other cultural benefits to a crowdsourced innovation program.

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Crowdsourcing: Diversity and Inclusion in Innovation

IdeaScale

IdeaScale customers know that crowdsourcing provides a unique and powerful capability for a) promoting an overall culture of DEIA within organizations, and b) developing agency strategic plans to promote DEIA. Crowdsourcing to Promote DEIA. Integrating Workforce Perspective into Strategic Planning.

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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.

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What You Need to Know About Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

Every spring at IdeaScale, we start receiving requests from undergraduate and graduate students around the globe who are researching crowdsourcing and its potential application in the business world. But we thought we’d document some of the most common questions below to tell you what you need to know about crowdsourcing.

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Can Diverse and Inclusive Crowds Increase Innovation by 6x?

IdeaScale

The research is clear: diversity drives innovation in the office and in your crowdsourced initiatives. Leaders play an important role in creating a culture that celebrates and encourages different backgrounds, [.]

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How to Use Crowdsourcing in Your Digital Marketing Strategy

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A new innovation in the digital marketing sphere is the idea of using crowdsourcing to generate or test marketing ideas. With the advent of the use of crowdsourcing for digital marketing, this can truly become a two-way street. Benefits of Crowdsourcing. Plus, crowdsourcing can be fun! Methods of Crowdsourcing.

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Who Makes the Decisions in Crowdsourcing?

IdeaScale

This is the whole idea of crowdsourcing: to gather and synthesize the input of many minds! The governance that you develop for your community will likely differ from this example because it should fit with the culture and goals of your organization and program. The post Who Makes the Decisions in Crowdsourcing?