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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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Have organizations become more collaborative over 25 years? What has enabled that?

Paul Hobcraft

Ideas and feedback are flowing back and forth throughout the innovation process. This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities. Everyone in the innovation process can contribute, regardless of their position or role.

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

10 – Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Idea Management. What it is: Going by many names, this is the process by which a company can set a challenge that they want ideas for, and gather ideas from hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, both within their organisation and externally. Suggested reading: .

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Updated Model of Design Thinking. Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Crowdsourcing Process (Geiger). Design Competitions. Stage-Gate Model in Crowdsourcing (Saldanha). Value Proposition Design (Osterwalder). End-to-End Innovation Process (Furr).

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Relating to the New Innovation Era

Paul Hobcraft

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. Execution and Value Delivery needs to drive the whole innovation process. Exploring and Aligning.

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

The process of sourcing for external knowledge, patents or technology and to formalize the use of that information in your own innovation process. It has become a main topic of research within design thinking. Customer activities: Route 22: Crowdsourcing. Partner Activities: Route 1: In-licensing.