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Innovation and the Baskin-Robbins effect

Jeffrey Phillips

I like to eat ice cream at home, and when I am traveling I like to sample the local styles and flavors. Yet another person says "innovation" and means crowdsourcing and employee engagement systems. How to choose This raises another Baskin-Robbins dilemma: how to choose across highly variable projects with uncertain outcomes.

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Innovations in Community Policing: Security & Public Safety for Cities of Brazil

IdeaScale

This summer, I had the opportunity to travel to New York City where I participated in an informative and lively workshop with 15 Latin American Mayors. The Mayors traveled to the United States from Brazil to learn about innovations in community policing. This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees.

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The Growing Value in that Crowd- Encourage it Out.

Paul Hobcraft

The use of crowdsourcing : the goal for me, is to engage and move the crowd towards a new direction, by encouraging out individual thinking and discovery, searching for combining these contributions; ones that lead to novel, new answers that move a challenge forward into a solution, one that has improved value over the existing.

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The Growing Value in that Crowd- Encourage it Out.

Paul Hobcraft

The use of crowdsourcing : the goal for me, is to engage and move the crowd towards a new direction, by encouraging out individual thinking and discovery, searching for combining these contributions; ones that lead to novel, new answers that move a challenge forward into a solution, one that has improved value over the existing.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

For the hardware: A thousand songs in your pocket ; for the software: so easy that your Mother could do it ; and for the project: and on the shelves in eight months ! She primarily writes technological, travel and scientific articles but is versatile and enjoys writing across a broad range of other topics.

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Expert Interview Series: Jennifer Riggins of Happy Melly On Growing Your Brand Using Collaboration And Innovation

IdeaScale

I’ve seen him spending the last couple years traveling the world, bouncing ideas off of members, until he found a void in workshop management software. How can collaboration help workers feel more engaged, and more a part of a company and a community? For sure crowdsourcing ideas is valuable.

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5 Lessons From Running 200 Remote Hackathons

hackerearth

Lesson 2: Hackathons still rule as branding, engagement, crowdsourcing, and upskilling tools . Hackathons are also great for crowdsourcing ideas and offer cost-effective ways of community networking for the organizers. . A 2019 survey showed that Indian employees spend about 7% of their daily hours commuting. And then some.