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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. It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions. 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. It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real challenges, and connect different voices, that builds into a community that can combine and open up the fields of opportunity for new solutions.

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Crowdsourcing: An Innovation Tool to Overcome the Limits of Remote Work

Qmarkets

The Power of Serendipity And then, there is a feature of innovation that sets it aside from some other corporate activities: its unique dependence on face-to-face interaction. Remember Marissa Mayer, who, shortly after becoming the CEO of Yahoo, banned Yahoo’s employees from working from home? crowdsourcing ?as

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Crowdsourcing: An Innovation Tool to Overcome the Limits of Remote Work

Qmarkets

The Power of Serendipity And then, there is a feature of innovation that sets it aside from some other corporate activities: its unique dependence on face-to-face interaction. Remember Marissa Mayer, who, shortly after becoming the CEO of Yahoo, banned Yahoo’s employees from working from home? Crowdsourcing to the Rescue?

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Managing Expectations in Innovation Management

IdeaScale

However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”. What do we do if a bad idea is gaining support?”. We can address these concerns head-on by setting and managing expectations.

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5. Expertise is the Enemy of Innovation

Stephen Shapiro

Today we move to tip 5 from the book. People who know me, know I am a fan of open innovation and crowdsourcing – when it is done correctly. It is called “open innovation.”. Open innovation is an innovation process where you engage people outside of your organization to help solve challenges.

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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.