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How Consumers Are Crowdsourcing Health and Safety Matters

IdeaScale

However, the data from crowdsourcing needs to be balanced against other expertise, so health professionals need to participate in these crowds and help guide them. Now patients have another option, using social media networks, podcasts , and other tools to crowdsource. So, how can the good be subtracted from the bad?

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Top Strategies to Prioritize Features for Innovation Teams

IdeaScale

Innovation team members have to deal with the needs of users, finances, and marketing all at once. Additional Tips to Help Your Team Prioritize Innovation Roadmap Features. In addition, it is also important to note here that solutions should be developed as a response to users’ needs. Innovation management is a tough job.

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Designing at an Innovation Management Company

IdeaScale

When I joined IdeaScale in late spring of this year, I set out to discover how I could help our customers create and maintain an innovative culture at their company through our crowdsourcing tools. As the only designer on my team, I tend to design on an island. I’m outnumbered by sales reps, account managers, and overseas developers.

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Managing Expectations in Innovation Management

IdeaScale

What do we do if a bad idea is gaining support?”. The involvement of stakeholders and experts in the open innovation process is central to the success of crowdsourced open innovation. The opportunity for experts and development team to learn about donor interests or target population needs.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas. Take the iPod for example.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Collaborative Innovation Software

PlanBox Innovation

Whether it’s Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft Teams or SharePoint, to name a few, we all use one tool or another to communicate with team members. But as good as these tools are for conversations, follow-ups, and meetings, they nonetheless lack the capacity to bring ideas to market through collaborative concept development.

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Managing Expectations in Innovation Management: Part II

IdeaScale

What do we do if a bad idea is gaining support?”. Crowdsourcing can uncover ideas, questions, issues, and approaches you might not have thought of. Some ideas might spark a new direction or approach, and be taken up for consideration for a longer conversation about where your team is going in the future.