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3 Vital Idea Crowdsourcing Best Practices from the 2021 Suez Canal Obstruction

Qmarkets

In recent years, the concept of crowdsourcing has become an increasingly common tool used in response to large scale crises and world events. From the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 to the Covid-19 solutions marketplace in Israel last year, crowdsourcing has been proven as an effective way to gather solutions and solve problems.

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What is Crowdsourcing, and How Can it Add Value to Your Enterprise?

Qmarkets

Since the 2004 publication of James Surowiecki’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of Crowds , the idea that large groups of people can be smarter than a few individuals, no matter how brilliant, has been gradually gaining prominence in academic circles, business communities, and public opinion.

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Three Vital Idea Crowdsourcing Best Practices from the 2021 Suez Canal Obstruction

Qmarkets

In recent years, the concept of crowdsourcing has become an increasingly common tool used in response to large scale crises and world events. So, in March 2021 when one of the world’s busiest trade routes became firmly blocked by a seemingly immovable container ship, it was another opportunity for crowdsourcing to prove its value.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Crowdsourcing Process (Geiger). Stage-Gate Model in Crowdsourcing (Saldanha). Focus stage: Growth Published: 2004 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2004 more…. Process of Creativity (Gill). Creative Problem Solving (Isaksen). Design Thinking Process (Stanford).

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Innovation Management: Importance, Ideas, and Examples

Acuvate

However, crowdsourcing innovation from employees can harness your organization’s creative ability besides your business growth. Crowdsourcing innovation is slowly making its debut in the digital workplace and that too with high expectations. This gives only a one-dimensional lookout for a specific business challenge.

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

hackerearth

Being innovative or creative looks like an inherent trait to most of us, doesn’t it? However, if you’ve been one of those lucky ones who had “creativity” as an academic discipline at school, you’d know that it can at least be nurtured. Perhaps, like renowned educationalist, Sir Ken Robinson says, “We got educated out of creativity.”

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