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Crowdsourced Innovation: Three Things I Learned

IdeaScale

During my first two weeks as a Marketing Intern for IdeaScale, I learned about how the business world operates, particularly how an organization uses crowdsourced innovation with tools such as IdeaScale. Every company says they want to be “innovative” and some of them use “crowdsourcing” to do so.

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Impact of Crowdsourcing in the Healthcare Industry

IdeaScale

Though crowdsourcing has recently gained popularity in many industries across the world, it’s not necessarily intuitive for it to be part of healthcare. However, crowdsourcing has begun to have a notable impact in the health sphere, such as in patient diagnosis, engagement, and more. Crowdsourcing vs. Outsourcing.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

[This paradigm] assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology.” ( Henry Chesbrough, 2006 ). At lower risk and often lower costs, companies can use this strategic tool to explore new opportunities for growth.

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Crowdsourcing vs crowdfunding – what’s the difference?

Wazoku

It can be frustrating when crowdsourcing and crowdfunding are used interchangeably, because they are completely different things. So, what is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing first became popular among software developers: open sourced code was a way for companies to more quickly develop software. appeared first on Wazoku.

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Impact of Crowdsourcing in the Healthcare Industry

IdeaScale

Though crowdsourcing has recently gained popularity in many industries across the world, it’s not necessarily intuitive for it to be part of healthcare. However, crowdsourcing has begun to have a notable impact in the health sphere, such as in patient diagnosis, engagement, and more. Crowdsourcing vs. Outsourcing.

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Strategic Planning Workshop Ideas – The Brainzooming Process Is 10 Years Old!

BrainZooming

We introduced the first Brainzooming strategic planning workshop resembling what we do today as The Brainzooming Group ten years ago, June 19-20, 2006. In May 2006, Dave Kramer, a Senior Sales and Marketing VP at one of our transportation subsidiaries asked us to help one of their company president’s come up with a strategic plan – quickly.

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Getting to Yes Quickly: How Amazon Out-Innovates the Competition

Planview

In an article on Business Insider , CEO of Amazon Web Services – Amazon’s cloud computing business – Andy Jassy discussed what makes the massive billion dollar company different from the competition: “When our leaders walk into a meeting, they are looking for a way to say yes.” Large companies are notorious for moving slow.