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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. But what do those words really mean?

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

Qmarkets

Crowdsourcing is one of the most popular applications of this idea. Numerous organizations –including corporations, governmental agencies, and nonprofits – have adopted crowdsourcing as an innovation tool to help them address their most pressing business challenges. There is no need to “rethink” crowdsourcing fundamentally.

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Matching Crowdsourcing to Specific Stages of Business Model Innovation

Qmarkets

I like to argue (for example, here ) that one of the major reasons crowdsourcing has not yet become a mainstream innovation tool is a paralyzing uncertainty over the question which technical or business problem can be successfully solved by using this approach. Internal Crowdsourcing (IC).

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Matching Crowdsourcing to Specific Stages of Business Model Innovation

Qmarkets

I like to argue (for example, here ) that one of the major reasons crowdsourcing has not yet become a mainstream innovation tool is a paralyzing uncertainty over the question which technical or business problem can be successfully solved by using this approach. Internal Crowdsourcing (IC).

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Crowdsourcing Process (Geiger). Stage-Gate Model in Crowdsourcing (Saldanha). Managing Distributed Innovation (Bogers). Managing Unsolicited Ideas (Alexey). Focus stage: Seed Published: 2006 more…. Focus stage: Growth Published: 2006 more…. Design Thinking Process (Stanford).

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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 ). The company recently launched Deloitte Pixel, a worldwide enterprise crowdsourcing offering. General Electric.

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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. After several cycles, it became apparent our marketing managers couldn’t translate the ideas into effective plans. The First Brainzooming Strategic Planning Workshop.