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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. Here are the three things I learned about crowdsourced innovation from my two weeks working alongside everyone at IdeaScale.

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We require a more dynamic view of Innovation understanding.

Paul Hobcraft

In any competitive situation, the survival of the fittest dominates (Darwinian). Over time you begin to learn and spot different values and skills to know who and what can move you to the higher fitness points where innovation viability is enhanced, as well as understanding is needed to be in place to resolve the challenges faced.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

Is innovation a superfluous fad that just won’t go away, or is learning how to be innovative crucial for futureproofing an enterprise? With the number of users on this platform reaching 100 million in 2009, this venture could be seen as a success. So which one is it? Part 2: A Messenger Ascends.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Competitive Advantage In all circumstances, leaders will and should have strategic priorities on top of their minds. Usually, you need innovation for that, which means that you either adapt to current challenges or lag behind the competition. Why shouldn’t you just give up on innovation when times are tough?

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Innovation and the rapidly changing world of photography

Jeffrey Phillips

This of course follows on Kodak's decision to stop manufacturing film for most cameras, which occurred in 2009. Understanding the job that the customer wants to do, and how that job is changing, is vital to sustain a competitive advantage. If only they could have imagined how to make their photos digital and shareable.

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Fusion, Flow and Fluidity are needed in our Management Practices

Paul Hobcraft

We are caught in a real tug of war within much of what we do in business today; in our responses and reactions to many of the dramatic business conditions we are facing, many deteriorating or being challenged by greater global competition. We are facing a very uncertain future if we base our actions on past practices.

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How To Lead Through Crisis

Innovation Excellence

In many ways, our business never really recovered, but the lessons I learned while managing through it will last a lifetime. Our goal was to do more than just survive, but to position ourselves to be more competitive in the future. We found something similar during the Ukraine economic collapse of 2009.