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Origin Story: How IdeaScale Grew from a Simple Idea to a Leading Idea Management Company

IdeaScale

IdeaScale was launched in 2009 by founders Vivek Bhaskaran, Jessica Day, Josh Folk and Rob Hoehn. Hoehn wanted companies and government organizations to be able to gather, transform, and prioritize ideas through crowdsourcing. The adoption rate increased in 2010 to include over 36 agencies and enterprise level companies.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

The Lean Enterprise. Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Focus stage: Growth Published: 2009 more…. Crowdsourcing Process (Geiger). Stage-Gate Model in Crowdsourcing (Saldanha). Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2009 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2009 more…. The list is almost random.

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Qmarkets & Amer Sports – An Innovative Partnership that Created Unprecedented Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

Amer’s R&D team grew from 487 people at the close of 2009 to 802 people at the close of 2016 – amounting to 9% of all employees and 9.5% In 2015, Amer implemented Qmarkets’ Q-max platform for crowdsourcing, sharing information, idea development and evaluation, with tools that drove both white and blue-collar participation.

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Open Innovation and IP Contamination: Are you at risk?

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Since the introduction of the term in 2003, OI has become a way of being for companies looking to keep an edge on the competition, from large corporations to small and medium size enterprises.

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Qmarkets & Intesa Sanpaolo Card: Tailoring Innovation Management for the Finance Industry

Qmarkets

Intesa Sanpaolo Card is a provider of payment solutions, which was founded in 2009 as a member of one of the largest banking groups in Europe. Crowdsourcing success. Intesa Sanpaolo Card. Intesa Sanpaolo Card maintains and manages different type of card-holder data for more than 5.6 million a day and 87 transactions per second.

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Qmarkets & Intesa Sanpaolo Card: Tailoring Innovation Management for the Finance Industry

Qmarkets

Intesa Sanpaolo Card is a provider of payment solutions, which was founded in 2009 as a member of one of the largest banking groups in Europe. Crowdsourcing success. Intesa Sanpaolo Card. Intesa Sanpaolo Card maintains and manages different type of card-holder data for more than 5.6 million a day and 87 transactions per second.

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IdeaScale CEO Shares Innovation Tips with SuperbCrew

IdeaScale

From his background in crowdsourcing software as part of the open government initiative, Rob and co-founder Vivek Bhaskaran founded IdeaScale, which was promptly adopted by 23 federal agencies. Rob Hoehn started his crowdsourcing software career as part of the open government initiative in 2009.?.

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