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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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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Focus stage: Growth Published: 2009 more…. Crowdsourcing Process (Geiger). Stage-Gate Model in Crowdsourcing (Saldanha). Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2009 more…. Managing Distributed Innovation (Bogers). Design Competitions.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

Similar innovation strategies can be noted within all fields of industry; from the technology sector to the entertainment industry. For instance, horror director George Romero is heralded by many as the innovator of the modern horror genre due to his iconic movie franchise Night of the Living Dead (1968-2009).

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Proven Social Strategy to Accelerate the Inventive Process

Daniel Burrus

The recent announcement by NASA of a new series of contests aimed at crowdsourcing solutions to problems astronauts encounter while working in space by using a contest raises this question regarding the difference between disruption and tweaking in technological innovation. Why not tap into a large, eager pool of talent?

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

The process of sourcing for external knowledge, patents or technology and to formalize the use of that information in your own innovation process. Outbound Open Innovation is a core principle of the Open Innovation Paradigm and includes for instance also spin-offs and spin-outs. Route 10: Co-design.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

It’s estimated that a loss of more than $2 trillion in world-wide economic growth occurred between the second quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009. To gain that all-important edge, it’s advisable to survey the marketplace – through crowdsourcing projects, ? to see where disruptive innovation efforts could best be concentrated.