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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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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. Those ideas then become public policies, products, marketing campaigns, and much more.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

After all, the first portable MP3 players hit the market in 1998 and by 2001 there were over 50 different models available through which you could download and play music from your computer. First launched in October 2001, Apple ‘s portable music device has revolutionised how we all listen to and download music.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Leisa Reichelt

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. You can learn more about Leisa on the Speakers Page and the Program Page of the IDEA Conference website.

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The fascinating story of Giffgaff: A co-creation case study

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In value co-creation , firms benefit from increased innovation capacity and speed, reduced risk, a consistent and rich idea pipeline, and faster time-to-market with promising products and services. Unlike crowdsourcing, co-creation uses a small group of known partners and involves deeper collaboration. Source: The Telegraph.

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

Qmarkets

From mobile innovation solutions to analog internal marketing, gamification, and employee meeting spaces, read our case study to learn all about Amer Sports' approach to innovation today. 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%

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100%Open Past and Future

100%Open

The major shift from 2009 to today is that most large organisations have embraced open innovation as mainstream within their innovation, partnering and investment activities. There are over 300 digital brokerage companies in 2019 and significant consultancies in most global markets. The answer, it turns out quite often, is no.