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Five Crowdsourced Ideas that Came From Unlikely Places

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Overview: The value of crowdsourcing is that you can find ideas in the most unusual of places. These five, in particular, might surprise you and offer guidance for your crowdsourcing strategy. For World Cerebral Palsy Day in 2013, he asked for a wheelchair that either had an extended range or could run indefinitely.

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Three Real World Examples of Crowdsourcing in Education

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That’s made schools of all levels and the wider education industry that supports them a fruitful ground for crowdsourcing approaches. Three schools, in particular, have used crowdsourcing to make changes for the good of students. Now Columbia uses crowdsourcing to listen and act, making the school the best it can be.

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How Crowdsourcing is Enhancing the Healthcare Sector

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In 2013, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation took a step that many found surprising: creating a prize and asking the world to reengineer the condom. But little noted was that Gates was pioneering crowdsourcing in healthcare … and that it worked. Crowdsourcing only works if it catches the attention of a crowd, after all.

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Build Your Career by Sharing a Crowdsourced Idea

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In 2013, Stearns was 26-years-old. He says surprising things happen when you pull together a multidisciplinary group to crowdsource ideas. Stearns’ story is a great example of this sort of crowdsourced product development. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine.

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A Look Back at the Innovation Management Awards

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Learn more about any of these stories (2013 – 2016) by following the links in their summaries: 2013 : The Cerebral Palsy Alliance. Crowdsourcing a winning ballot measure! We’ve honored a variety of organizations and companies in the past and we hope that we have just as much to learn this year. Marriott Vacations Worldwide.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

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Focus stage: Growth Published: 2013 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2013 more…. Focus stage: Growth Published: 2013 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2013 more…. Focus stage: Seed Published: 2013 more…. Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Crowdsourcing Process (Geiger). The list is almost random.

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Amazon’s Innovative Answer to Same-Day Delivery Bottlenecks

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This is a crowdsourced program that uses gig workers to make final deliveries of products, but there have been problems. In 2013, Amazon entered into an agreement with the U.S. Amazon’s Flex Delivery Program Far from Ideal. Amazon has used its own Amazon Flex service to help with package delivery.