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Global Crowdsourcing Week 2016

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This week we were delighted to welcome Global Crowdsourcing Week to London for the first time. On Thursday, I presented together with one of our client partners Sarah Bowker from the NHS about a project called HealthWorks delivered in partnership with the design agency UsCreates.

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4 Great Innovations that Started as Employee Ideas

IdeaScale

This tenet underpins most of crowdsourcing and all open innovation programs. And if this marketer hadn’t shared their idea in a crowdsourcing community, the product team might never have found it. Vendasta Technologies is a SaaS company and their new product, WebsitePro emerged during a hackathon in 2016.

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Happy New Year from all at 100%Open!

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2016 hurtled past and gave us plenty of food for thought and inspiration for the new year. If like us you’re in a contemplative mood before rushing to pen suitable New Year’s resolutions, we hope you will enjoy the 100%Open highlights for 2016 and find at least one thing to inspire you. We’ve moved! Pop in and say hello any time!

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How Effective is Open Innovation?

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The three word business case for open innovation is Better Faster Cheaper , and we have helped organisations to put this to the test in recent projects. I want to share an amazing fact (Gawde and Prakash, 2016) – that organisation culture is the most important determining factor of open innovation success.

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Combating Looting from Space

IdeaConnection

Space archeologist Sarah Parcak, the 2016 TED prize winner and a team of researchers have developed GlobalXplorer. This is an online platform that uses crowdsourcing and makes use of satellite imagery to record new archeological sites and map looting activity.

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Titans of Transformation: 5 Outstanding Examples of Innovation in Business

Qmarkets

In order to power their transformational strategy, and generate new ideas for tobacco-free products, PMI has harnessed the power of crowdsourcing. To harness the potential of open innovation, as well as the creativity and flexibility of startups, Nestlé launched its Henri@Nestle project in 2016.

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Wazoku Secures New Funding from Barclays

Wazoku

Crowdsourcing specialist Wazoku secures new funding from Barclays to support further development. Wazoku a UK crowdsourcing company and leading provider of collaborative innovation software, has received new venture debt finance from Barclays of £680,000. Wazoku is a crowdsourcing company headquartered in London. About Wazoku.