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Crowdsourcing During a Pandemic and Different Innovation Roles

IdeaScale

Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. The process was designed to bring in and launch as many ideas as possible, built on the IdeaScale platform. This became particularly important when the COVID pandemic impacted the campus, leading to rapid change.

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Five Must-Attend Innovation & Tech Conferences in 2017

IdeaScale

So, to help you pick, we’ve selected 2017’s most fascinating, compelling innovation conferences to mark on your calendars. Disrupt 2017. There’s the virtual one happening every day: join the IdeaScale community now and add crowdsourcing to your innovation strategy. New York, May 15th to 17th.

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IdeaScale’s Open Nation 2019 Set to Inspire Innovation

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing in the military? After having attended Open Nation in 2017, strategist, innovator and designer Andy Howell tweeted about a new acronym he learned: BORPSAT (Bunch Of the Right People Sitting Around a Table). Is your innovation strategy working? Convincing the Grand Poobah. A Legacy of Innovation.

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Webinar: How The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Recognizes Emerging Innovators

IdeaScale

As the initiative expanded, it became so popular that in 2017 it was formalized as an organization-wide initiative, InnovateNRC. Built on the IdeaScale platform, InnovateNRC is designed to both share ideas and encourage their development and growth. Our webinar will host the NRC to talk about the recent launch of InnovateNRC 2.0,

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How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. The event was so popular it quickly became an ongoing program.

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Add Rocket Fuel to Your Innovation Process with Gamification

IdeaScale

Gamification can take a number of forms, and draw from a number of tropes, especially when combined with crowdsourcing. That was really all the motivation many people needed; Lunar X-Prize competitors will start launching their rovers in 2017. A well-designed gamification strategy can super-charge innovation if done right.

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Are you coming to the Innovation Virtual Summit?

Paul Hobcraft

So there is an innovation virtual summit about to happen between 28th November 2017 and 8th December 2017. The organizers crowdsourced the questions from their global community of 29,000+ corporate innovators , and they never imagined they would get such a huge response. Use this link now .