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Crowdsourcing and APIs: Everything You Need to Know

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is the act of harnessing the power and work force of a crowd to accomplish a task. Lately, companies creating documentation for APIs have turned to crowdsourcing. Becky Todd, a content manager at Atlassian (a collaboration software company), gave a talk at 2017’s Write the Docs Prauge. Advantages. Disadvantages.

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IdeaScale’s Open Nation 2019 Set to Inspire Innovation

IdeaScale

Harvard Business Review says some common ways of measuring innovation — outside of revenue production — include counting the number of ideas that were put forth and projects in the works and determining the scope of progress on these projects as well as their impact on the bottom line. Crowdsourcing in the military?

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Key Takeaways from Open Nation 2017

IdeaScale

In the next few weeks, we’ll upload the presentation content from the day, which includes some great thoughts from the United States Coast Guard, IKEA, and others, but in the meantime, please enjoy some of these key takeaways that surfaced over the course of two days: Not every problem is a problem to be solved by crowdsourcing.

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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. Start Small And Build.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

The company recently launched Deloitte Pixel, a worldwide enterprise crowdsourcing offering. Pixel will make full use of the power of crowdsourcing to solve a specific problem statement, which is broken down into “pixels,” faster and more efficiently. Also, Deloitte announced a partnership with McLaren Applied Technologies in mid-2017.

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Culture: Innovation’s Biggest Challenge

IdeaScale

Culture is the starting point for the success of all innovation programs and it is also a project that is never complete. To read more findings from our 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report, download it here. The more we thought about it, the less surprising it seemed.

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

Benefits of Crowdsourcing Ideas Ideas have a huge amount of potential and can result in a variety of benefits for an organization. Challenges of Crowdsourcing Ideas As with most things, there is always a downside! Resulting in an increase in productivity and efficiency, reduced project costs and higher customer service standards.