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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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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

Is your innovation strategy working? 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). Convincing the Grand Poobah. A Legacy of Innovation.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s 2017 Ignite Conference

Planview

Last week was Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. From a scientist who led the innovation team that developed the Ebola vaccine, to a world renown innovation author, to the VP of Watson Strategic Partnerships at IBM Watson, Ignite 2017 was one for the record books. To say that it was inspirational is an understatement.

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

In this blog, we will share the additional ‘innovation assets’ that many companies are yet to include in their business innovation strategy. Benefits of Crowdsourcing Ideas Ideas have a huge amount of potential and can result in a variety of benefits for an organization. Creativity then facilitates out of the box thinking.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s 2017 Ignite Conference

Planview

Spigit’s 2017 Ignite conference. From a scientist who led the innovation team that developed the Ebola vaccine, to a world renown innovation author, to the VP of Watson Strategic Partnerships at IBM Watson, Ignite 2017 was one for the record books. Last week was. To say that it was inspirational is an understatement.

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Internal Crowdsourcing vs. External Crowdsourcing: How to Determine the Best Solution

Planview

Recently I had a chance to read a terrific article in the most recent issue of the MIT/Sloan Management review about internal crowdsourcing. So some ideas may be off-strategy, or simply too costly. Figure 1: Adapted from “Developing Innovative Solutions Through Internal Crowdsourcing” MIT Sloan Management Review, Summer 2017.