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Examining the State of Crowdsourced Innovation in 2019

IdeaScale

The average number of years a company spends on the Fortune 500 list is dropping. Fifty years ago, a company on the Fortune 500 list could expect to stay there for 33 years, but by 1990, that tenure had shrunk to 20 years. How companies balance their “innovation portfolios” is also important.

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Crowdsourced Innovation: Three Things I Learned

IdeaScale

During my first two weeks as a Marketing Intern for IdeaScale, I learned about how the business world operates, particularly how an organization uses crowdsourced innovation with tools such as IdeaScale. Every company says they want to be “innovative” and some of them use “crowdsourcing” to do so.

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New Year’s Resolution: Catch Up on These Must-Read Innovation Blogs from 2019

IdeaScale

Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Seven Free Brainstorming Tools for 2019. Top Innovation Conferences for 2019. If you’re looking for events in 2020 hosting some of the top thought leaders of today, check out these top conferences from 2019.

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IdeaScale’s Open Nation 2019 Set to Inspire Innovation

IdeaScale

The spotlight will be on creativity, communication, inspiration, and innovation leadership at Open Nation 2019, IdeaScale’s annual conference set for Oct. Developing an effective innovation team takes time and money, and companies want a return on their investment. Crowdsourcing in the military? 24-25 in Washington, D.C.

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Top Jobs for Innovation Professionals in 2019

IdeaScale

Companies in every industry are accepting that complacency and failure to innovate are tantamount to negligence. While there are many job titles for innovation professionals in 2019, the following are among the most prominent. An innovation consultant is someone brought in by a company, usually for a defined period of time.

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Emerging Trends Impacting the Financial Sector in 2019

IdeaScale

What trends in innovation will affect finance in 2019? Crowdsourcing And Open Innovation. As a result, crowdsourcing ideas and approaches faced slow going in this sector as institutions have worked out the boundaries between what customers can weigh in on and what needs to be tucked away in the vault.

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

Qmarkets

Hochschild Mining is a leading silver and gold mining company based in Lima, Peru. In business for over a century, the company continues to be run by the Hochschild family to this day. To deliver on those goals, Hochschild gathers ideas from right across its company to reduce waste and improve its processes.