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Have organizations become more collaborative over 25 years? What has enabled that?

Paul Hobcraft

Collaboration, Idealization and the enabling of innovation I have have been looking back at innovation and how it has changed over the last twenty-five years. Hopefully, this change has enabled better value creation and learning how to innovate. Ideation From closed to open: The way ideas are generated is changing.

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What You Need to Know About Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

Every spring at IdeaScale, we start receiving requests from undergraduate and graduate students around the globe who are researching crowdsourcing and its potential application in the business world. But we thought we’d document some of the most common questions below to tell you what you need to know about crowdsourcing.

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Why Agility Cannot Stand Alone

Daniel Burrus

But it is likely that you act quickly and decisively to address the changing factors and conditions after they’ve occurred. This is called agility, and we often utilize agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass. Was agility the driving force behind Uber’s dominance in ridesharing?

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Evaluating Crowdsourcing – offering a bright future?

Paul Hobcraft

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. I wanted to step back a little and take a more measured look at crowdsourcing over three posts. Crowdsourcing must be a powerful concept then? A definition of crowdsourcing that does seem right to me.

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Evaluating Crowdsourcing – offering a bright future?

Paul Hobcraft

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. I wanted to step back a little and take a more measured look at crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing must be a powerful concept then? A definition of crowdsourcing that does seems right to me.

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The building blocks of open innovation lead towards Business Ecosystems.

Paul Hobcraft

Crowdsourced Innovation Challenges: Description: Design and launch innovation challenges that involve a broader network, inviting external contributors to solve specific business problems or contribute novel ideas. Agile Adoption of External Innovations: Description: Adopt an agile approach to assimilating external innovations.

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Innovating During and Post-Crisis: How to Keep the Momentum

IdeaScale

Around 90% of executives say they expect the pandemic to change the way they do business for at least five years. One of the biggest changes to transpire during the last couple of years has been the transition to more “digital” channels for customer service and sales. Here’s how companies can continue to innovate post-pandemic.

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