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Crowdsourcing and APIs: Everything You Need to Know

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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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Does Crowdsourcing Need “Rethinking”?

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Benefits of crowdsourcing: Common Misconceptions In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. Some of the reasons for the slow adoption of crowdsourcing are rooted in the very nature of the method.

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Does Crowdsourcing Need “Rethinking”?

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Why aren’t organizations recognizing the benefits of crowdsourcing? In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. However, many companies still struggle to match crowdsourcing to their specific requirements.

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Does Crowdsourcing Need “Rethinking”?

Qmarkets

In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. Some of the reasons for the slow adoption of crowdsourcing are rooted in the very nature of the method. In this post, I’ll cover this aspect of adopting crowdsourcing.

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

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We recently caught up with Juan Fernando Correa, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. I am a Projects Analyst at Hochschild, but I trained as a mechanical engineer. Please could you start by telling us a bit about yourself and Hochschild Mining as a whole?

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BIG Ideas: How ICL Built a Billion Dollar Innovation Accelerator

Qmarkets

What can ICL’s approach to crowdsourcing tell us about how to launch a successful idea management program? If ICL met quarterly to review those, why not treat innovation with the same transparency? ICL’s employees around the world can submit their ideas on ICL’s ideation platform PITCH BIG, powered by Qmarkets’ Q-ideate software.

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The Road to Innovation: Capricorn’s Idea Management Journey in the Automotive Aftermarket Industry

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Just over a year ago, Capricorn launched its first ever idea management platform, with Qmarkets software as the engine. More parts are becoming software-controlled , and the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) has introduced its own set of radical challenges. “But let me just say that Qmarkets has completely changed my opinion.”