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What is Crowdsourcing, and How Can it Add Value to Your Enterprise?

Qmarkets

Since the 2004 publication of James Surowiecki’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of Crowds , the idea that large groups of people can be smarter than a few individuals, no matter how brilliant, has been gradually gaining prominence in academic circles, business communities, and public opinion.

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The Role of Innovation in New Product Development: Three Approaches for Success

Qmarkets

FFE is the starting point of NPD and is where new product ideas are generated before entering the formal development process. Developing a strategy here is key in creating an efficient and cost-effective idea generation process, but how should you approach this?

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Exploring frameworks and methods you need to know as an Innovator

Paul Hobcraft

These were for HYPE and posted on their blogs, mostly under their “Methods & Frameworks ” tag. “Will crowdsourcing provide predictable outcomes? The complete list of all the blog posts is here, certainly worth digging into and going back to refer too.

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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

The company recently launched Deloitte Pixel, a worldwide enterprise crowdsourcing offering. Using Pixel, we have been able to take new ideas to the crowd in the form of challenges and then collaborate with clients to evaluate and incorporate those ideas to accelerate our effort and our clients’ results. General Electric.

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To accelerate innovation, focus on culture

Jeffrey Phillips

There's an old joke about perspective and laziness I love and have used before on this blog, because it illustrates many of the challenges (and opportunities) of corporate innovation. Therefore, everyone focuses like crazy on the idea generation, safe in the knowledge that they won't be called on to actually attempt to implement them.

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

With every enterprise innovation initiative, the most obvious and commonly prioritized assets are ideas. In this blog, we will share the additional ‘innovation assets’ that many companies are yet to include in their business innovation strategy. This increases the amount of ideas submitted, creativity, and employee satisfaction.

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

With every enterprise innovation initiative, the most obvious and commonly prioritized assets are ideas. In this blog, we will share the additional ‘innovation assets’ that many companies are yet to include in their business innovation strategy. This increases the amount of ideas submitted, creativity, and employee satisfaction.