Qmarkets

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Customer-centric innovation is at the heart of everything that MARTA strives for. As part of that effort, in 2020 MARTA started to use Qmarkets’ idea management platform to gather ideas from both inside and outside the organization, in order to drive their public sector innovations. Were there many people to convince?

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is the whole idea of crowdsourcing: to gather and synthesize the input of many minds! If you’re not sure how to set up the governance of your community, you can set up a consultation with an IdeaScale Innovation Architect for guidance. This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees. This is a good thing!

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IdeaScale

MARCH 11, 2023

The research is clear: diversity drives innovation in the office and in your crowdsourced initiatives. Companies that prioritize diversity and inclusion have access to a greater range of perspectives and experiences, which leads to more creative solutions and faster growth.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. All in all, if applied carefully it can provide you with a leading edge of innovation knowledge and insight. I wanted to step back a little and take a more measured look at crowdsourcing over three posts.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. All in all, if applied carefully it can provide you a leading edge of innovation knowledge and insight. I wanted to step back a little and take a more measured look at crowdsourcing.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 7, 2017

As a consequence there is not a “one size fits all” solution – each company needs a unique plan to drive innovation and change successfully. However, successful innovation management goes beyond the research and development department. Don’t leave innovation to chance. Want to learn more?

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hackerearth

JULY 19, 2017

Independent top advisors call for increased EU investment in research and innovation for the sake of Europe's future … Read more. As an innovation technique, crowdsourcing or soliciting ideas from people to work collaboratively or individually toward a common goal has been around for a while. What can crowdsourcing be used for?

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100%Open

JULY 26, 2018

We have published almost 500 blog posts on the 100%Open blog over the last decade. The great thing about blog posts is that they are not meant to be perfect and they just reflects a series of thoughts at a moment in time. How to Measure Open Innovation Value – The very first 100%Open blog post when we launched 100%Open 8.5

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The result was recognized by Home Depot as one of the most innovative products of the year, that was featured on HGTV and in Popular Mechanics. Stearns is humble about his success and quick to mention other team members who helped bring this innovation to market. This post is by Kerry Seed, Innovation Architect at IdeaScale.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Crowdsourcing is one of the most popular applications of this idea. Numerous organizations –including corporations, governmental agencies, and nonprofits – have adopted crowdsourcing as an innovation tool to help them address their most pressing business challenges. There is no need to “rethink” crowdsourcing fundamentally.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 27, 2022

Highlights: The General Services Administration (GSA) founded the 10X program in 2017 to internally crowdsource ideas and new approaches. The GSA’s 10X program has been successful due to transparency, accepting failure as part of the process, and a willingness to discuss why ideas didn’t work.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The Mayors traveled to the United States from Brazil to learn about innovations in community policing. The convergence of experience within these multi-disciplinary fields helped approach the policing innovations with cultural awareness and worldly perspective. This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 20, 2017

However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”. The involvement of stakeholders and experts in the open innovation process is central to the success of crowdsourced open innovation.

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Wazoku

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

An organisation’s employees, thanks to their location on the frontline, are a potential goldmine of innovative ideas. This is where crowdsourcing comes in, an idea that has come into its own in the digital age. This is crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is not the answer to this — but it could help find out what is.

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100%Open

APRIL 15, 2016

This week we were delighted to welcome Global Crowdsourcing Week to London for the first time. Roland and Sarah described themselves as the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers* of Crowdsourcing, which I think you’ll find from the pictures below that the resemblance is almost uncanny.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Recently, well actually, over the past twelve or eighteen months, I was asked to explore and explain different frameworks that the innovator might need to know or at least have an opinion upon. These were for HYPE and posted on their blogs, mostly under their “Methods & Frameworks ” tag. Let me know.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Enterprise businesses are constantly on the lookout for their next ‘eureka’ moment – an innovative solution to a strategic business problem. Of course, most recognize that simply happening upon these solutions is not an option, and that innovation needs to be cultivated and managed effectively in order to become sustainable and repeatable.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 9, 2018

To iron out the funnel that is just right for you, please feel free to request a personal consultation with an innovation architect. This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 1, 2016

When I joined IdeaScale in late spring of this year, I set out to discover how I could help our customers create and maintain an innovative culture at their company through our crowdsourcing tools. Here’s what I’ve learned about designing at an innovation management company so far.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JUNE 11, 2019

I'm going to start a series of blog posts about what 15 years of innovation consulting has taught me. I'm happy to say I've learned a lot about innovation in corporations, and also somewhat excited to say I'm still learning, because the pace and nature of innovation is changing so rapidly. Beyond the why is the how.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

“Open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use of innovation, respectively. Open innovation (OI) uses a mix of approaches, thereby affording higher responsiveness and flexibility while trying to grow beyond its core business.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 1, 2017

This is an extremely common question for new customers looking to ensure that they can justify their investment in an innovation management platform by ensuring good participation volumes. Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 23, 2017

Research has shown that although it’s hard to quantify, companies that exercise two-dimensional diversity tend to innovate and perform better than companies that lack 2-D diversity. — This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees. This post is by Beni Kebede, Innovation Architect at IdeaScale.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As part of our innovation strategist team, I get to speak with a lot of first-time innovators. Developing an innovation program for any organization is no easy task and certainly should not fall on any one person. But how do I know if someone is going to succeed with their innovation program? Track what matters.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 27, 2017

However, this can present some challenges for innovation managers. Some concerns we have heard from innovation managers: “I do not want to overpromise what we’re going to do with people’s ideas.”. Crowdsourcing can uncover ideas, questions, issues, and approaches you might not have thought of. Tveskov, United Way Worldwide.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 2, 2017

It included crowdsourcing , SaaS , cloud-based , B2B , ideate and the big one: INNOVATION. It turns out, not many people know much about crowdsourcing, because they hated the term but loved the real-world stories. We enable our customers to use crowdsourcing for change and improvement within their organization or beyond.

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Planview

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Speed in delivering high-value innovations is a critical differentiator that can make or break companies. According to a Boston Consulting Group report, companies prioritizing innovation—arriving first to market with new and relevant ideas—outperform the MSCI World Index on shareholder return by 3.3 percentage points per year.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Today we continue our discussion of the opportunities presented for innovation in the nonprofit sector, by looking at two other ways to influence innovation capabilities. Promote innovation as an organizational value. Innovation in nonprofits is hard, but the very nature of the problems faced demand it.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 9, 2016

The use of crowdsourcing : the goal for me, is to engage and move the crowd towards a new direction, by encouraging out individual thinking and discovery, searching for combining these contributions; ones that lead to novel, new answers that move a challenge forward into a solution, one that has improved value over the existing.

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100%Open

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

We’re bringing our partners in innovation, organisations who have run their own crowdsourcing projects, innovator powerhouses, and remote work legends into the spotlight. Principle number one is to measure the benefits and the costs from both perspectives in your open innovation partnership.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Innovation management is a tough job. Innovation team members have to deal with the needs of users, finances, and marketing all at once. And now they have to figure out which features should be prioritized for their innovation roadmap, too? The Highly Recommended Models for Choosing the Best Features for Your Innovation Roadmap.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Innovation is essential throughout the entire new product development (NPD) process, but nowhere is it more key than it is in the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) stage. In this blog we will share how crowdsourcing, incremental, and breakthrough innovation can be used as part of your NPD strategy throughout the FFE stage.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Marketing people call it, innovation. What follows are a few pieces of advice to encourage innovation (or creativity) from your employees. The RAS has two main functions; 1) highlighting relevant information in real time, and 2) stimulating pattern recognition to fuel innovative thinking. Leading Staff to Innovate.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Implementing ideas is the key to delivering significant and measurable value to your organization and stakeholders, and setting yourself up for robust crowd engagement in the next round of crowdsourcing. You will also appreciate this after 6 months or 1 year has passed and a colleague ask how your crowdsourcing program is going.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2021

These innovation case studies will uncover a secret weapon that your organization might not be leveraging to its fullest! The collective creativity from this innovation ecosystem is a secret weapon that they’re not leveraging, which translates to missed opportunities and lost value. So, what does this all mean exactly? Lots of ideas.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 6, 2018

A lot of innovators wonder where to get new ideas, but a whole new body of research is emerging about how organizations with higher levels of diversity report higher returns, new revenue growth, and more. This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

Is your organization centralized or decentralized when it comes to innovation? In a company where innovation is centralized, a specific department is tasked with innovating for the entire organization. However, the model can be successful if a team of innovation ambassadors and coaches are in place.

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