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The Wisdom of Crowds

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It only took me six years as a crowdsourcing practitioner, but I finally got around to reading “The Wisdom of Crowds,” one of the flagship books in our industry. He opens the book with an example most of us know: the crowd that guessed the weight of an ox at a country fair within a pound. Everyone has some wisdom to offer.

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Crowdsourcing Ways to Save Students Money

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Knowing that they had a wealth of knowledge within their campus network, the steering committee and the working group launched a crowdsourcing campaign to their students asking for ways to reduce costs that would help the President meet his commitment. The post Crowdsourcing Ways to Save Students Money appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Incentives for Participation or Incentives for Success? What Works?

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In a fast-paced corporate environment where there are many expectations and a steady stream of work, how (and more importantly) why, would you carve out time to contribute to your company’s new ideation platform? Here’s why: your incentive strategy should be driven by your crowdsourcing objectives.

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4 Ways To Invest In Your Employees’ Creativity

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A speaker series can feature subject matter experts who are passionate about a variety of topics, including creativity, ideation, culture, innovation leadership etc. Host a Book Club, an Article Review and Feedback Sessions or a Video Review Party. Take a well-known book or recent article on innovation and discuss and dissect it.

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Avoiding Groupthink and Empowering Introverts

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When brainstorming and collaborative ideation happens in a physical location, it trends towards polite agreement or staying with the ideas that occur in that small frame of time and receive the most group consensus. To learn more about NYU’s AMC crowdsourcing initiative, download the case study here! Avoiding Groupthink.

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It’s a BatMobile! It’s a Pod Racer! It’s…the Polaris Slingshot (A Tale of Crowdsourcing Success)

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But only Spigit customer Polaris has crowdsourcing to thank for the unique design of the Slingshot, their recently-released three-wheel motorcycle that’s been compared to every superhero transport in the books. Crowdsourcing a Best-Seller at Polaris. The post It’s a BatMobile! It’s a Pod Racer!

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4 Ways To Invest In Your Employees’ Creativity

IdeaScale

A speaker series can feature subject matter experts who are passionate about a variety of topics, including creativity, ideation, culture, innovation leadership etc. Host a Book Club, an Article Review and Feedback Sessions or a Video Review Party. Take a well-known book or recent article on innovation and discuss and dissect it.