IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

Ideascale and Betteriffic announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform. We’re partnering up to help you drive your innovation strategy further.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Seven Free Brainstorming Tools for 2019. Brainstorming is where innovation and product development strategy begin, but sometimes you need a little push to get started. Crowdsourcing vs. Focus Groups: A Comparative Review. Crowdsourcing is a great way to assemble data for product innovation.

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Qmarkets

JULY 13, 2017

The False Promise of Traditional Brainstorming. In order to create innovative ideas, Osborne suggested that a group of people should engage in a "brainstorm", i.e. "using the brain to storm a creative problem—and doing so in commando fashion, with each stormer attacking the same objective." Why Traditional Brainstorming Does Not Work.

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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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Betterific

AUGUST 22, 2016

In this installment of brainstorming with an innovator , we invite Laurie Steiner , who won our wireless innovation competition. See below to learn more about Laurie’s fascinating good deeds and how ADDHD is the secret sauce to her brainstorming. MW : What do you do when you’re not brainstorming on Betterific?

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Betterific

MAY 31, 2017

Sterilite launches crowdsourced product. Sterilite , the industry leading manufacturer of plastic storage containers, launched their first ever crowdsourced product idea to the marketplace. . For the crowdsourcing community this is a huge breakthrough. Why crowdsource? How did he turn this idea into a reality? .

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Stephen Shapiro

JUNE 29, 2022

Now we go to three downsides of traditional brainstorming (there are actually MANY more). There are several reasons traditional brainstorming sessions don’t work: 1. Although this is true for group brainstorming sessions, when using other forms of innovation (such as open innovation), this factor tends to have a reduced impact.

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IdeaScale

JULY 24, 2018

There was this great infocomic a few years ago that talked about the virtues of online brainstorming. 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.

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Betterific

AUGUST 15, 2016

In today’s installment of “Brainstorming with Innovator” we invite one of our most prolific and active members, Thomas Williams. MW: What do you when you’re not brainstorming on Betterific? TW: I try to brainstorm everything I can think of that could possibly be a match for what they are looking for.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The challenge is that many innovation strategies encourage sharing all ideas — no matter how outlandish — in the brainstorming and exploratory stages. Learn more about crowdsourcing in finance or download our Crowdsourcing and Healthcare white paper. To just keep soldiering on, doing what you’re doing, is to die a slow death.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You can also encourage active innovation by bringing employees together for group meetings to brainstorm solutions to problems. Crowdsourcing ideas from a diverse group of experts can significantly contribute to your business innovation success.

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Betterific

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Congrats to The Nature Conservancy and all participants in a successful crowdsourcing challenge. Here’s an image she put together. The runners up were: M Sarkar , Donna LeGoo, Grace Charles, Sylvia Busby.

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Betterific

JULY 25, 2016

” This is the first in our “Brainstorming with…” series. Below is an interview we had with Dan, where we ask him about his techniques, some insight into how he brainstorms, and for some suggestions on how to make Betterific even better! MW: What do you when you’re not brainstorming on Betterific?

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Along those same lines, getting to market faster, specifically through using crowdsourcing to accelerate innovation, can save you money on both the front and back end of development. This makes you money on the front end. The post Why is it Important to Get to Market Fast appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 6, 2020

LEAD Innovation Management – an acclaimed Austrian firm specializing in corporate innovation – has transformed their extensive LEAD user network into a digital crowdsourcing platform using Qmarkets’ software. LEAD Proactive makes use of Qmarkets’ extensive idea collaboration and co-creation features. where required.

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Be-novative

AUGUST 16, 2017

GE Healthcare had a recurring practice of involving their staff to brainstorm new product ideas during their annual Innovation Week but was struggling with the quality of their projects.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 18, 2020

Whatever disruptive challenges your company is facing, it is important to remember that your crowdsourcing platform can help you find a solution. To better ensure your company can respond efficiently to changing customer needs during the crisis, you may want to consider expanding your brainstorming initiatives to include external input.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

So how do you level up the entire brainstorming capacity of your workforce? It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. How do you invest in your employees’ creativity? This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees.

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Destination Innovation

DECEMBER 30, 2019

These might be the top choices from brainstorm sessions or from your internal suggestions scheme or from external contributors. But if you do not have such an app or you just want something more immediate and engaging then try setting up an innovation market. Here is it how it works. Choose a limited number of promising initial ideas.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. 2 Brainstorm multiple uses for things: I like to look at objects and imagine how I might use it differently in a situation.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Key Pillars of Innovation Management: Ideation: This is the brainstorming phase where teams generate and capture a wide range of ideas. We can also create Innovation Challenges for your business to crowdsource solutions across a global audience or focus solely and confidentially within curated internal project teams.

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Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

But how can you tell which innovation ideas from your latest brainstorming session will deliver results? Many of our clients use a technique known as crowdsourcing to not only capture ideas, but also help prioritize and select the ideas that are most valuable. One way is to leverage the collective intelligence of your employees.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 19, 2017

Brainstorm and Network: Make a list of the diverse groups of people that you already have in your organization’s rolodex. So be sure to think about all the different audiences you want engaging with your crowdsourcing effort and what each audience values. So as a community admin or moderator, how do you enhance diversity in your crowd?

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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

This practice can be achieved through brainstorming sessions which will enable you to generate a list of possible products and services which you can then test by presenting them to focus groups, conducting feedback surveys and holding one-on-one interactions with your target market. This is where IdeaScale can help.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A 2017 Crowdsourced Innovation Report published by IdeaScale noted that more and more companies are embedding innovation initiatives at their organizations. 2 Brainstorm multiple uses for things: I like to look at objects and imagine how I might use it differently in a situation.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 3, 2019

So how do you level up the entire brainstorming capacity of your workforce? It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. How do you invest in your employees’ creativity? This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Overview: A serendipitous meeting between a city official’s hobby and a freelancer’s brainstorm led to the city of Arlington, TX, creating a stop-motion LEGO movie to explain the city’s budget. Set up a feedback platform to crowdsource ideas internally and externally. The Challenge.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 8, 2021

giving users the means to brainstorm, comment, and vote on ideas – and gamification elements – i.e, Some of these vendors also have features to accommodate advanced use-cases, such as open innovation crowdsourcing, tech scouting. Other staples of this kind of software are collaboration features – i.e,

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Betterific

APRIL 24, 2017

We just launched a new crowdsourcing innovation challenge with a financial institution to help dream up brilliant new ideas for a credit card company to wow its cardholders. Kudos to this brand for going out to the crowd, to our memberbase of design thinkers, idea enthusiasts and brainstormers. What’s your idea?

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IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

Prepare brainstorming exercises in advance so that your hackathon team can hit the ground running. If you would like to learn more about creative ways to develop an innovation strategy, we invite you to download our Crowdsourcing to Innovate Products white paper. Organize your hackathon with both physical and online space.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 30, 2017

It is important to remember that this framework is a brainstorming activity and all problems, big and small, are worth considering. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. Employee Satisfaction. Customer Satisfaction. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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Betterific

JANUARY 15, 2017

She loves the Betterific community, finds tremendous value in the brainstorming and connection with other members and companies. With our crowdsourcing, design-thinking innovation challenges, here is the rewards that winners get: -(1) Grand prize wins between $350-500. (4-5) 4-5) Runners Up win between $25-50. -The Great idea!

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Planview

JULY 3, 2019

The reality is, most ideas that come out of crowdsourced innovation challenges are underdeveloped. Imagine if the Xerox team sat down to brainstorm the technology’s use cases and concluded that it would be foolish not to turn the technology into a consumer good. Brainstorm a desired improvement and reverse engineer it.

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Destination Innovation

MARCH 2, 2018

Frequency – the more brainstorm and ideation events the better. They found that four factors were particularly important for success with innovation and growth. Scale of activity – the more people who participated and the more ideas the better. Engagement – the more active participation by people the better.

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Planview

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ultimate takeaway here is that crowdsourced innovation is an invaluable tool for companies to use to future proof their businesses. When employees are given a way to log their ideas, this increases conversations, debates and brainstorming – regardless if the idea is implemented or discarded in the end. Key takeaways.

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Betterific

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

” She’s participated in numerous crowdsourcing innovation competitions , so it’s not surprising that her suggestion for Betterific is for the platform to host weekly “lightning” challenges. Read on for Kathy’s brainstorming tips and where she goes for inspiration. Great idea.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Open up lines of communication between employees and top management by optimizing corporate communication channels, holding company wide events/brainstorming sessions, or by allowing employees to submit ideas digitally through an employee submission box. Make it ok to brainstorm, to offer a germ of an idea and to make mistakes.

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