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Case Study: Medicins San Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)

IdeaScale

Overview: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has always been in need of innovation, so it took advantage of its natural organizational structure and the broad range of talent involved to develop a new innovation unit in 2010 that was updated in 2017 and has produced several improvements to how MSF does its crucial work.

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4 Companies With Jaw-Dropping Innovation Case Studies

PlanBox Innovation

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?

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Crowdsourcing vs. Traditional Granting: Which Method Most Benefits Social Entrepreneurs

InnovationManagement

Open innovation can be organized into a more inclusive granting mechanism. In the past, nonprofits and other organizations would fund social enterprises by asking for a written proposal—but combining mentorship and crowdsourcing creates new opportunities and community solutions.

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Inspiration From the Crowd [CASE STUDY]

Flying Fish Lab

Crowdsourcing is an excellent way to get inspiration to solve your challenge or sometimes even generate potential solutions. It’s often used to inspire New Product innovation. Crowdsourcing is not just for NPD, it can also be used to help you with your Communications innovation.

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What Kind of Company is a Good Fit for Crowdsourcing?

IdeaScale

After 69 years of growth, Dick’s is a great company ripe for crowdsourcing and they launched their first company-wide ideation platform last year. But how do we know that a company like Dick’s is a good fit for crowdsourcing? Well, here are a few qualities that make a company more likely to succeed in a crowdsourcing effort.

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Should you Choose Tech Scouting or Crowdsourcing for your Open Innovation Project?

Yet2

How should you choose the best approach for your open innovation project? Should you opt for tech scouting or crowdsourcing? Tim Bernstein , CEO of yet2 and Christian Cotichini , CEO of HeroX tackle this topic in HeroX’s recent webinar, Crowdsourcing vs TechScouting: Which One is Better? appeared first on yet2.

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13 Things to Know About Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

In 2017, United Way Worldwide’s (UWW) Innovation Team worked with a group of eight United Ways to pioneer and test crowdsourcing to engage individuals digitally in a new and innovative way (especially Millennials) using IdeaScale and they learned a lot along the way. Crowdsourcing requires a great question.