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Case Study: Medicins San Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)

IdeaScale

Think Up is a crowdsourcing platform that brings MSF’s challenges straight to its team. To learn more about how MSF has built a top innovation platform, check out IdeaScale’s case study. And if you’re looking to develop your own innovation strategy, learn how great teams create great ideas.

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How NASA is Crowdsourcing its Innovation Strategy

IdeaScale

And NASA has taken one of its first steps into its own new frontier: Crowdsourcing. The Crowdsourcing Frontier. NASA’s reluctance to crowdsource in the past has largely been a product of its culture. Some of NASA’s biggest crowdsourcing initiatives have been tied to its desire to know more about the Solar System.

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What Can We Learn About Crowdsourcing in a Pandemic from NASA?

InnovationManagement

The post What Can We Learn About Crowdsourcing in a Pandemic from NASA? At NASA, the entire NASA workforce expressed their desire to help the nation combat the virus – even though most of their employees were asked to work from home. appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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From Inspiration to Execution: Charting the Journey

IdeaScale

Charting the Path Execution is one of the key struggles of any innovation strategy, in part because you generally have to work backward. There are some starting points, including the overall history of innovation, your own company’s institutional knowledge, and case studies within your industry.

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Citizen Science and the Future of Cancer Research

IdeaScale

In 2016, The National Cancer Institute launched the Cancer Research Ideas crowdsourcing website to enable the research community and the public to submit ideas on how best to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. Expand use of proven prevention and early detection strategies. Mine past patient data to predict future patient outcomes.

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Build Your Career by Sharing a Crowdsourced Idea

IdeaScale

Laszlo Gyorffy is president of EDG, an IdeaScale partner that specializes in innovation strategy. He says surprising things happen when you pull together a multidisciplinary group to crowdsource ideas. Stearns’ story is a great example of this sort of crowdsourced product development. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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6 Steps to Getting Executive Buy-In for a Crowdsourced Innovation Program

Planview

In fact, Gartner recently named crowdsourcing as the most effective independent discipline that CIOs can adopt to drive digital transformation. The advantages of crowdsourced innovation can’t be ignored. Pitching a crowdsourced innovation program to an executive team is a lot like pitching a startup to a venture capitalist.