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Crowdsourcing and APIs: Everything You Need to Know

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is the act of harnessing the power and work force of a crowd to accomplish a task. Lately, companies creating documentation for APIs have turned to crowdsourcing. It also cuts down on the amount of resources a company needs to devote to creating documentation. Crowdsourcing doesn’t happen on its own.

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

So this post reviews many great contributors to advancing innovation over the years. Agile Development : This approach involves having a flexible and iterative development process, where cross-functional teams work together to deliver software or products in short iterations.

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BIG Ideas: How ICL Built a Billion Dollar Innovation Accelerator

Qmarkets

What can ICL’s approach to crowdsourcing tell us about how to launch a successful idea management program? To innovate better, Croitoru recognized the need for greater collaboration between teams and divisions across the business. If ICL met quarterly to review those, why not treat innovation with the same transparency?

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The Need for Digital Innovation Platforms

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation is struggling to really perform and unleash breakthrough products due to many ‘inbuilt’ inhibitors. Embedded software is becoming more important in value than the physical product. Embedded software is becoming essential within products; from shoes, household appliances, cars, travel etc.

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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.

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The Impact of Stress on Innovation

IdeaScale

million working days were lost due to work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2016/2017. Providing your employees with easy access to helpful resources which improve their work experiences will help them to remain engaged with their company and create innovative ideas. Fortunately there is a solution to these stress triggers.

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Why ignoring your workforce could be damaging your innovation output

Idea Drop

Internal crowdsourcing is cost effective and represents a proactive approach to innovation. Leverage the power of these collaborative minds to boost your innovation output. Rather than let this put you off giving due credit to their input and ideas, it should be seen as a positive way of generating unique and out-of-the-box ideas.