IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2019

Crowdsourcing is becoming increasingly popular in today’s business world. Defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, it clear to see why a company would want to engage in the use. Tells You What Consumers Want.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Crowdsourcing is a favored method of gathering data for product innovation. Companies use crowdsourcing for product innovation and focus groups for market research to gather the most relevant and useful data. Could using one or both of these methods of data collection be helpful to your company?

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

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. Instead of companies hiring an entire documentation team, all that’s needed is one person to edit contributions. Advantages. Disadvantages.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Though crowdsourcing has recently gained popularity in many industries across the world, it’s not necessarily intuitive for it to be part of healthcare. However, crowdsourcing has begun to have a notable impact in the health sphere, such as in patient diagnosis, engagement, and more. Crowdsourcing vs. Outsourcing.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 9, 2021

Overview: The value of crowdsourcing is that you can find ideas in the most unusual of places. These five, in particular, might surprise you and offer guidance for your crowdsourcing strategy. He quickly pitched the idea to the company’s internal platform , and engineers assembled a prototype. The Solar-Powered Wheelchair.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 22, 2017

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? The post What Kind of Company is a Good Fit for Crowdsourcing?

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Internal crowdsourcing can change how you do business.?. Internal crowdsourcing corrals problems, ideas, and solutions at your place of work or in your industry in one central location. Why Implement Internal Crowdsourcing? Internal crowdsourcing fosters the exchange of ideas among employees. PDT, Thursday, Sept.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 10, 2019

The average number of years a company spends on the Fortune 500 list is dropping. Fifty years ago, a company on the Fortune 500 list could expect to stay there for 33 years, but by 1990, that tenure had shrunk to 20 years. How companies balance their “innovation portfolios” is also important.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Some innovative companies take a centralized approach to innovation, while others choose a decentralized method. Research shows 30% of companies utilize one unit to control and drive innovation, while 35% report research results are passed … Continued.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 15, 2017

Open innovation vs. crowdsourcing can be a tough call. What’s the difference between crowdsourcing and open innovation? Crowdsourcing Vs. Open Innovation. With open innovation, you might reach out to your entire company, and sometimes friendly rivals in the same industry, to share ideas and get perspective on something.

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Viima

APRIL 17, 2023

Studies, academia, research, and the myriad of examples from companies are boasting about the amazing results brought by ideas from external parties. A study shows that 85% of the top global brands have used crowdsourcing during the last decade. But is crowdsourcing truly effective to spur innovation?

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Crowdsourcing is quickly evolving and gaining notoriety in the business world. According to a study performed by the company Eyeka in 2014, in the past 10 years, 85% of the top global brands have used crowdsourcing efforts within their company. The quicker information is received, the quicker companies can interpret it.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2019

A new innovation in the digital marketing sphere is the idea of using crowdsourcing to generate or test marketing ideas. With the advent of the use of crowdsourcing for digital marketing, this can truly become a two-way street. Benefits of Crowdsourcing. Efficiency. This saves your firm unquantifiable amounts of time and money.

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ITONICS

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Open innovation , as facilitated through crowdsourcing challenges, provides a pathway for businesses to tap into the collective intelligence and expertise of a diverse group of individuals and companies, transcending traditional company borders.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 3, 2017

Don’t get frustrated with your crowdsourcing campaign. Crowdsourcing and open innovation are great ideas. Too many ideas fall into a crowdsourcing gap, so here are the problems to avoid. By far the biggest problem is people have an idea and decide, vaguely, to throw crowdsourcing at the problem. Unfocused Strategy.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 21, 2017

Why is crowdsourcing right for you? Many people tend to view crowdsourcing, internal or external, and internal teamwork as either/or propositions; one tends to be the backup for the other. The reality, though, is that there’s only so many viewpoints that can be in a corporate team, even in the most diverse company.

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IdeaScale

MAY 14, 2019

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Most businesses understand the importance of crowdsourcing, and as a result, are implementing it into their business plans. Decentralization.

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InnovationManagement

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Many companies are introducing Innovation as a Service, which means an internal group acts as a consultancy that can solve problems for business owners. The post 7 Essential Ingredients of a Crowdsourced Innovation Campaign appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 11, 2017

Fast forward to today: employees can share their opinions, come up with ideas, and help the company in the promotion of a product. This is what crowdsourced innovation management is about and below are the 5 advantages of crowdsourced innovation management. The good thing about crowdsourcing is you can minimize your costs.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The crowd you source from doesn’t have to be outside the company. Crowdsourcing is just one facet of innovation strategy. So, if crowdsourcing doesn’t work for your specific issue, here’s how to bolster innovation without it. Any company worth its salt has a good relationship with its customers.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Smart crowdsourcing yields successful product development. Fortunately, crowdsourcing tools allow the innovation process to involve consumers every step of the way. From toy companies to coffee to hotels, here are brands that leveraged crowdsourcing to encourage innovation. Need a better product? Ask your customers!

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The ‘Your Ride, You Decide’ program crowdsourced ideas and feedback on designs for MARTA’s new fleet of rail cars from thousands of riders across the region. Lyle Harris, Senior Director of Customer and Employee Experience at MARTA We caught up with Lyle Harris, who is tasked with running MARTA’s crowdsourcing initiatives.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 26, 2018

Every spring at IdeaScale, we start receiving requests from undergraduate and graduate students around the globe who are researching crowdsourcing and its potential application in the business world. But we thought we’d document some of the most common questions below to tell you what you need to know about crowdsourcing.

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Destination Innovation

JULY 13, 2016

How are firms using crowdsourcing? Its adoption has been widespread and companies are finding many new uses for the technique. Ideascale have published a white paper on crowdsourcing which you can download. This is when you use crowdsourcing to find the solution to a difficult or complex problem. Solution Finding.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 11, 2023

The research is clear: diversity drives innovation in the office and in your crowdsourced initiatives. Companies that prioritize diversity and inclusion have access to a greater range of perspectives and experiences, which leads to more creative solutions and faster growth.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 5, 2016

Crowdsourcing does have a real potential in my mind but does seem to have some formidable issues to work through, to be well understood and managed. Continuing with my exploring crowdsourcing. Let’s start here by raising some of the biggest concerns you might have over crowdsourcing? this source: [link]. Part one is here.

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IdeaScale

MAY 18, 2021

Until 2020, we’d see core innovation, where companies look for efficiency and new ideas in their internal processes and approaches, as the leading approach. The remaining 62% was evenly split between transformational change and adjacent change, where companies ask for new ways to use their existing resources and tools.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 12, 2017

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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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. Crowdsourcing does have both the potential to point towards disrupting possibilities, extends the concept of open innovation into a wider source of participation from a diverse community not possible to reach by other means as effectively.

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Innocentive

JANUARY 11, 2018

There is an abundance of options available to organizations when it comes to crowdsourcing - that is, putting tasks or questions out to a large group for their input.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 5, 2016

Crowdsourcing does have a real potential in my mind but does seem to have some formidable issues to work through, to be well understood and managed. Continuing with my exploring crowdsourcing. Let’s start here by raising some of the biggest concerns you might have over crowdsourcing? this source: [link]. Part one is here.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. Crowdsourcing does have both the potential to point towards disrupting possibilities, extends the concept of open innovation into a wider source of participation from a diverse community not possible to reach by other means as effectively.

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HYPE Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2016

Open innovation (also known as user, cumulative, mass, or distributed innovation, or as know-how trading) and crowdsourcing are both affordable, reliable, powerful ways to keep your company on the cutting edge of innovative ideas and products.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 23, 2020

The company served a variety of organizations to include the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Hoehn wanted companies and government organizations to be able to gather, transform, and prioritize ideas through crowdsourcing. We are a bootstrapped company, meaning our customers are our investors.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 10, 2021

For example, research shows the COVID-19 pandemic sped up the digital transformation, with companies reporting they are three times likelier to conduct at least 80% of customer interactions online. Crowdsourcing helps you quickly gather a wealth of ideas that lead to positive change. Crowdsourcing Approach.

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Planview

JUNE 19, 2019

To keep up with the modern professional landscape, companies must create an innovation culture that constantly looks for new ways to meet the needs of the customer. One way to do that is through crowdsourced innovation. It happens to every company at some point or another. Crowdsourcing Innovation Effectively.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2021

Well, you can work with external networks of talent and expertise by extending your crowdsourcing efforts beyond your organization’s walls. This is why it’s important for leadership to recognize the power of crowdsourcing : it’s a sustainable process for repeatedly unlocking business value. And to think that all you have to do… is ask!

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