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A Look Back at Crowdsourced Innovation in 2020

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing can influence innovation. According to a 2017 survey, 86% of companies who incorporate crowdsourcing in the workplace cite employee engagement as a top priority. Data gathered from IdeaScale’s innovation communities provides benchmarks and insights for innovators creating new crowdsourced innovation programs.

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Best Practices for Internal Crowdsourcing: Lessons Learned from NASA

IdeaScale

Learn innovation and crowdsourcing strategy from NASA. Do you want to know the secrets for success through internal crowdsourcing and innovation storytelling? The center was created in 2011 by the federal Office of Science, Technology, and Policy to foster innovation at NASA and throughout U.S. government departments.

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Tools to Predict Your Company’s Future: Scenario Planning and Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

Per Michael Bobick “Given the rapidly changing nature of technology, it is important that designers, researchers, and product managers examine an array of potential futures. Here are few scenario based campaign suggestions: What might our company look like in 5-10 years? Feel free to ask questions or make comments.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Valuation: an off-label use of innovation management technologies

Imaginatik

Increasingly we find that companies want to go beyond idea collection to rigorously vet these ideas against barriers to implementation, in order to develop the most robust ideas quickly. Here is where crowdsourcing comes in. The company was stuck with a big budget number but left many revenue questions unanswered.

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How Crowdsourcing Innovation Helps Your Team

IdeaScale

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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Idea Crowdsourcing at MARTA: Encouraging Innovation in the Public Sector

Qmarkets

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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So Are You Thinking Crowdsourcing?

Paul Hobcraft

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.