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2021 Crowdsourced Innovation Report

IdeaScale

Overview: Ideascale’s 2021 Innovation Report finds that 2020 made innovation strategy essential. Even as vaccines begin to roll out and we learn more about the pandemic, the knock-on effects of remote work, lifestyle changes, and unexpected life changes will course through industries and economies. 2020 Was The Year of Necessity.

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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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Three Signs You Need to Tap Into a Crowdsourcing Community

Innovation Excellence

Crowdsourcing has several business applications: funding source, task assignment, knowledge sharing, and more. We find that people are ready to launch their first crowdsourcing initiative when they hit a few key roadblocks: When you want fresh ideas. Crowdsourcing has the benefit of building up a virtuous cycle with a brand.

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Crowdsourcing: An Innovation Tool to Overcome the Limits of Remote Work

Qmarkets

Initial reports painted quite a rosy picture of the remote work experiment. It’s highly unlikely that the hastily written Upwork report was capable – or even attempting – to consider the long-term effects of massive and prolonged remote work on organizational performance and wellbeing. Technology, of course, can help.

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Crowdsourcing: An Innovation Tool to Overcome the Limits of Remote Work

Qmarkets

Initial reports painted quite a rosy picture of the remote work experiment. Crowdsourcing to the Rescue? Technology, of course, can help. Crowdsourcing Challenges and Opportunities Crowdsourcing is a process of assigning internal jobs to external crowds of people in the form of an open call. crowdsourcing ?as

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

Qmarkets

We recently caught up with Juan Fernando Correa, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. J: Of course. I’ve been working here for four years, focusing on new projects for the operations department and reporting directly to the CEO.

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Identifying Opportunities for Crowdsourcing in Education

IdeaScale

Where does crowdsourcing fit in education? But, in education, there’s a lot of room for crowdsourcing, and it can be a source of innovative ideas. The truth is that educators and professors have been crowdsourcing well before Kickstarter came along. But in academia, crowdsourcing can be a useful tool for getting work done.