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Innovation Services: In-House or Outsourced?

IdeaScale

Isn’t innovation supposed to be about tapping the potential of your employees while engaging with them on a creative level? Sometimes it takes an outsider to kickstart the creative process. If you haven’t really developed a strategy before, it helps to work with an expert who can guide you through the process.

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Innovation Hacks: Lessons Learned from Successful Startups

IdeaScale

Go Outside Your Company Whether it’s crowdsourcing, open innovation, or another form of reaching out, don’t hesitate to tap into creativity beyond your organization. Asking multiple groups of stakeholders to weigh in will help limit problems further along in the creative process.

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Discovering Analogous Inspiration: Can Crowdsourcing and Artificial Intelligence Help?

Michael Roberto

Source: Pixabay When trying to develop a creative breakthrough, analogous inspiration can be incredibly productive. I have written about this type of fuel for the creative process many times, including in a recent blog post about hospitals and Formula One race teams.

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5 Must-Watch TED Talks to Inspire Your Innovation Team

IdeaScale

It started out not as a new product from the top cycle manufacturers, but a jury-rigged, de facto crowdsourced effort by California bikers frustrated with bikes that fell apart on trails, and invented widely scorned “clunkers” to get over tough mountain trails.

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Unlocking Potential with an Innovation Pilot – 6 Reasons for SMEs to use Idea Management Tools

Qmarkets

Start is a best-practice turnkey solution that gives SMEs the ability to launch an innovation pilot, where various crowdsourcing initiatives and idea management practices can be experimented with. We released a new product edition last month called “ start ” which is designed to meet the specific requirements of SMEs. Quality over Quantity.

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Learning to be Innovative – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact

Imaginatik

Both are integral components of the visionary innovator’s creative process. For starters, you can crowdsource clues from elsewhere in your own organization. There are two primary aspects of a strong Future Building practice – Ecosystem Scanning and Narrative Shaping. Ecosystem Scanning.

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Customer Co-Creation: A Deeper Path to Empathic Understanding

Legacy Innovation Group

Businesses have begun to realize however that rather than – or in some cases, in addition to – spending millions each year on conducting market research in a simulated or hypothesized manner, they can often get better insights, and at less cost, by engaging customers directly in a co-creative process.