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As the director of the IdeaScale Crowd community, I recently had the opportunity to share some insights and best practices for innovators who are new to crowdsourcing, and may not have conducted their first campaign yet. MORE
How are firms using crowdsourcing? 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. This is the classic way to use crowdsourcing to improve a product or service. Similar to data collection, this involves crowdsourcing onerous tasks that would take your employees too many hours to count. MORE
Many have also adopted a “proudly found elsewhere” solution approach, which uses crowdsourcing to ask the entire workforce or even beyond the walls of the organization for solutions to existing problems. MORE
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. To start, let’s understand and differentiate crowdsourcing from outsourcing. Crowdsourcing vs. Outsourcing. The word “crowdsourcing” was first used in 2006 and in the context of Flickr. MORE
The innovation management industry is highly fragmented today, which makes it confusing to understand which methods apply to which scenarios, and what the difference is between those doing crowdsourcing, and those doing enterprise programs designed to facilitate business transformation. Crowdsourcing Frameworks MORE
Open innovation vs. crowdsourcing can be a tough call. What’s the difference between crowdsourcing and open innovation? Crowdsourcing Vs. Open Innovation. Crowdsourcing is when you open it up to the public, usually starting with your customer base, to get ideas or to perform tasks. If you’re consumer-facing, and one of the key stakeholders is your consumers, then crowdsourcing is in the mix. MORE
The creativity of the world has never been more accessible, thanks to crowdsourcing. Yet incorporating crowdsourcing into your innovation strategy can feel like a challenge in need of that same creativity. The post How Can Your Organization Crowdsource Ideas? MORE
This is the whole idea of crowdsourcing: to gather and synthesize the input of many minds! It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. The post Who Makes the Decisions in Crowdsourcing? Best Practice Voice of IdeaScale crowdsourcing decisions governance stakeholdersYou will likely engage your experts and authorities at the earliest stages or your program through discussion. MORE
So we thought we’d look at some of our favorite crowdsourcing and traffic stories. In the meantime, however here are some of our favorite traffic-solving crowdsourcing projects: Waze : Waze is still one of the most powerful navigation tools when it comes to traffic. The post Crowdsourcing and Traffic appeared first on IdeaScale. IdeaScale crowdsourcing luxe Thanksgiving towit traffic waze MORE
The post A Look at the 2020 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report appeared first on IdeaScale. Disruption is a necessary component of innovation. The novel coronavirus has massively disrupted all industries, resulting in brand new questions and conversations. MORE
There are four ways to crowdsource answers to your innovation challenges: garden variety crowdsourcing, distant expert sourcing, expert targeting, and force multiplying. The post The Four Forms of Crowdsourcing appeared first on Innovation Management. MORE
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. What are the benefits of crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing allows knowledge transfer to be real time and validated at scale. MORE
Learn innovation and crowdsourcing strategy from NASA. Do you want to know the secrets for success through internal crowdsourcing and innovation storytelling? NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation — a crowdsourcing platform — unveiled their best practices for approaches to problem-solving on a recent webinar in a move to share what they’ve learned to help others. NASA said this is unarguably the most important part of an internal crowdsourcing program. MORE
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. By definition, using crowdsourcing to generate ideas or receiving feedback for existing ideas speeds up the creation process. Crowdsourcing naturally increases the diversity of the ideas your firm can work with. MORE
No matter what business you're in, you can use crowdsourcing to find great new ideas and solve tough problems. Crowdsourcing MORE
Crowdsourcing is becoming increasingly popular in today’s business world. One of the main reasons why crowdsourcing is increasing in popularity throughout the business world is due to the positive influence that it has on innovation performance. Although there are pros and cons to using crowdsourcing for businesses, I would argue that the pros far outweigh the cons. Crowdsourcing allows you to hear many different opinions and ideas. MORE
During my first two weeks as a Marketing Intern for IdeaScale, I learned about how the business world operates, particularly how an organization uses crowdsourced innovation with tools such as IdeaScale. I didn’t realize how important crowdsourced innovation really is in the business world! MORE
Overview: Ideascale’s 2021 Innovation Report finds that 2020 made innovation strategy essential. MORE
IdeaScale customers know that crowdsourcing provides a unique and powerful capability for a) promoting an overall culture of DEIA within organizations, and b) developing agency strategic plans to promote DEIA. Crowdsourcing to Promote DEIA. MORE
Crowdsourcing can be a powerful tool for helping non-profits generate innovative ideas in the long term. Non-profit initiatives need to be transparent, and crowdsourcing is, by its very nature, crystal clear. The proper crowdsourcing platform allows non-profit contributors to generate ideas and other donors and volunteers to vote on them and refine them with comments and additional ideas. Donors, volunteers, and the communities you serve can all help with crowdsourcing. MORE
Civic engagement is fundamental to good governance, and crowdsourcing is a powerful way to draw in an enormous range of constituencies to hear what they feel is crucial to making their city a better place. Below are a few examples of civic engagement accomplished via crowdsourcing. MORE
Should you opt for tech scouting or crowdsourcing? Tim Bernstein , CEO of yet2 and Christian Cotichini , CEO of HeroX tackle this topic in HeroX’s recent webinar, Crowdsourcing vs TechScouting: Which One is Better? Case studies of both tech scouting and crowdsourcing. MORE
IdeaScale has recently acquired Betterific, a crowdsourcing platform that engages a community of 18,000+ creative problem solvers, design thinkers, and ideators to help you come up with your next big idea. Collaborative Innovation Open Innovation Crowdsourcing Ideation MORE
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. You need a clear, detailed strategy before you start any crowdsourcing campaign. Choosing Crowdsourcing Instead Of Open Innovation. MORE
Crowdsourcing Climate Change Solutions. Crowdsourcing Disaster Response Ideas. Crowdsourcing Relief. The post Crowdsourcing Storm Solutions appeared first on IdeaScale. Best Practice Partner Spotlight climate change crowdsourcing emergency response hurricane florence united wayWe are in the peak of hurricane season here in the US and numerous people are recovering from the loss and destruction in the wake of Hurricane Florence. MORE
Crowdsourcing has been judged to be one of the most impactful, but least used digital hacks by organizations by Gartner. So here are some suggestions that you can use in your IdeaScale community to avoid voting bias in crowdsourcing. The post How to Avoid Voting Bias in Crowdsourcing appeared first on IdeaScale. Best Practice IdeaScale bias crowdsourcing funding validation voting MORE
We were heartened, also, to see that many of our customers and partners are taking this moment to look to their network for solutions and novel responses by launching COVID-19 crowdsourcing campaigns. What topics should we crowdsource that may help reduce the burden of your current work environment? The post Example COVID-19 Crowdsourcing Campaigns appeared first on IdeaScale. We are living in unprecedented times. MORE
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. Want to see how crowdsourcing can help your organization? MORE
Many enterprise organizations use crowdsourcing to find ideas in their blind spots - but how do you launch your first crowdsourcing challenge, and what sorts of questions do you ask? MORE
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. For example, their lunar instruments crowdsourcing campaign focused on NASA’s desire to better understand the Moon. MORE
Crowdsourcing offers a fantastic avenue into a wealth of information that might not otherwise be accessible. The post 6 Key Points To Understand About A Crowdsourcing Platform appeared first on IdeaScale. Best Practice CrowdSourcing Platform innovation community MORE
The post The First Three Things You Learn About Crowdsourced Innovation Management appeared first on IdeaScale. I joined IdeaScale in October of 2020, just before the “second wave” of COVID infections hit the US and an election unlike any other was about to take place. MORE
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. While focus groups have been around for years, crowdsourcing only became possible after the proliferation of the internet. However, crowdsourcing hasn’t replaced focus groups the way streaming music made your CD collection irrelevant. IdeaScale for Crowdsourcing. MORE
Crowdsourcing is an effective way to kick off innovation efforts. Crowdsourcing initiatives increase innovation performance within an organization. Research shows 86% of companies who take part in crowdsourcing activities consider engagement an important part of company success. MORE
Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. The process was designed to bring in and launch as many ideas as possible, built on the IdeaScale platform. MORE
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. Crowdsourcing allows you to include more perspectives and ideas, to everyone’s benefit. Especially with internal crowdsourcing, you can deal with an issue that can crop up; namely, that what seems like a good idea for a small team might be a problem for the wider company. MORE
There’s no better demonstration of the power of crowdsourcing than proof of it in action. Here are four examples of crowdsourcing in action improving everything from financial services to government communications. The post What Are Some Examples of Crowdsourcing Innovation? MORE
There’s no better demonstration of the power of crowdsourcing than proof of it in action. Here are four examples of crowdsourcing in action improving everything from financial services to government communications. The solution used crowdsourcing in two unique ways. MORE
There’s no better demonstration of the power of crowdsourcing than proof of it in action. Here are four examples of crowdsourcing in action improving everything from financial services to government communications. The post What Are Some Examples of Crowdsourcing Innovation? MORE
We encourage you to download the IdeaScale 2019 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report for a deeper dive into the topic of innovation management that gets results. The post Examining the State of Crowdsourced Innovation in 2019 appeared first on IdeaScale. Best Practice crowdsourcing InnovationThe average number of years a company spends on the Fortune 500 list is dropping. World-class corporations spend less time at the top than they once did. MORE
The post Webinar: Planning Agency Emergency Response Through Crowdsourcing appeared first on IdeaScale. Best Practice COVID-19 crowdsourcing innovation responseCOVID-19 has required a faster and more thoughtful change management and innovation strategy from all sectors. MORE
Crowdsourcing ideas has a number of different virtues: from improving the likelihood that you’ll source disruptive ideas to lowering the overall program costs of running an innovation program… but there are some other cultural benefits to a crowdsourced innovation program. MORE
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FEBRUARY 4, 2021
The creativity of the world has never been more accessible, thanks to crowdsourcing. Yet incorporating crowdsourcing into your innovation strategy can feel like a challenge in need of that same creativity. The post How Can Your Organization Crowdsource Ideas?
IdeaScale
DECEMBER 12, 2019
During my first two weeks as a Marketing Intern for IdeaScale, I learned about how the business world operates, particularly how an organization uses crowdsourced innovation with tools such as IdeaScale. I didn’t realize how important crowdsourced innovation really is in the business world!
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MARCH 10, 2021
There’s no better demonstration of the power of crowdsourcing than proof of it in action. Here are four examples of crowdsourcing in action improving everything from financial services to government communications. The post What Are Some Examples of Crowdsourcing Innovation?
IdeaScale
JUNE 23, 2020
Civic engagement is fundamental to good governance, and crowdsourcing is a powerful way to draw in an enormous range of constituencies to hear what they feel is crucial to making their city a better place. Below are a few examples of civic engagement accomplished via crowdsourcing.
IdeaScale
MAY 18, 2021
Overview: Ideascale’s 2021 Innovation Report finds that 2020 made innovation strategy essential.
IdeaScale
MAY 25, 2021
Crowdsourcing is an effective way to kick off innovation efforts. Crowdsourcing initiatives increase innovation performance within an organization. Research shows 86% of companies who take part in crowdsourcing activities consider engagement an important part of company success.
IdeaScale
JULY 7, 2021
IdeaScale customers know that crowdsourcing provides a unique and powerful capability for a) promoting an overall culture of DEIA within organizations, and b) developing agency strategic plans to promote DEIA. Crowdsourcing to Promote DEIA.
IdeaScale
JUNE 30, 2020
The post Webinar: Planning Agency Emergency Response Through Crowdsourcing appeared first on IdeaScale. Best Practice COVID-19 crowdsourcing innovation responseCOVID-19 has required a faster and more thoughtful change management and innovation strategy from all sectors.
IdeaScale
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Crowdsourcing Climate Change Solutions. Crowdsourcing Disaster Response Ideas. Crowdsourcing Relief. The post Crowdsourcing Storm Solutions appeared first on IdeaScale. Best Practice Partner Spotlight climate change crowdsourcing emergency response hurricane florence united wayWe are in the peak of hurricane season here in the US and numerous people are recovering from the loss and destruction in the wake of Hurricane Florence.
IdeaScale
MARCH 10, 2021
There’s no better demonstration of the power of crowdsourcing than proof of it in action. Here are four examples of crowdsourcing in action improving everything from financial services to government communications. The post What Are Some Examples of Crowdsourcing Innovation?
Speaker: Paul Sloane, Director, Destination Innovation
Paul Sloane is a well-known author and speaker on open innovation. In this session, Paul takes us through examples of successful open innovation programs to explore the breadth of what open innovation can be for organizations and the value it can bring. This was a great session you don’t want to miss.
IdeaScale
AUGUST 19, 2020
Crowdsourcing offers a fantastic avenue into a wealth of information that might not otherwise be accessible. The post 6 Key Points To Understand About A Crowdsourcing Platform appeared first on IdeaScale. Best Practice CrowdSourcing Platform innovation community
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OCTOBER 20, 2021
Many have also adopted a “proudly found elsewhere” solution approach, which uses crowdsourcing to ask the entire workforce or even beyond the walls of the organization for solutions to existing problems.
IdeaScale
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. The process was designed to bring in and launch as many ideas as possible, built on the IdeaScale platform.
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. To start, let’s understand and differentiate crowdsourcing from outsourcing. Crowdsourcing vs. Outsourcing. The word “crowdsourcing” was first used in 2006 and in the context of Flickr.
InnovationManagement
MAY 18, 2021
Many enterprise organizations use crowdsourcing to find ideas in their blind spots - but how do you launch your first crowdsourcing challenge, and what sorts of questions do you ask?
IdeaScale
MARCH 24, 2020
We were heartened, also, to see that many of our customers and partners are taking this moment to look to their network for solutions and novel responses by launching COVID-19 crowdsourcing campaigns. What topics should we crowdsource that may help reduce the burden of your current work environment? The post Example COVID-19 Crowdsourcing Campaigns appeared first on IdeaScale. We are living in unprecedented times.
IdeaScale
APRIL 4, 2019
Crowdsourcing is becoming increasingly popular in today’s business world. One of the main reasons why crowdsourcing is increasing in popularity throughout the business world is due to the positive influence that it has on innovation performance. Although there are pros and cons to using crowdsourcing for businesses, I would argue that the pros far outweigh the cons. Crowdsourcing allows you to hear many different opinions and ideas.
InnovationManagement
JUNE 24, 2021
As the director of the IdeaScale Crowd community, I recently had the opportunity to share some insights and best practices for innovators who are new to crowdsourcing, and may not have conducted their first campaign yet.
IdeaScale
MARCH 10, 2021
There’s no better demonstration of the power of crowdsourcing than proof of it in action. Here are four examples of crowdsourcing in action improving everything from financial services to government communications. The solution used crowdsourcing in two unique ways.
InnovationManagement
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Crowdsourcing ideas has a number of different virtues: from improving the likelihood that you’ll source disruptive ideas to lowering the overall program costs of running an innovation program… but there are some other cultural benefits to a crowdsourced innovation program.
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. While focus groups have been around for years, crowdsourcing only became possible after the proliferation of the internet. However, crowdsourcing hasn’t replaced focus groups the way streaming music made your CD collection irrelevant. IdeaScale for Crowdsourcing.
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. Want to see how crowdsourcing can help your organization?
HYPE Innovation
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
The innovation management industry is highly fragmented today, which makes it confusing to understand which methods apply to which scenarios, and what the difference is between those doing crowdsourcing, and those doing enterprise programs designed to facilitate business transformation. Crowdsourcing Frameworks
Yet2
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Should you opt for tech scouting or crowdsourcing? Tim Bernstein , CEO of yet2 and Christian Cotichini , CEO of HeroX tackle this topic in HeroX’s recent webinar, Crowdsourcing vs TechScouting: Which One is Better? Case studies of both tech scouting and crowdsourcing.
IdeaScale
APRIL 10, 2019
We encourage you to download the IdeaScale 2019 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report for a deeper dive into the topic of innovation management that gets results. The post Examining the State of Crowdsourced Innovation in 2019 appeared first on IdeaScale. Best Practice crowdsourcing InnovationThe average number of years a company spends on the Fortune 500 list is dropping. World-class corporations spend less time at the top than they once did.
IdeaScale
JANUARY 12, 2021
The post The First Three Things You Learn About Crowdsourced Innovation Management appeared first on IdeaScale. I joined IdeaScale in October of 2020, just before the “second wave” of COVID infections hit the US and an election unlike any other was about to take place.
InnovationManagement
MAY 11, 2020
IdeaScale has recently acquired Betterific, a crowdsourcing platform that engages a community of 18,000+ creative problem solvers, design thinkers, and ideators to help you come up with your next big idea. Collaborative Innovation Open Innovation Crowdsourcing Ideation
IdeaScale
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Learn innovation and crowdsourcing strategy from NASA. Do you want to know the secrets for success through internal crowdsourcing and innovation storytelling? NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation — a crowdsourcing platform — unveiled their best practices for approaches to problem-solving on a recent webinar in a move to share what they’ve learned to help others. NASA said this is unarguably the most important part of an internal crowdsourcing program.
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. By definition, using crowdsourcing to generate ideas or receiving feedback for existing ideas speeds up the creation process. Crowdsourcing naturally increases the diversity of the ideas your firm can work with.
InnovationManagement
DECEMBER 16, 2019
There are four ways to crowdsource answers to your innovation challenges: garden variety crowdsourcing, distant expert sourcing, expert targeting, and force multiplying. The post The Four Forms of Crowdsourcing appeared first on Innovation Management.
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. For example, their lunar instruments crowdsourcing campaign focused on NASA’s desire to better understand the Moon.
Braineet
JULY 23, 2019
No matter what business you're in, you can use crowdsourcing to find great new ideas and solve tough problems. Crowdsourcing
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. You need a clear, detailed strategy before you start any crowdsourcing campaign. Choosing Crowdsourcing Instead Of Open Innovation.
IdeaScale
DECEMBER 12, 2017
This is the whole idea of crowdsourcing: to gather and synthesize the input of many minds! It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. The post Who Makes the Decisions in Crowdsourcing? Best Practice Voice of IdeaScale crowdsourcing decisions governance stakeholdersYou will likely engage your experts and authorities at the earliest stages or your program through discussion.
IdeaScale
MARCH 6, 2018
Crowdsourcing has been judged to be one of the most impactful, but least used digital hacks by organizations by Gartner. So here are some suggestions that you can use in your IdeaScale community to avoid voting bias in crowdsourcing. The post How to Avoid Voting Bias in Crowdsourcing appeared first on IdeaScale. Best Practice IdeaScale bias crowdsourcing funding validation voting
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. Crowdsourcing allows you to include more perspectives and ideas, to everyone’s benefit. Especially with internal crowdsourcing, you can deal with an issue that can crop up; namely, that what seems like a good idea for a small team might be a problem for the wider company.
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. What are the benefits of crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing allows knowledge transfer to be real time and validated at scale.
IdeaScale
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
The post A Look at the 2020 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report appeared first on IdeaScale. Disruption is a necessary component of innovation. The novel coronavirus has massively disrupted all industries, resulting in brand new questions and conversations.
Destination Innovation
JULY 13, 2016
How are firms using crowdsourcing? 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. This is the classic way to use crowdsourcing to improve a product or service. Similar to data collection, this involves crowdsourcing onerous tasks that would take your employees too many hours to count.
IdeaScale
JANUARY 17, 2019
Crowdsourcing can be a powerful tool for helping non-profits generate innovative ideas in the long term. Non-profit initiatives need to be transparent, and crowdsourcing is, by its very nature, crystal clear. The proper crowdsourcing platform allows non-profit contributors to generate ideas and other donors and volunteers to vote on them and refine them with comments and additional ideas. Donors, volunteers, and the communities you serve can all help with crowdsourcing.
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. Crowdsourcing is when you open it up to the public, usually starting with your customer base, to get ideas or to perform tasks. If you’re consumer-facing, and one of the key stakeholders is your consumers, then crowdsourcing is in the mix.
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