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What You Need to Know About Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

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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Innovation Department Best Practices: A Talk with Peter Berger

IdeaScale

Ideation: “What’s Our Unfair Advantage?”. The ideation process will clearly be different depending on the type of parent organization. Ideation in the health and beauty industry will be different from ideation in the shipbuilding industry. Push the boundaries, but don’t forget where your competitive advantages are.

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Internal Crowdsourcing vs. External Crowdsourcing: How to Determine the Best Solution

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Recently I had a chance to read a terrific article in the most recent issue of the MIT/Sloan Management review about internal crowdsourcing. Co-authored by Lale Kesebi at Spigit customer Li & Fung (watch her awesome presentation at Ignite here to get inspired ), I recommend it to anyone considering doing ideation with an internal crowd.

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Internal vs. External Crowdsourcing: How to Determine the Best Solution

Planview

internal crowdsourcing. Co-authored by Lale Kesebi at Spigit customer Li & Fung (watch her awesome presentation at Ignite here to get inspired ), I recommend it to anyone considering doing ideation with an internal crowd. What is an ideation challenge or community? Product roadmap feedback, validation, and some ideation.

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16 Best Free Online Brainstorming Tools in 2022

IdeaScale

Start with this excellent video by Sprouts, an online organization dedicated to learning, science, and ideation. Lucidchart is a brainstorming web app that offers practical solutions to help streamline ideation processes by letting users collaborate in real-time. Lucidchart.

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IM Award Lessons: Rapidly Iterating on Promising Ideas

IdeaScale

The reason that they won this award is, because they were able to collaborate with other crowdsourcing platform TopCoder to test and prototype promising solutions right away – a great use of crowd resources. QED : Make sure to think out your process past Ideation. QED : Winning this award is definitely up there!

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s Ignite 2018 Conference

Planview

Crowdsourced innovation programs are maturing. Companies are moving beyond optimizing for ideation. Frequent communication is an absolute must for successful crowdsourced innovation programs. When it comes to your innovation program, creating a clear process from ideation (e.g. Ideas are great, but impact matters.