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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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Matching Crowdsourcing to Specific Stages of Business Model Innovation

Qmarkets

I like to argue (for example, here ) that one of the major reasons crowdsourcing has not yet become a mainstream innovation tool is a paralyzing uncertainty over the question which technical or business problem can be successfully solved by using this approach. Internal Crowdsourcing (IC).

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Matching Crowdsourcing to Specific Stages of Business Model Innovation

Qmarkets

I like to argue (for example, here ) that one of the major reasons crowdsourcing has not yet become a mainstream innovation tool is a paralyzing uncertainty over the question which technical or business problem can be successfully solved by using this approach. Internal Crowdsourcing (IC).

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How Government Innovation Promises to Help Communities Fight Wildfires

IdeaScale

Firefighting agencies are responding with computer modeling, advanced topographic mapping, new fire management techniques, sensors, mobile monitors, infrastructure upgrades, and new government innovation programs. The Scale Of The Problem. Wildfire numbers, size, and severity have all risen in the last twenty years. Wildfire Sensors.

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IM Award Lessons: Rapidly Iterating on Promising Ideas

IdeaScale

This year, QED won the Innovation Management award for best innovation realized. 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.

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Top 10 Takeaways from Spigit’s Ignite 2018 Conference

Planview

Crowdsourced innovation programs are maturing. They’re now putting more focus on the impact their programs are having on their company’s bottom line. They’re now putting more focus on the impact their programs are having on their company’s bottom line. Want a successful innovation program?

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2023 Rewind: Innovations and Evolutions in the Qmarkets Product Copy

Qmarkets

Innovators Community’ Page With any enterprise innovation program, you will often have a very wide audience of users that you need to engage and leverage if you want to be successful.The only way you can do this is if you have a birds-eye view of your users, where you can access and filter by relevant criteria.