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Who Exactly are the Crowd Workers?

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing allows organizations to find and work with self-selected volunteers to accomplish tasks, gather information, or gain new ideas. However, project managers might wonder exactly who these “crowd workers” are. Critics often assume that employed professionals don’t have time to participate in crowdsourcing projects.

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What Are Some Examples of Crowdsourcing Innovation?

IdeaScale

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. So the bank turned to its internal crowdsourcing group , UpSquad, for ideas.

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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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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. I am a Projects Analyst at Hochschild, but I trained as a mechanical engineer. Please could you start by telling us a bit about yourself and Hochschild Mining as a whole?

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Crowdsourcing Case Study: Polaris Industries

Planview

Polaris Industries’ crowdsourcing case study is inspiring people both internally and externally—and their story is still relevant today. It was always obvious to leaders at Polaris that there were untapped opportunities to crowdsource groundbreaking ideas from employees across the company. Transparent crowdsourcing.

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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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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. I am a Projects Analyst at Hochschild, but I trained as a mechanical engineer. Please could you start by telling us a bit about yourself and Hochschild Mining as a whole?