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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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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. We are moving innovation along but not at a pace or design that reflects the need to connect “it ” into one comprehensive process.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Updated Model of Design Thinking. Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Crowdsourcing (Whitla). Crowdsourcing Process (Geiger). Design Competitions. Stage-Gate Model in Crowdsourcing (Saldanha). Value Proposition Design (Osterwalder). End-to-End Innovation Process (Furr).

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Relating to the New Innovation Era

Paul Hobcraft

Even though we have so many new initiatives going on in the larger organizations to keep the troops happy and hopefully engaged they are not making the level of difference that innovation is expected to achieve. Execution and Value Delivery needs to drive the whole innovation process. Exploring and Aligning.

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Reflecting on our innovation practices

Paul Hobcraft

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Culture of Innovation: Premera Blue Cross Engages Employees to Drive Innovation

Planview

Premera tasked Nielsen and his innovation team to come up with new ideas that put their customers at the center of Premera’s universe. This meant allowing everybody within the company to participate in an innovation process. Recipes were developed over time covering areas like design-thinking frameworks, pilots and market scans.

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

Imaginatik

However, you don’t need to have full-time innovation scouts to get going. For starters, you can crowdsource clues from elsewhere in your own organization. Web-based collaboration tools can capture those insights from the field, and funnel them efficiently back to Innovation and/ or R&D teams.

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