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How Design Thinking Complements Crowdsourced Innovation

IdeaScale

In this post, I’d like to talk about how design thinking complements crowdsourced innovation. Design thinking is a well-known, highly-effective and enjoyable method that encourages people to open their minds and take a different approach to problem solving. The two methods are a natural fit.

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Using Design Thinking to Ready Your Company for the Green Economy

IdeaScale

Why not start by using design thinking to start solving those problems? For those of you familiar with design thinking, you might already know the process associated with growing meaningful ideas and solutions. Ideation: With a properly defined problem and a ton of knowledge resources, you can start ideating.

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Have organizations become more collaborative over 25 years? What has enabled that?

Paul Hobcraft

(First post here ) So this post, in a series of three, looks at the answers given by Google’s Gemini on how collaboration and ideation evolved the organization’s ability to adapt and what helped. Ideation From closed to open: The way ideas are generated is changing. I asked Google Gemini five questions.

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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

I am working through what I think this should become in design and application, involving providing the key innovation building blocks as components of the innovation stack, using the innovation stack to guide platform development and the platform to support this innovation stack.

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How a (crowdsourced) idea becomes a product

Betterific

Sterilite launches crowdsourced product. Sterilite , the industry leading manufacturer of plastic storage containers, launched their first ever crowdsourced product idea to the marketplace. . For the crowdsourcing community this is a huge breakthrough. Why crowdsource? It’s more of a marketing play. .

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The Secrets to Effective, Efficient Ideation

Innovation Excellence

Most ideation is done in. We want these ideas without a huge effort, without a huge risk and without a huge investment. We also want ideas with impact, that are rapidly actionable and ideally that utilize mostly existing resources and relationships.