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Five Crowdsourced Ideas that Came From Unlikely Places

IdeaScale

Overview: The value of crowdsourcing is that you can find ideas in the most unusual of places. These five, in particular, might surprise you and offer guidance for your crowdsourcing strategy. The team won $20,000 to refine the design and ship it to an overjoyed Sirvan, with the rest going to cerebral palsy research.

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Designing at an Innovation Management Company

IdeaScale

When I joined IdeaScale in late spring of this year, I set out to discover how I could help our customers create and maintain an innovative culture at their company through our crowdsourcing tools. Here’s what I’ve learned about designing at an innovation management company so far.

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Applying Collaborative Innovation to Design Thinking

Innovation Architecture

Of late, many have embraced the practice of collaborative innovation, with its application of social media to sourcing crowds and ideas, and design thinking, with its structured approach to vetting hypotheses about new business opportunities. I reference Designing for Growth by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie to depict design thinking.

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Calculating the ROI of an Idea: Ideas That Saved Time

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing and open innovation initiatives are vital by bringing vast stakeholders together to share ideas on complex problems and opportunities. This can include capital expenditures, one time project expenditures and foreseen operating costs. Design your Open Innovation Campaign to Collect Financial Data .

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Top 10 Posts from the 100%Open Blog.

100%Open

Unleashing Customer Innovation with LEGO Ideas – A summary blog post about the recent history of open innovation at LEGO on the launch of the LEGO Ideas platform that we played a small role in shaping as one of our first big projects, which remains one of our most popular posts ever even years later.

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

Imaginatik

Many innovation programs, and some R&D teams, benefit from full-time staff who work as designated innovation scouts. For starters, you can crowdsource clues from elsewhere in your own organization. At first glance, creative facilitation and narrative building exercises may appear silly or frivolous. Get the facts!

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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.