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Organize innovation to fit your strategy & culture.

Leapfrogging

That’s because they try to apply processes and structures that don’t fit their business strategies and cultures. They force crowdsourcing into their top-down decision-making cultures. They invest in disruptive technologies but ask existing business units to cannibalize their current products and services using them.

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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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Can Crowdsourcing Support Your Operational Excellence Strategy?

Qmarkets

This audience is already delivering results across a huge range of use cases, from disruptive innovation to new product development, so why is it currently being overlooked by leaders looking to augment their operational excellence strategy? What would be your top three key points to consider when developing an innovation strategy?

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The building blocks of open innovation lead towards Business Ecosystems.

Paul Hobcraft

By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries. So why do open innovation strategies have real potential to take innovation into business ecosystems ?

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Top Strategies to Prioritize Features for Innovation Teams

IdeaScale

In this blog, we will recommend strategies for choosing the best features for your innovation roadmap along with the do’s and don’ts of feature prioritization. . In this strategy, feature prioritization is done by understanding which problems are not being solved at present. Customer Pain Points. Customer Journey.

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Using Crowdsourced Innovation in the Real World

Planview

Having a well-defined innovation strategy is more important than ever. One way to do that is through crowdsourced innovation. The good news is that you can prevent this slump from happening by looking for ideas beyond the boardroom, crowdsourcing employees, partners, and customers for innovative ideas and solutions.

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In Uncertain Times, Embrace Imperfectionism

Harvard Business Review

Change is accelerating, with uncertainty and threat of disruption in every industry segment. The pace of change and rise of global winner-take-all competition means that conventional product-market-structure approaches to strategy, as well as core competencies thinking, are difficult to implement in practice and may yield misleading answers.