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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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6 Steps to Getting Executive Buy-In for a Crowdsourced Innovation Program

Planview

Engaging the “crowd” at scale in your innovation initiative has been proven to fundamentally transform companies. In fact, Gartner recently named crowdsourcing as the most effective independent discipline that CIOs can adopt to drive digital transformation. The advantages of crowdsourced innovation can’t be ignored.

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Webinar: How The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Recognizes Emerging Innovators

IdeaScale

In that context, the NRC requires powerful innovation to meet its brief. The NRC’s innovation program started with a voluntary program created by staff called the Idea Greenhouse. Ideas can be solicited through crowdsourcing, shared spontaneously, or documented and discussed as they’re applied in the field.

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Innovation Leaders: If You Show Impact, ROI Will Come

Planview

Innovation leaders: you don’t have to prove return on investment (ROI) right away, but you do have to show some impact. The reality is, when it comes to a new innovation program, you don’t actually have to prove ROI to the exact formula (inputs-outputs) especially early in the program’s existence.

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Challenge Deployment Toolkit: A Strategic Approach to Scaling Innovation Program Engagement

Planview

One popular New Year’s Resolution is getting fit – so here at Spigit, we wanted to share with you a series about how to get “Innovation Fit” in 2018 to ensure your innovation program is set up for success. All great things to target in your innovation program as well. Scale is good.

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IM Award Lessons: Improving Employee Experience Through Innovation

IdeaScale

Then they return (the second step) to the IdeaScale system and document how the implementation went and what the outcomes and benefits were from the idea. IS : What is the most important piece of advice that you can give to someone who’s launching a crowdsourcing community? Team members are usually very excited to receive these.

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3 Takeaways from Spigit’s Innovation Forum

Planview

An exclusive group of innovation leaders convened for an evening of sharing best practices and in-depth discussions about innovation programs. Here are three innovation takeaways that grabbed our attention. Build an innovation program with employees to solve problems at scale.