IdeaScale

JULY 19, 2017

And then the profile for the embedded innovation group within an organization: A majority of IdeaScale customers have some level of program maturity (between 1-3 years old). Most IdeaScale customers are using their innovation program to collaborate with their employees. The post What Does an Innovator Look Like?

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IdeaScale

MAY 22, 2018

Last month, leaders in public sector innovation gathered to discuss ways of crowdsourcing new solutions to longstanding problems at IdeaScale’s Open Nation DC. When it comes to crowdsourcing, you have to know what it is that gets people into an ideation community and inspires them. Beware Vanity Metrics. What are vanity metrics?

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IdeaScale

MARCH 7, 2017

Creating a repeatable innovation portfolio helps you plan more efficiently, scale resources, and gain insight for the growth of your innovation program. There are five key elements of a repeatable innovation portfolio: Opportunity Identification and Campaign Creation. Idea Collection and Inspiration. Proposal Generation.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 31, 2018

The barriers to get started on a crowdsourced innovation program are actually quite low. But you’ll learn a lot just by starting a program. Innovation is an agile process. You’ll learn a lot along the way. Continue to Improve. Don’t be afraid to change, update, and improve.

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Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

As the leader of an innovation program, your role is about generating business value from the spark of an idea. But how can you tell which innovation ideas from your latest brainstorming session will deliver results? With crowdsourcing, you might have collected hundreds of ideas in only a matter of weeks.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2018

This year, QED won the Innovation Management award for best innovation realized. The reason that they won this award is, because they were able to collaborate with other crowdsourcing platform TopCoder to test and prototype promising solutions right away – a great use of crowd resources.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We’re constantly looking for ways to improve, and the Innovation Program provides leadership for that constant renewal. Use your challenges to grow participation, and always keep your radar on for some problem in your organization that could benefit from crowdsourcing.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 6, 2021

Crowdsourcing can influence innovation. According to a 2017 survey, 86% of companies who incorporate crowdsourcing in the workplace cite employee engagement as a top priority. Data gathered from IdeaScale’s innovation communities provides benchmarks and insights for innovators creating new crowdsourced innovation programs.

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IdeaScale

JULY 5, 2017

Last year Gartner published an article entitled “ The 5 Most Effective, Least Used Digital Innovation Hacks ” which listed crowdsourcing, differentiated funding, differentiated metrics, startup innovation, and formal innovation management. So why aren’t you crowdsourcing already? Better Ideas. Lower Costs.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

I often see first-time innovators bit by the crowdsourcing bug, and they come to us to scratch that itch. “I I heard about this crowdsourcing thing. It’s determining what you’ll do with those ideas and how they’ll change your organization for the better that will help build a truly sustainable innovation program.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Employees, donors, and recipients of a nonprofit’s services see the true and profound value of helping a nonprofit succeed in its mission, which can positively impact innovation in three ways: Motivating participants to share their ideas. Those are just a few advantages that nonprofit innovators might have.

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