IdeaScale

APRIL 21, 2021

Our infographic explores when you should collect data with surveys versus developing ideas with crowdsourcing. Surveys sample from a specific group: The only people who take a survey are generally those you ask to take it, and often only the most engaged out of that particular group. Using Surveys With Crowdsourcing.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 17, 2019

Non-profit engagement is about more than volunteering. Crowdsourcing can be a powerful tool for helping non-profits generate innovative ideas in the long term. Non-profit initiatives need to be transparent, and crowdsourcing is, by its very nature, crystal clear. Stronger Employee Engagement. Better Transparency.

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IdeaScale

MAY 18, 2021

In 2021, we expect to see faster turnaround times on ideas, even faster growth in departments focused directly on innovation, more engagement from leaders, and a shift to transformational and adjacent change in innovation strategy. There’s much more to learn from our white paper on 2021. 2020 Was The Year of Necessity.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2018

As an innovation strategist at IdeaScale, I focus on helping our clients think creatively about how best to engage their crowd and leverage the wisdom of the crowd to source ideas for new products and services and improve processes. Want to learn more? The goal is to collect ideas and surface insights to explore new opportunities.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 22, 2017

After 69 years of growth, Dick’s is a great company ripe for crowdsourcing and they launched their first company-wide ideation platform last year. But how do we know that a company like Dick’s is a good fit for crowdsourcing? Well, here are a few qualities that make a company more likely to succeed in a crowdsourcing effort.

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IdeaScale

MAY 4, 2021

Crowdsourcing allows organizations to find and work with self-selected volunteers to accomplish tasks, gather information, or gain new ideas. Critics often assume that employed professionals don’t have time to participate in crowdsourcing projects. However, project managers might wonder exactly who these “crowd workers” are.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 16, 2022

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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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Not every innovation program has developed the communications skill set necessary to engage a global workforce or customer base in sharing ideas, developing ideas, and collaborating. And if you’re not investing in communications, then you’re not maximizing the value of your crowdsourced innovation community.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 5, 2016

Crowdsourcing does have a real potential in my mind but does seem to have some formidable issues to work through, to be well understood and managed. Continuing with my exploring crowdsourcing. Let’s start here by raising some of the biggest concerns you might have over crowdsourcing? this source: [link]. Part one is here.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 15, 2017

Crowdsourcing can add up in surprising ways. Can finance benefit from crowdsourcing? While open innovation and crowdsourcing are incredibly popular in other industries, the financial industry is necessarily more conservative about the technology it uses and the consumers it listens to. Crowdsourcing and finance often make sense.

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InnovationManagement

MAY 11, 2020

IdeaScale has recently acquired Betterific, a crowdsourcing platform that engages a community of 18,000+ creative problem solvers, design thinkers, and ideators to help you come up with your next big idea. Learn more about how you can tap into this innovative community.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. Crowdsourcing does have both the potential to point towards disrupting possibilities, extends the concept of open innovation into a wider source of participation from a diverse community not possible to reach by other means as effectively.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Here are some lessons to learn from how startups innovate quickly and turn into established companies. You might consider overall time spent on the project, time from first meeting to product launch, customer feedback, or employee engagement. To learn more about the innovation process, join our newsletter today.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Crowdsourcing is just one facet of innovation strategy. So, if crowdsourcing doesn’t work for your specific issue, here’s how to bolster innovation without it. Learn how your product is actually used, not just how you intended it to be used when pursuing new ideas. For some, it may not be the most workable.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 5, 2016

Crowdsourcing does have a real potential in my mind but does seem to have some formidable issues to work through, to be well understood and managed. Continuing with my exploring crowdsourcing. Let’s start here by raising some of the biggest concerns you might have over crowdsourcing? this source: [link]. Part one is here.

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Crowdsourcing Engagement Resources Management 100

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. Crowdsourcing does have both the potential to point towards disrupting possibilities, extends the concept of open innovation into a wider source of participation from a diverse community not possible to reach by other means as effectively.

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Crowdsourcing Engagement Collaboration Resources 100

IdeaScale

JANUARY 1, 2020

Learn how to establish a foundation as a new department from the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Mousetrap team. For the past eight years, NASA has been running an internal crowdsourcing program with great success. This webinar highlights that success and delves into best practices for internal crowdsourcing from the minds at NASA.

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Imaginatik

MAY 12, 2015

We want to engage employees in innovation. Because people readily understand suggestions, incremental ideas and crowdsourcing, this tends to be the main focus when starting up innovation. We believe there’s another way – a better way – and it starts by ensuring your focus is on Driving Innovation through employee engagement.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 22, 2017

After 69 years of growth, Dick’s is a great company ripe for crowdsourcing and they launched their first company-wide ideation platform last year. But how do we know that a company like Dick’s is a good fit for crowdsourcing? Well, here are a few qualities that make a company more likely to succeed in a crowdsourcing effort.

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Crowdsourcing Company Case Study Development Team Review 100

IdeaScale

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Overview: In 2017, Davidson College redesigned its innovation program for more transparency, engagement, and democracy. The same process conceived and implemented a faculty boot camp on digital learning that, while optional, saw 96% of faculty attend and complete. To learn more, request a demo.

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Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We recently caught up with Juan Fernando Correa, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. That’s why I’ve been engaging with the Qmarkets platform, to enable anyone at the company to bring forward new and interesting ideas for innovation in mining.

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This approach supports a culture of continuous learning, adaptation, and external collaboration, positioning the organization for sustained success in an ever-evolving business landscape that recognizes and learns how to collaborate and co-create, moving towards recognizing the value of Business Ecosystems.

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InnovationManagement

JULY 6, 2020

Every year, one question tops all the others that our customers might bring to us: how do I increase engagement in my innovation community? The post 7 Incentives to Increase Participation in a Crowdsourced Innovation Program appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 13, 2018

Crowdsourced innovation communities only succeed when they bring in new voices and encourage them to share ideas. We asked our Innovation Strategists at IdeaScale to share some community engagement tips: “Post a video of a key high-level sponsor showing support for the campaigns that you’re running. ” -Matt Paulson. Kerry Seed.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 28, 2021

The initiative offered more than 500 free activities and over 200 learning labs for digital enthusiasts, newcomers, industry experts, and businesses, with renowned speakers including Vint Serf – one of the recognized ‘fathers of the internet’.

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Planview

JUNE 19, 2019

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. Crowdsourcing Innovation Effectively. Innovation drives companies into the future.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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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Crowdsourcing Innovation Idea Management Project 52

IdeaScale

APRIL 28, 2020

The IdeaScale software is primarily used to crowdsource ideas. Company leaders previously learned about what customers wanted through traditional means such as surveys and focus groups. The CEO suggested crowdsourcing as a way to promote employee engagement. Success through Customer Involvem ent.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

This type of purpose can help employees feel engaged, stay longer, work more effectively, and more. One of the benefits of a crowdsourced innovation program, however, is that you can find additional resources to implement ideas outside of your organization (or in other unlikely places).

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 9, 2019

Crowdsourcing reaches the citizens unable to make meetings. Governments are increasingly turning to crowdsourcing and open innovation to encourage citizens across the spectrum to weigh in with ideas, opinions, and perspectives. Voting isn’t the only way to engage with democracy. The City of Huntsville.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 22, 2017

In this case, the City of Calgary was a leader in generating engagement with their innovation program. This is perhaps the most important engagement tactic you can use: responsiveness. To learn more about the City of Calgary and their myCityInnovation program, download their case study. . But how did they do it?

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’d recommend creating channels for collaboration – crowdsourcing via the web – at all junctures in the work management lifecycle. Hmmm, crowdsourcing. “Oh, Crowdsourcing can take place at all points of the innovation cycle. These contributors enjoy participating in crowdsourcing at this stage because it is easy.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This is our fifth annual award series and we honor winners in three categories: best innovation engagement strategy, best innovation process, and best innovation. Well, every year we ask our customers what it is that they would most like to learn about in order to support their programs. Engagement. Implementation.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 5, 2021

First, make sure to properly engage your employees at every step of the way. Remember, only around 41% of employees were actively engaged during 2020. To keep staff engaged going forward, you’ll need to make sure you’re constantly communicating with your teams, offering recognition, and responding to their needs.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The Mayors traveled to the United States from Brazil to learn about innovations in community policing. I was most surprised by the high level of engagement, thoughtful questions, and the genuine desire from the Mayors to make their public spaces safer. This blog post is part of a series authored by IdeaScale employees.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Five years ago, CDER launched a crowdsourcing program to make better use of its 4,500 employees, and the results have been extremely promising. Ascione and Taylor emphasized that what works best in the context of CDER is time-limited crowdsourcing challenges as opposed to open-ended initiatives. Importance of Time-Limited Challenges.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 9, 2016

The use of crowdsourcing : the goal for me, is to engage and move the crowd towards a new direction, by encouraging out individual thinking and discovery, searching for combining these contributions; ones that lead to novel, new answers that move a challenge forward into a solution, one that has improved value over the existing.

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