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Crowdsourcing Trends Shaping the Future of Innovation

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Most businesses understand the importance of crowdsourcing, and as a result, are implementing it into their business plans. Decentralization.

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Webinar: Plan Your Organization’s Crowdsourcing Initiative

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is an effective way to kick off innovation efforts. Crowdsourcing initiatives increase innovation performance within an organization. Research shows 86% of companies who take part in crowdsourcing activities consider engagement an important part of company success. Reasons why IdeaScale asks those questions.

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Tools to Predict Your Company’s Future: Scenario Planning and Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

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. What political, economic, social or technical trends will impact the way we do business?

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Should Your Research Include Surveys or a Crowdsourcing Component? Check Out Our Infographic!

IdeaScale

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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Emerging Trends Impacting the Financial Sector in 2019

IdeaScale

What trends in innovation will affect finance in 2019? Crowdsourcing And Open Innovation. As a result, crowdsourcing ideas and approaches faced slow going in this sector as institutions have worked out the boundaries between what customers can weigh in on and what needs to be tucked away in the vault. Transparency.

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Why are innovation ecosystems important?

Paul Hobcraft

Crowdsourced Innovation Challenges: Description: Design and launch innovation challenges that involve a broader network, inviting external contributors to solve specific business problems or contribute novel ideas. Co-Creation with Customers and End-Users: Description: Engage customers and end-users directly in the co-creation process.

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Evaluating Crowdsourcing – offering a bright future?

Paul Hobcraft

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.