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Five Crowdsourced Ideas that Came From Unlikely Places

IdeaScale

Overview: The value of crowdsourcing is that you can find ideas in the most unusual of places. These five, in particular, might surprise you and offer guidance for your crowdsourcing strategy. It was so popular that when it went to market a few months later, it sold millions of units and was awarded project of the year.

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Why Aren’t You Crowdsourcing?

IdeaScale

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. Here are some of the most commonly cited benefits of crowdsourced innovation management.

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What Are Some Examples of Crowdsourcing Innovation?

IdeaScale

There’s no better demonstration of the power of crowdsourcing than proof of it in action. Here are four examples of crowdsourcing in action improving everything from financial services to government communications. So the bank turned to its internal crowdsourcing group , UpSquad, for ideas.

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OUTSIDE-IN [CASE STUDY]

Flying Fish Lab

This was a local market centric challenge, so our Outside-in approach looked at the issue from different perspectives: From Outside the geography : what could we learn from what had already been done further afield? What had worked and what had not worked in other markets.

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Choosing Your AI Use Case: A Prioritization Framework

Planview

Crowdsource ideas. Crowdsourcing. You can undertake an extensive, expensive market research exercise for AI use cases that takes eight to 10 weeks. Or you can start building with the user insights you already have to get a capability to market. How to Identify AI Use Cases 1. The best way to get them?

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – Doing the Impossible with Nothing?

BrainZooming

A New Add to Our Extreme Creativity Strategic Thinking Exercises. While I would guarantee that beginning with prayer is the BEST place to start, a new extreme creativity question is finding its way into future strategic thinking exercises: “Where would you start if you had to do the impossible with nothing?”

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The United Nations of Innovation

IdeaScale

Research has shown that although it’s hard to quantify, companies that exercise two-dimensional diversity tend to innovate and perform better than companies that lack 2-D diversity. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.