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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. million project taking several years was instead quickly approved and in the sky in months on a much lower budget. The Bucket Mister.

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Mammoth Crowdsourcing Exercise to Compile Viking Database

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Research into Viking culture has been given a huge boost thanks to the World-Tree Project, a new crowdsourcing initiative that is attempting to compile the world’s largest online Viking database. University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland is behind the project , which is enlisting the public’s help from all over the world.

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Choosing Your AI Use Case: A Prioritization Framework

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Crowdsource ideas. Crowdsourcing. You can undertake an extensive, expensive market research exercise for AI use cases that takes eight to 10 weeks. How to Identify AI Use Cases 1. To accelerate your decision-making process, start with a full basket of ideas. The best way to get them?

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – Doing the Impossible with Nothing?

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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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Designing at an Innovation Management Company

IdeaScale

When I joined IdeaScale in late spring of this year, I set out to discover how I could help our customers create and maintain an innovative culture at their company through our crowdsourcing tools. In lieu of having a larger design team, my role is to empower other departments to give feedback and criticism on projects I’m working on.

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Managing Expectations in Innovation Management: Part II

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing can uncover ideas, questions, issues, and approaches you might not have thought of. Some ideas may be ready for immediate implementation within your existing programmatic goals, projects, and capabilities. The submitter would get a prize at the workshop, and the idea gets used in the event exercise.

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Calculating the ROI of an Idea: Ideas That Saved Time

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing and open innovation initiatives are vital by bringing vast stakeholders together to share ideas on complex problems and opportunities. This can include capital expenditures, one time project expenditures and foreseen operating costs. Estimated Benefit – Estimated Cost of Project. __. Estimated Costs of Project.