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What You Need to Know About Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

Every spring at IdeaScale, we start receiving requests from undergraduate and graduate students around the globe who are researching crowdsourcing and its potential application in the business world. But we thought we’d document some of the most common questions below to tell you what you need to know about crowdsourcing.

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Idea Crowdsourcing at MARTA: Encouraging Innovation in the Public Sector

Qmarkets

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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The building blocks of open innovation lead towards Business Ecosystems.

Paul Hobcraft

What are the building blocks of open innovation strategies building on Business Ecosystem thinking and design: The Building Blocks Through Open Innovation Strategies Collaborative Ideation Beyond Ecosystem Boundaries: Description: Extend the boundaries of collaborative ideation beyond your existing Ecosystems.

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The Secrets to Effective, Efficient Ideation

Innovation Excellence

We also want ideas with impact, that are rapidly actionable and ideally that utilize mostly existing resources and relationships. Most ideation is done in. We want these ideas without a huge effort, without a huge risk and without a huge investment.

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Are You Working on the Right Things? The Power of Collaborative Channels

Planview

One of the most important decisions people in organizations make on a daily basis at all levels is choosing how to spend resources. Intelligent use of resources manifests in improved internal functions, delightful customer experiences, productive partnerships, winning competitive strategies, and other areas. Hmmm, crowdsourcing. “Oh,

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Crowdsourcing Ways to Save Students Money

IdeaScale

Knowing that they had a wealth of knowledge within their campus network, the steering committee and the working group launched a crowdsourcing campaign to their students asking for ways to reduce costs that would help the President meet his commitment. The post Crowdsourcing Ways to Save Students Money appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Innovation Department Best Practices: A Talk with Peter Berger

IdeaScale

Ideation: “What’s Our Unfair Advantage?”. The ideation process will clearly be different depending on the type of parent organization. Ideation in the health and beauty industry will be different from ideation in the shipbuilding industry. Push the boundaries, but don’t forget where your competitive advantages are.

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