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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

By incorporating Open Innovation Strategies as the next building block, businesses can create a dynamic and expansive innovation ecosystem beyond internal and partnership and certain collaborative boundaries. So why do open innovation strategies have real potential to take innovation into business ecosystems ?

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

Planview

Intelligent use of resources manifests in improved internal functions, delightful customer experiences, productive partnerships, winning competitive strategies, and other areas. We’d recommend creating channels for collaboration – crowdsourcing via the web – at all junctures in the work management lifecycle. Hmmm, crowdsourcing. “Oh,

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The Secrets to Effective, Efficient Ideation

Innovation Excellence

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

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How to Develop Your Idea to Become the Next Big Thing Using Kanban System?

IdeaScale

The Kanban system is a visualization strategy that helps you manage innovative development projects. Through this strategy, you can also develop permanent solutions for fixing some of your organization’s most pressing problems. But how did the Kanban system evolve into the progressive visualization strategy that it is today?

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

In this blog, we will share the additional ‘innovation assets’ that many companies are yet to include in their business innovation strategy. Benefits of Crowdsourcing Ideas Ideas have a huge amount of potential and can result in a variety of benefits for an organization. Creativity then facilitates out of the box thinking.