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How Consumers Are Crowdsourcing Health and Safety Matters

IdeaScale

However, the data from crowdsourcing needs to be balanced against other expertise, so health professionals need to participate in these crowds and help guide them. Now patients have another option, using social media networks, podcasts , and other tools to crowdsource. Health In An Interconnected World. Getting The Best From The Crowd.

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

IdeaScale

In Scenarios, Beyond the Design Cycle , Michal Bobick states “Scenario planning creates a space to critically examine assumptions and emerging challenges related to products, users, competitors, or industries. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine.

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How Property Managers Can Utilize Technology to Optimize Their Rentals

Business and Tech

In an expansive interview, real estate expert Steve Weikal explains how technology is changing the housing market for the better. Steve Weikal Head of Industry Relations, MIT Center for Real Estate. Sometimes we joke that the real estate industry still runs off of a 41-year-old technology called the spreadsheet.

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Three Interesting Examples of Crowdsourcing in the Financial Sector

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing can add up in surprising ways. Can finance benefit from crowdsourcing? While open innovation and crowdsourcing are incredibly popular in other industries, the financial industry is necessarily more conservative about the technology it uses and the consumers it listens to. Community Engagement.

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Valuation: an off-label use of innovation management technologies

Imaginatik

Here is where crowdsourcing comes in. As an example, the CFO of an industry leading global company with a $2b+ innovation portfolio was challenged to find a way to even estimate when parts of their portfolio would become cash positive once the innovations proceeded into production. More things can go wrong. There is no track record.

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How Crowdsourcing Innovation Helps Your Team

IdeaScale

Why is crowdsourcing right for you? Many people tend to view crowdsourcing, internal or external, and internal teamwork as either/or propositions; one tends to be the backup for the other. Crowdsourcing allows you to include more perspectives and ideas, to everyone’s benefit. Crowdsourcing isn’t one size fits all.

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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.