Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. Crowdsourcing does have both the potential to point towards disrupting possibilities, extends the concept of open innovation into a wider source of participation from a diverse community not possible to reach by other means as effectively.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 22, 2017

After 69 years of growth, Dick’s is a great company ripe for crowdsourcing and they launched their first company-wide ideation platform last year. But how do we know that a company like Dick’s is a good fit for crowdsourcing? Well, here are a few qualities that make a company more likely to succeed in a crowdsourcing effort.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2016

Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. Crowdsourcing does have both the potential to point towards disrupting possibilities, extends the concept of open innovation into a wider source of participation from a diverse community not possible to reach by other means as effectively.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

Ideascale and Betterific announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform. It also creates an effective feedback loop to assist in refining ideas and targeted markets.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

Crowdsourcing has several business applications: funding source, task assignment, knowledge sharing, and more. It’s helped product teams, marketing departments, strategic decision makers and tons of other disciplines to complete projects. Crowdsourcing has the benefit of building up a virtuous cycle with a brand.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Crowdsourcing and Co-creation : Encourage the use of crowdsourcing and co-creation models where end-users, customers, and the broader community contribute to the innovation process. This helps to accelerate learning and growth within the ecosystem. This can enhance the relevance and impact of the innovations developed.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 18, 2020

Ideascale and Betteriffic announced at the end of January that they were teaming up to bring the latter’s strengths in crowdsourced open innovation to Ideascale’s industry-leading innovation management platform. It also creates an effective feedback loop to assist in refining ideas and targeted markets.

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100%Open

MAY 21, 2019

When Might You Choose a Crowd Over Traditional Market Research Techniques? If you would like particular input or feedback on your product or service, and want to listen to your customers, clients or staff, when would you choose to run a crowd over traditional methods of market research?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This approach supports a culture of continuous learning, adaptation, and external collaboration, positioning the organization for sustained success in an ever-evolving business landscape that recognizes and learns how to collaborate and co-create, moving towards recognizing the value of Business Ecosystems.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Check out our top innovation blogs from 2019 for tips on transforming your product, process, market, and more. Learn how to get those creative juices flowing with tools such as: Google Docs Visual Thesaurus Coggle and more. Crowdsourcing vs. Focus Groups: A Comparative Review. Seven Free Brainstorming Tools for 2019.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It’s about a tech CEO, played by Jeremy Piven, who builds a crowdsourcing platform to help find his daughter’s killer. As an Innovation Strategist at a company that also built a platform that specializes in crowdsourcing, I found the show’s premise intriguing. WOTC : “Crowdsourcing is sifting through the dirt until you find the gold.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Hopefully, this change has enabled better value creation and learning how to innovate. This iterative approach is driving innovation by ensuring that solutions are aligned with user needs and market realities. Instead, they are tapping into the global pool of talent and ideas, using tools like crowdsourcing and hackathons.

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eZassi

OCTOBER 29, 2024

External Inputs : Organizations actively seek ideas and insights from outside their internal teams—through customer feedback, licensing external technologies, or crowdsourcing solutions—complementing their internal innovation efforts. By working with external stakeholders, companies can benefit from broader expertise and diverse perspectives.

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Flying Fish Lab

JULY 25, 2023

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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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 13, 2018

To Learn or to Unlearn – that’s the question. Board members, C-Suites and executives of all stripes are attempting to apply the lessons they learned 10 years ago (or more!) The short-term projects are where leaders are on their surest footing, making minor improvements and simple variations of existing market winners.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 22, 2017

They launched a full internal multi-channel marketing strategy. To learn more about the City of Calgary and their myCityInnovation program, download their case study. . The post Lessons Learned About Innovation Communications from the City of Calgary appeared first on IdeaScale.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 16, 2019

Innovation can come from anywhere, anytime, and learning to encourage and manage innovation is a major competitive differentiator. The Main Ingredient in Crowdsourcing Is the Crowd. Great ideas can come from anywhere, and the main thing you need for productive crowdsourcing is the crowd itself.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The best way to determine when it might be time to implement a change is to develop strategies for collecting information about your audience, your market, and your team. Crowdsourcing ideas from a diverse group of experts can significantly contribute to your business innovation success.

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IdeaScale

JULY 11, 2018

This tenet underpins most of crowdsourcing and all open innovation programs. And if this marketer hadn’t shared their idea in a crowdsourcing community, the product team might never have found it. Opening an Adjacent Market in the Financial Sector. That suggestion created an additional line of revenue over $21.5M.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Whether you have a small innovation committee or a huge crowdsourcing campaign, you’ll find yourself with a lot of energy that you’ll need to harness, or it’ll disperse in all different directions. What market does it serve? To learn more, join our newsletter today. Why A Roadmap?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

I think of the Gartner Hype Cycle here as we have gone through each of the stages of recognition of the application and the learning from this; we have the innovation triggers first, then a peak or inflated expectations, followed by troughs of disillusionment and finally by the slope of enlightenment, to give a new plateau of productivity.

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Planview

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, Gartner recently named crowdsourcing as the most effective independent discipline that CIOs can adopt to drive digital transformation. The advantages of crowdsourced innovation can’t be ignored. Pitching a crowdsourced innovation program to an executive team is a lot like pitching a startup to a venture capitalist.

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Business and Tech

JUNE 21, 2023

Cynthia Johnson co-founded the Santa Monica, CA-based marketing agency Bell +Ivy as well as the non-profit WonderKey, which provides tech to foster kids. The real launching point was when we heard from one of our co-founders that she crowdsourced a phone that had video on it for her foster son’s mother so they could facetime.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 8, 2015

As part of my job, advising others on all things swirling around innovation, I invest significant time in researching, learning and applying what I feel is important to others, so as to understand or at least to raise their awareness to changing practices, thinking or approaches.

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Planview

AUGUST 26, 2015

Confused by crowdsourcing? But with 30% of CEOs worried that they’re not risking enough for growth, and 69% fearful of competitors stealing their business , it’s time to learn the ropes. In a nutshell of 6 easy steps, this is how crowdsourcing innovation works. Spigit crowdsourcing software does all the hard work for you.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Overview : Founded in 2017 off of a popular crowdsourcing initiative, the Government Services Administration (GSA)’s 10X program internally crowdsources ideas to design new approaches and launch new programs. And the GSA has learned a few lessons over the last six years that explain their success. Pick A Focused Crowd.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 8, 2017

JUMP is an online crowdsourcing community launched in 2015. In some cases, the Labs are able to connect with and establish partnerships with accelerators programs to further support and expedite the technology to market. In order to meet program objectives, ORNL launched JUMP.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Nearly all of their brands were struggling with stagnant or declining market share. For starters, you can crowdsource clues from elsewhere in your own organization. At most large corporations, if there’s a groundbreaking new technology or market trend, someone is aware of it. They thought they needed a new growth strategy.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 13, 2019

How innovation is accomplished is changing too, and IdeaScale invites you to download our white paper on crowdsourcing and technology to learn how crowdsourcing improves speed-to-market while reducing R&D costs. The post Top 5 Women Innovators of All Time appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2023

Greater use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate tasks and provide more intelligent recommendations. Simplicity and ease of use: Making the software easy to use and navigate could increase adoption by reducing the learning curve.

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Yet2

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The longer process allows for ample time to create enough buzz for an extended global submission period, sufficient time to review and present proposals on a rolling basis, plan effective marketing campaigns to keep users engaged, and thoughtfully make final decisions. Contact yet2 and learn more about your challenge opportunity!

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Planview

APRIL 15, 2024

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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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

If you want to learn more about putting innovation and crowdsourcing to work in nonprofits, IdeaScale invites you to download our Crowdsourcing and Nonprofits white paper. Just as innovation improves profitability in the for-profit world , it improves the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It’s the strategies, idea stage gate and workflows that move creative ideas, novel technologies, or key market insights through an efficient and transparent pipeline of challenge solvers and intrapreneurs to drive sustainable growth and gain a competitive edge. Why is it significant?

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IdeaScale

MAY 28, 2019

They may also advise on innovation culture, ideation processes, and identification of new markets. They’re experts in innovative thinking, finding innovation partners, and implementing the key innovation steps of: Building Measuring Learning Repeating. Innovation consultants earn around $97,000 per year. Chief Innovation Officer.

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IdeaScale

OCTOBER 4, 2017

We’ve honored a variety of organizations and companies in the past and we hope that we have just as much to learn this year. Learn more about any of these stories (2013 – 2016) by following the links in their summaries: 2013 : The Cerebral Palsy Alliance. Crowdsourcing a winning ballot measure! 2015: Innovate Your State.

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