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Crowdsourcing and APIs: Everything You Need to Know

IdeaScale

Crowdsourcing is the act of harnessing the power and work force of a crowd to accomplish a task. Lately, companies creating documentation for APIs have turned to crowdsourcing. She describes falling into crowdsourcing management with no proper training. Crowdsourcing doesn’t happen on its own. Advantages. Disadvantages.

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Best Practices for Internal Crowdsourcing: Lessons Learned from NASA

IdeaScale

Learn innovation and crowdsourcing strategy from NASA. Do you want to know the secrets for success through internal crowdsourcing and innovation storytelling? The center was created in 2011 by the federal Office of Science, Technology, and Policy to foster innovation at NASA and throughout U.S. government departments.

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

Imaginatik

Here is where crowdsourcing comes in. The traditional methods of projecting value did not take into account some of the complexity of a single innovation effort, much less the entire portfolio. They will tell you when the process strays due to delay or other failure, close to or after the fact.

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5 Ideation Objectives

eZassi

For innovative and creative organizations, the challenge is not a lack of good ideas, but no effective system in place to review, score, catalog and process these ideas through the pipeline. Technology Scouting. Configurable collaboration Kanban to keep the project organized and the innovators accountable for progress.

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Does Crowdsourcing Need “Rethinking”?

Qmarkets

Benefits of crowdsourcing: Common Misconceptions In my previous post , I gave a working definition of crowdsourcing and described two major crowdsourcing approaches: adding capacity and accessing expertise. Some of the reasons for the slow adoption of crowdsourcing are rooted in the very nature of the method.

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Striking Gold: The $40m Idea Unearthed Through Crowdsourcing

Qmarkets

We recently caught up with Juan Fernando Correa, the Projects Analyst at Hochschild who is responsible for leading the company’s crowdsourcing initiatives. I am a Projects Analyst at Hochschild, but I trained as a mechanical engineer. Please could you start by telling us a bit about yourself and Hochschild Mining as a whole?

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Innovation Budget Planning

eZassi

From the Harvard Business Review article “ An Agile Approach to Budgeting for Uncertain Times ,” here are the curated questions your team should ask while planning for projects in the year ahead: What are the outcomes that will be most important for strategic success? Technology Scouting Services. Where should resources go?