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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Flying Fish Lab

JULY 25, 2023

From Outside the company : we ran a custom-designed crowdsourcing challenge, looking to create category firsts in frozen meals, exploring various territories, including the ones we identified had worked in other markets.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In 2017, United Way Worldwide’s (UWW) Innovation Team worked with a group of eight United Ways to pioneer and test crowdsourcing to engage individuals digitally in a new and innovative way (especially Millennials) using IdeaScale and they learned a lot along the way. Crowdsourcing requires a great question.

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IdeaScale

AUGUST 22, 2017

In this post, I’d like to talk about how design thinking complements crowdsourced innovation. I don’t think I need to point out the obvious parallels to crowdsourcing here, do I? Research: This phase is about conducting personal interviews and external research (studies etc). The two methods are a natural fit.

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Yet2

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Should you opt for tech scouting or crowdsourcing? Tim Bernstein , CEO of yet2 and Christian Cotichini , CEO of HeroX tackle this topic in HeroX’s recent webinar, Crowdsourcing vs TechScouting: Which One is Better? Tim and Christian also address: How open innovation portals combine tech scouting and crowdsourcing.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2021

These innovation case studies will uncover a secret weapon that your organization might not be leveraging to its fullest! Well, you can work with external networks of talent and expertise by extending your crowdsourcing efforts beyond your organization’s walls. Innovation Case Study #1: Unbossing the Environment at Novartis.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 20, 2018

That’s made schools of all levels and the wider education industry that supports them a fruitful ground for crowdsourcing approaches. Three schools, in particular, have used crowdsourcing to make changes for the good of students. Now Columbia uses crowdsourcing to listen and act, making the school the best it can be.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Crowdsourcing is quickly evolving and gaining notoriety in the business world. According to a study performed by the company Eyeka in 2014, in the past 10 years, 85% of the top global brands have used crowdsourcing efforts within their company. Interacting digitally through crowdsourcing is the quickest way this can be done.

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IdeaScale

MAY 14, 2019

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Most businesses understand the importance of crowdsourcing, and as a result, are implementing it into their business plans. Decentralization.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Learn how universities are using crowdsourcing. Here’s how crowdsourcing can push innovation further, from major studies to brainstorming tools. Here’s how crowdsourcing can push innovation further, from major studies to brainstorming tools. Crowdsourcing In Academia. Effective Crowdsourcing.

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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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Crowdsourcing Company Case Study Development Team Review 100

Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Crowdsourcing is an excellent way to get inspiration to solve your challenge or sometimes even generate potential solutions. Crowdsourcing is not just for NPD, it can also be used to help you with your Communications innovation. It’s often used to inspire New Product innovation.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 12, 2017

And NASA has taken one of its first steps into its own new frontier: Crowdsourcing. The Crowdsourcing Frontier. NASA’s reluctance to crowdsource in the past has largely been a product of its culture. Some of NASA’s biggest crowdsourcing initiatives have been tied to its desire to know more about the Solar System.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Over the years I’ve written numerous times about not only the growth in crowdsourcing and other methods of open innovation, but the various studies seeking to understand how we can do so effectively.

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Planview

MAY 21, 2019

In fact, the 170-year-old company produces an average of 38 inventions per day, a number powered by their crowdsourcing solutions. The post Siemens Case Study: Crowdsourcing Solutions to Turn Gridlock into Green Lights appeared first on Spigit. The Challenge.

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IdeaConnection

APRIL 29, 2016

A new crowdsourcing app developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge in the UK could help them to understand more about the relationship between biodiversity and well-being. While earlier studies have suggested that people are happier in natural settings, it is unclear whether all green spaces promote happiness equally.

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InnovationManagement

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The post What Can We Learn About Crowdsourcing in a Pandemic from NASA? At NASA, the entire NASA workforce expressed their desire to help the nation combat the virus – even though most of their employees were asked to work from home. appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

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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IdeaConnection

JANUARY 19, 2018

In a stellar achievement by the crowd, NASA has revealed details of the first multi-planet system to be discovered entirely by crowdsourcing. It’s hosted on Zooniverse, an online platform for crowdsourcing research. Researchers continued to study the system after its discovery. A Closer Look at the System.

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InnovationManagement

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

This month we’re seeing a large number of medical studies calling for crowdsourced data, and finally we can learn from ZTE’s failure to crowdsource a smartphone. The trend of incorporating “citizen scientists” in the search for data and groundbreaking ideas is expanding from the glaciers all the way to Mars.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He says surprising things happen when you pull together a multidisciplinary group to crowdsource ideas. Stearns’ story is a great example of this sort of crowdsourced product development. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine.

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IdeaScale

JULY 12, 2017

Where does crowdsourcing fit in education? But, in education, there’s a lot of room for crowdsourcing, and it can be a source of innovative ideas. The truth is that educators and professors have been crowdsourcing well before Kickstarter came along. But in academia, crowdsourcing can be a useful tool for getting work done.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Unlike crowdsourcing, co-creation uses a small group of known partners and involves deeper collaboration. Unlike crowdsourcing, co-creation uses a small group of known partners and involves deeper collaboration. One could perhaps think of crowdsourcing and co-creation as different aspects of open innovation.

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IdeaScale

JULY 17, 2018

One study found that if you’re completing repetitive tasks, listening to music will make an employee perform their task faster than a counterpart without music. Well, one of our innovation strategists, Whitney Bernstein , took some time to crowdsource an “Innovation Playlist.” Music can help in task efficiency.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 28, 2020

Through real-life case studies, they explained how managing internal ideas can increase productivity and enable companies to better serve their customers. The IdeaScale software is primarily used to crowdsource ideas. The CEO suggested crowdsourcing as a way to promote employee engagement.

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Planview

JULY 28, 2015

You might have heard that crowdsourcing innovation is really hard to manage. Here are 4 crowdsourcing myths you’ve probably heard — and why you shouldn’t let them stop you from giving it a try. Here are 4 crowdsourcing myths you’ve probably heard — and why you shouldn’t let them stop you from giving it a try.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Put another way, you only need to conduct in-depth studies of customer wants and needs if there are no other reliable ways for this information to easily flow between company and customer. To be sure, there will still be an important role for market research in the coming era of crowdsourced ideation and innovation.

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Planview

AUGUST 6, 2015

Recently, Spigit CTO James Gardner shared some of his expert tips on using crowdsourcing software to build your innovation pipeline. Using a crowdsourcing platform will often remove the majority of the legwork.”. Crowdsourcing Innovation = Diverse Ideas and Predictable Outcomes. Here’s what we learned. Incremental is Okay.

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Planview

AUGUST 19, 2015

Crowdsourcing innovation is one of today’s most powerful tools for effecting real, lasting change. It was exactly this benefit that led the Poway Unified School District of California to develop their InnovationU program, backed by Spigit , to crowdsource ideas for improving the safety and security of all students and staff district-wide.

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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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IdeaScale

JULY 24, 2018

There are lots of studies and articles and books about the virtues of introverts – they’re excellent listeners, observers, happily independent. To learn more about NYU’s AMC crowdsourcing initiative, download the case study here! Ideas come first, consensus can come later. Empowering Introverts.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Put another way, you only need to conduct in-depth studies of customer wants and needs if there are no other reliable ways for this information to easily flow between company and customer. To be sure, there will still be an important role for market research in the coming era of crowdsourced ideation and innovation.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Their presentation at Open Nation this year was regarded as one of the favorite (and most useful presentations), because presenter Commander Andy Howell was great at articulating the fact that crowdsourcing communities sit at the intersection of continuous innovation and learning.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 8, 2017

JUMP is an online crowdsourcing community launched in 2015. To learn more about Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s use of crowdsourcing for innovation, read the full case study here. In order to meet program objectives, ORNL launched JUMP.

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InnovationManagement

JANUARY 11, 2021

Every year, IdeaScale conducts an in-depth study of their customer trends in order to write an annual report, provide benchmarks to our clients (and ourselves), and better understand the marketplace.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 4, 2017

Innovate Your State ran the Challenge using IdeaScale ’s crowdsourcing platform. To learn more about the Fix California Challenge and Innovate Your State, read the full case study here. Over the last year, Tim Draper’s Fix California Challenge solicited reform ideas from around the world. appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Planview

OCTOBER 15, 2015

But only Spigit customer Polaris has crowdsourcing to thank for the unique design of the Slingshot, their recently-released three-wheel motorcycle that’s been compared to every superhero transport in the books. Crowdsourcing a Best-Seller at Polaris. How Spigit helped them make the process of ideation to execution 80% faster.

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