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Crowdsourced Innovation: Three Things I Learned

IdeaScale

During my first two weeks as a Marketing Intern for IdeaScale, I learned about how the business world operates, particularly how an organization uses crowdsourced innovation with tools such as IdeaScale. Every company says they want to be “innovative” and some of them use “crowdsourcing” to do so. But what do those words really mean?

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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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Identifying the Value of Crowdsourcing: A Talk with Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber

IdeaScale

One method for practicing open innovation is through crowdsourcing, the process of sharing ideas across industries to solve a common problem. What makes an innovation system work is the ability to organize and label an approach to problem-solving. Realizing the Value of Crowdsourcing. Recent surveys reveal 50.8 percent of U.S.

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Examining the State of Crowdsourced Innovation in 2019

IdeaScale

A shared space for ideas, whether that’s in the form of an Innovation Department or a company-wide system for sharing and developing innovative ideas, is essential for translating ideas into action. However, getting those best ideas to decision-makers requires a deliberate system for innovation management.

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Webinar to Highlight Best Practices from NASA’s Internal Crowdsourcing Journey

IdeaScale

Internal crowdsourcing can change how you do business.?. Internal crowdsourcing corrals problems, ideas, and solutions at your place of work or in your industry in one central location. Why Implement Internal Crowdsourcing? Internal crowdsourcing fosters the exchange of ideas among employees. PDT, Thursday, Sept.

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Multi-Planet System Discovered by Crowdsourcing

IdeaConnection

In a stellar achievement by the crowd, NASA has revealed details of the first multi-planet system to be discovered entirely by crowdsourcing. They are orbiting the star K2-138 and it’s thought that there could be more undetected planets within the system. A Closer Look at the System.

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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.