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Iowa Department of Transportation Selects Qmarkets Platform for Cross-Functional Idea Crowdsourcing Initiative

Qmarkets

Iowa, United States – The Iowa Department of Transportation – a government agency that assures that transportation in Iowa gets people and goods where they need to go safely, efficiently and conveniently – has launched an open innovation platform to harness the wisdom of all relevant stakeholders throughout the state.

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Iowa Department of Transportation Selects Qmarkets Platform for Cross-Functional Idea Crowdsourcing Initiative

Qmarkets

Iowa, United States – The Iowa Department of Transportation – a government agency that assures that transportation in Iowa gets people and goods where they need to go safely, efficiently and conveniently – has launched an open innovation platform to harness the wisdom of all relevant stakeholders throughout the state.

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Iowa Department of Transportation Selects Qmarkets Platform for Cross-Functional Idea Crowdsourcing Initiative

Qmarkets

Iowa, United States – The Iowa Department of Transportation – a government agency that assures that transportation in Iowa gets people and goods where they need to go safely, efficiently and conveniently – has launched an open innovation platform to harness the wisdom of all relevant stakeholders throughout the state.

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New Business Designs can be delivered through a Business Ecosystem Approach.

Paul Hobcraft

When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing. Manufacturing: Challenges: Industry 4.0

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Crowdsourcing and APIs: Everything You Need to Know

IdeaScale

Due to the distributed nature of the work, it is easy to miss things. If the writing is not in the correct format with the correct technical characteristics, then it is not useful. But if everything isn’t already packed up in easy-to-transport boxes, the volunteers flounder.”. Disadvantages.

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My 5 S for future Innovation: Smart, Stacks, Scale, Storage, and Software

Paul Hobcraft

Technology is radically altering our need for innovation. We see increasingly innovation is feeding off the “ digital response rate ” Connecting technology and innovation is altering how we should re-access organizations ability to build out. I got a lot out of that mapping that is continuing to take my thinking out.

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Understanding innovation's past leads to incredible insight

Jeffrey Phillips

Very few companies existed and most "innovation" was in the realm of transportation - primarily moving goods and/or people on waterways (canals, steamships) or rail. Innovation during this time was focused on technology - especially weaponry. What emerges about innovation from this review of history?