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Five Crowdsourced Ideas that Came From Unlikely Places
Overview: The value of crowdsourcing is that you can find ideas in the most unusual of places. These five, in particular, might surprise you and offer guidance for your crowdsourcing [...]
Celebrate Pride Month by Recognizing the Role of Diversity in Innovation
Overview: Diversity in your innovation team is crucial for finding unique ideas, improved decision-making, and better execution of those ideas. To add diversity, though, will require more than just asking people [...]
What is a Change Agent and How Can They Help Your Organization?
Overview: Change agents are individuals or groups who find and manage change across your organization. While they can be internal or external, change agents share the qualities of flexible thinking, [...]
What Can Your Business Learn About Innovation from Shark Tank Ideas?
Shark Tank has been around in some form or another since 2001, with the Japanese series “Money Tigers.” Yet the basic concept is simple: entrepreneurs pitch their idea to a [...]
How Online Whiteboards Create Lasting Innovation
Innovation is critical to establishing new solutions and is something that every business handles. It can come in many different forms and styles, but regardless of the methods you use, [...]
Webinar: Plan Your Organization’s Crowdsourcing Initiative
Crowdsourcing is an effective way to kick off innovation efforts. Gathering ideas from inside and outside your organization can bolster business and increase revenue. Crowdsourcing initiatives increase innovation performance within [...]
Seven Ways Failure Could Be the Best Thing for Innovation
We fear failure more than we fear spiders, ghosts, or being home alone. And like any fear, it can be both paralyzing and irrational. Here are seven reasons failure is [...]
2021 Crowdsourced Innovation Report
Overview: Ideascale's 2021 Innovation Report finds that 2020 made innovation strategy essential. In 2021, we expect to see faster turnaround times on ideas, even faster growth in departments focused directly [...]
What Formula Made Steve Jobs as an Innovation Leader So Successful?
Steve Jobs as a leader offers a simple set of lessons on innovation: You need to accept failure as part of the process; have a tight focus with clear and [...]
How Do You Score Innovation Ideas?
Overview: It can be difficult to evaluate ideas, especially when they're new and untested, as criteria such as ROI or market size can be difficult to predict. Instead, you need [...]
Three Ways Work From Home Sparks Innovation
Introduction Innovation and creativity are two things that are necessary in order for teams to operate well in the workspace. Especially, when they are involved in collaboration, brainstorming, and ideation, [...]
Who Exactly are the Crowd Workers?
Crowdsourcing allows organizations to find and work with self-selected volunteers to accomplish tasks, gather information, or gain new ideas. The end result is not just the work and insight of [...]