How United Way Served Community Needs During the COVID-19 Crisis
Stories and information about the coronavirus pandemic have been all over the news – on our social media feeds, newspapers, and TV. In order to see the problems in United Way's communities before they hit the news, United Way [...]
How The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Recognizes Emerging Innovators
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with protecting public health and safety related to nuclear energy. And when they decided that they wanted to diversify their approach to innovation, they decided [...]
The Five Questions You Need to Answer Before Crowdsourcing
After serving numerous enterprise innovators for years, IdeaScale Crowd is sharing the process that we take all innovators through before they launch a crowdsourcing challenge. The overview will include the five questions, the reasons why we ask for this [...]
The Rollercoaster of Improvement and Innovation in Healthcare
Northern Health is the key provider of public health care in Melbourne’s northern region, one of the fastest growing communities in Australia, with the busiest Emergency Department in the state. Historically not a well-funded or “sexy” health service, NH has [...]
A Look Inside the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Virtual Innovation Lab
Tony Seba, author of Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation said “we are on the cusp of one of the fastest, deepest, most consequential disruptions of transportation in history.” The Virginia Department of Transportation is responding to this signal [...]
How NYU Plans for the Future with the Help of the Crowd
In 2020, universities and other education institutions are facing new and pressing challenges: remote learning, budgetary constraints, renewed attention on diversity and inclusion, and other important changes. Universities have to do more with less, be inclusive and innovative all [...]
How to Utilize Crowdsourcing as Part of Your Agency’s COVID-19 Response Strategy
As part of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (USDOL) efforts to support American workers and position the economy for a strong rebound, USDOL hosted an IdeaScale national online dialogue to solicit ideas about challenges that may be faced as [...]
NASA’s Internal Crowd
This session will discuss best practices determined through NASA's past 8 years of running an internal crowdsourcing program. It includes best practices around engagement, process, and innovation storytelling.