Align Innovation Incentives to Goals
A lot of crowdsourced innovation programs will tell you to offer incentives to your community of participants in order to drive engagement – but sometimes that’s a challenge for organization [...]
Community Engagement Tips
Crowdsourced innovation communities only succeed when they bring in new voices and encourage them to share ideas. Companies with higher ideation rates are associated with higher profits and net growth, [...]
13 Things to Know About Crowdsourcing
United Way is engaged in nearly 1,800 communities across more than 40 countries and territories worldwide. As the largest privately-funded nonprofit in the world, United Way creates solutions that build stronger [...]
Holiday Incentives – Let’s Get Festive!
The holiday season is a great time to crowdsource, because creativity will be at its peak when people mix at holiday parties and share new ideas. But, it’s also a [...]
Introducing: CBS’s Wisdom of the Crowd
CBS debuted a new show Sunday night called “Wisdom of the Crowd.” It’s about a tech CEO, played by Jeremy Piven, who builds a crowdsourcing platform to help find his [...]
3 Tactics that Make Innovation Management Easier
IdeaScale learns from all its best customers, but in our latest interview with Redwood Credit Union we learned three things that make innovation management easier: Pre-Populate Your Campaign. When RCU [...]
Incentives for Participation or Incentives for Success? What Works?
In a fast-paced corporate environment where there are many expectations and a steady stream of work, how (and more importantly) why, would you carve out time to contribute to your [...]
Five Tips for Selling Your Executive Team on Crowdsourcing’s Value
Get everyone on board with crowdsourcing. Why do companies resist crowdsourcing? It's a tough question, and if you're looking to boost crowdsourcing as a solution, it can seem a tough [...]
How Crowdsourcing is Enhancing the Healthcare Sector
Many perspectives make for smarter medicine. In 2013, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation took a step that many found surprising: creating a prize and asking the world to reengineer [...]
How to Foster a Culture of Innovation at Your Company
Your business is in it to win it. Winning consistently over decades takes constant work on your innovation strategy, because things change. When people gave up their buggies for cars, [...]