There’s absolutely nothing wrong with process improvement, but it isn’t the same thing as process innovation. In some ways, innovation is about going “back to the drawing board.” Process improvement [...]
IdeaScale was recently interviewed as part of the 97th Floor Mastermind Series. The questions ranged across a variety of subjects like how we hired our first few team members to [...]
It's June and that means it's thesis season! Every spring at IdeaScale, we start receiving requests from undergraduate and graduate students around the globe who are researching crowdsourcing and its [...]
You'll collect a lot of ideas. How do you find the best? Before you find gold, you find ore. Seemingly dull rocks are pulled from the ground and carefully refined [...]
For those of you who have been utilizing crowdsourcing for awhile, you'll be more than familiar with the story of the "Parable of the Ox." About a century ago a [...]
In case you hadn’t heard, open innovation was defined by Henry Chesbrough as “a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, [...]