Open Innovation

Crowdsourcing business or other organization solutions from external problem solution providers, often through prize challenge platforms

5 Simple Questions To Ask Your Crowdsourcing Platform

5 Simple Questions To Ask Your Crowdsourcing Platform

Crowdsourcing is a great way for an organization to generate external input, particularly when it faces a new challenge. Benfits include tapping in to specific areas of interest or expertise that don't exist within your own organization; getting input from people who...

Being BOLD in Crowdsourcing

Being BOLD in Crowdsourcing

It’s easy to forget that the Internet was once all open. Rather, the Internet has been in a continuous cycle of highly-structured portals and free-flowing information. The initial platforms, like BBS boards, gave way to walled gardens like America OnLine. AOL’s drop...

Global Corporation is BOLD Enough to Disrupt Itself

Global Corporation is BOLD Enough to Disrupt Itself

We’re getting increasingly used to witnessing the commercial disruption taking place due to mass digital connectivity giving rise to new business models. In many instances it’s where existing players in a market place come under threat from newcomers who have torn up...

Being Bold in Online Experience and Engagement

Being Bold in Online Experience and Engagement

Just two decades ago, the worldwide web was an uncharted universe. It was so unmapped, companies became billion-dollar brands based on organizing it. Netscape, one of the world’s first widely adopted browsers, turned company co-founder Marc Andreessen into the new...

Searching for the Boldest Citizen Scientist

Searching for the Boldest Citizen Scientist

For centuries, science has been the pursuit of amateur, self-funded and self-motivated scientists: Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin and Thomas Edison – to name just a few. However, in the first half of the 20th century, science became dominated by...

Being BOLD in Open Innovation

Being BOLD in Open Innovation

The past decade has raised the bar in open innovation, particularly the last year. As celebrated at the Crowdsourcing Week 2018 global conference, we’ve recently maximized the power of the group and pushed scientific and technical ideas to their potential. Or have we?...