Category: Crowdsourcing

Prize Competitions, Part 1: The Power of Prize Competitions to Accelerate R&D

by Christopher Frangione | May 16, 2019 |

This is the first part in a three-part blog series on using prize competitions, also called prize challenges. In this Part 1 we share the power and benefits of prize competitions. In Part 2 we will help you understand what makes...

5 Simple Questions To Ask Your Crowdsourcing Platform

by Michael Dehoyos | May 1, 2019 |

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...

Crowdsourcing is Unlocking Billions of Dollars in Primary Industry

by Holly Bridgwater | Apr 2, 2019 |

Crowdsourcing and open innovation are staring to be recognised within primary industry as effective ways to validate concepts at low risk, solve complex challenges, find new innovative suppliers and automate work. As a...

Being Bold in Crowdsourcing

by Damon Brown | Mar 14, 2019 |

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...

“In order to have a breakthrough, you have to break something”

by Epi Ludvik Nekaj | Feb 26, 2019 |

I wish I had come up with that line, but I must give credit to Joe Polish. It neatly sums up the times we’re living in, where the pace and scale of change are disrupting many established business models and social norms, and...

Bold Open Innovation Sparking Both Business and Social Impact

by Shay Hershkovitz | Feb 20, 2019 |

Open innovation is a term coined by Henry Chesbrough in his 2003 book, “Open Innovation: The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology”. Open innovation assumes that valuable ideas can come from inside or out of...

Global Corporation is BOLD Enough to Disrupt Itself

by Clive Reffell | Feb 13, 2019 |

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...

Being Bold in Online Experience and Engagement

by Damon Brown | Jan 31, 2019 |

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...

Searching for the Boldest Citizen Scientist

by Shay Hershkovitz | Jan 22, 2019 |

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...

Overcoming Barriers to Adopt Innovation Crowdsourcing

by Enrique Ramirez | Jan 18, 2019 |

Managing change within an organization is never easy since a company is essentially formed by people, and people are not usually easy to change because of cultural factors (the culture of the country, the industry, the company...