Crowdsourcing

Discover the impactful ways crowdsourcing – the practice of engaging a ‘crowd’ or group for a common goal, often for innovation, problem solving, or efficiency – is being applied on many different levels and across various industries.

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?...

Food Sharing App Tackles $1 Trillion Annual Wastage

Food Sharing App Tackles $1 Trillion Annual Wastage

A third of all the food produced in the world is thrown away. It represents an annual value of $1 trillion, and in the UK half the food is wasted in the home.  It’s one of our planet’s greatest problems. There are millions of people who don’t have enough,...

Open Innovation Success Through HeroX Challenges

Open Innovation Success Through HeroX Challenges

More and more organizations, including some of the largest corporations, are increasingly moving their problem solution processes and product or service development ideation from an internal to an external environment. Through creating challenges with cash and other...

How Horizon State Leads the Blockchain Charge

How Horizon State Leads the Blockchain Charge

The blockchain discussion is often focused on the financial benefits – indeed, you can often catch new folks interchange “bitcoin” and “blockchain” in common conversation. The impact, though, will go well beyond fiat currencies and business markets. One of the...