"…knowledge diversity facilitates all types of contributions to open innovation projects" When we talk about interactions between companies and its exterior stakeholders, we can say that the knowledge or cultural diversity or even diversity with experiences is key to...
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Crowdfunding is Propelling Social Innovation
Social innovation refers to new strategies, concepts, ideas and organizations that meet social needs of all kinds — from working conditions and education to community development and health — and that extend and strengthen civil society. Social media and the internet...
GE: Industrial Internet Will Connect Data, Machines and People
At the Minds+ Machines Conference in Silicon Valley, November last year, GE's CEO Jeffrey Immelt hosted an event to address a room full of innovators in San Francisco. He touted the "Industrial Internet" as the next frontier in innovation. What is the Industrial...
Do You Have The Courage to Follow?
We are always being taught to become great leaders. But how often have you see information or tips to become a great follower? What makes a pioneering follower. You will agree with me that a movement cannot be created with just a bunch a great leaders. We need an...
Crowdchat Recap: Elance Levels the Field for Businesses & Freelancers through Transparency
Our first #Crowdchat of 2013 was with the CMO of Elance Rich Pearson. Elance is a leading workforce crowdsourcing platform and Rich's expertise in crowd-centric business models makes him a leading marketing voice in the space. On the crowd chat, Rich covered a range...
Crowdsource Your Customer Acquisition and Business Development
Using a crowdsourcing site for referrals can be a big time-saver as well. Anyone who owns or runs a business is always trying to maximize his limited time, and online crowdsourcing is very efficient. There is no travel involved, and conversations are limited to the...
Mosaic: Cleantech Crowdfunding Finances Solar Projects in Record Time
Do you know what the return is on your saving account? Close to nothing. The sharing and crowdsourcing economy is paving the way for more robust methods of investments with real return on many fronts. Mosaic just launched the first online clean energy investment...
Be Competitively Unpredictable!
Re-published from 15 Inno Can open innovation help your company become competitively unpredictable? Well, in this video, I start out by talking about John Conoley, a CEO at Psion, who said that this objective was one of the key reasons for him to pursue open...
Crowdsourcing Week Announces First Global Conference
via press release Crowdsourcing Week announces the first global conference on crowdsourcing, open innovation and crowdfunding in Singapore, June 3 - 7, 2013. This international 5-day curated event will focus on how "a crowd of people" can make outstanding...
CrowdChat 2013: Rich Pearson of Elance on the Future of Freelancing on Jan 9, 8 PM EST
What is Crowdsourcing Week’s new year resolution? Well, one is to deepen the online dialogue about crowdsourcing, and we’ll be ramping up our #CrowdChat schedule in 2013 to bring you a number of industry experts for insightful, accessible chats on the powerful...
Interview of Siham Belouadheh, Marketing Manager France of 99designs
On November 27th, 99designs announced the launch of a localized French website (99design.fr) and presented its Country Manager for France, Siham Belouadheh. Siham works closely with Eva Missling, 99designs’ General Manager of Europe, and will be supporting...
HunchBuzz: A Crowdsourcing Startup Helps Companies Reduce R&D Costs
HunchBuzz is a new New Zealand based startup on the block that provides cloud based customer & employee engagement platform. HunchBuzz enables entrepreneurs and businesses to strategically generate and manage innovative internal & external ideas, though...
Astronomers Welcome All to Identify Stars in Andromeda Galaxy
Astronomers are inviting the public to search Hubble Space Telescope images of the Andromeda galaxy to help identify star clusters and increase understanding of how galaxies evolve. The new Andromeda Project, set to study thousands of high-resolution Hubble images, is...
Razoo Helps Charities Fundraise & Engage Effectively: Q&A with Lesley Mansford
Lesley Mansford, CEO of Razoo answered a few questions for us on Razoo, a social fundraising platform that is changing the dynamics of corporate and personal charity. Razoo endeavors to make it easy to not only support your favorite cause, but is also proving to be a...