Problem Solving Archives - Crowdsourcing Week Blog

How Crowdsourcing Built The World’s #1 Wine Brand

by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey | Jul 2, 2019 |

Hi! We are Michael and Bonnie, the founders of the world’s largest wine brand. Did you know that we used crowdsourcing to build Barefoot Wine? Sure, it wasn’t called “Crowdsourcing” back then, but it was the secret to our...

HeroX: the Social Network of Prize Challenges

by Clive Reffell | Jul 2, 2019 |

Finding the right talent to solve your problem can be difficult. Crowdsourcing helps you access a global pool of on-demand talent, helping to make innovation efforts less expensive, easier to manage and of better quality through...

Is Blockchain the Key to Saving Bricks-and-Mortar Retailers?

by Noam Levenson | Jul 1, 2019 |

The skeletons of massive brick and mortar stores line the streets of America – vestiges of a dying age. 2018 saw the close of over 6,000 stores in America. It’s hard to relegate this to a specific industry –...

Prize Competitions Part 3: Choosing the Appropriate Crowd to Compete

by Christopher Frangione | May 30, 2019 |

This is the third part in our three-part blog series on prize competitions. In Part 1 we shared the power of prize competitions. Part 2 helped you understand what makes a successful prize competition. Now, we will give you some...

Prize Competitions Part 2: Success is in the Design

by Christopher Frangione | May 23, 2019 |

This is the second part in our three-part blog series on prize competitions, or prize challenges as some people prefer to call them. In Part 1 we shared the power of prize competitions as a means to generate open innovation...

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...

Improving Leaders’ Performance Through Team Engagement

by Clive Reffell | Sep 20, 2018 |

We live in a time of momentous changes. Yet there’s no doubt about it, most people are resistant to change. Change moves people out of a comfort zone of established performance norms and behaviors, and can change the balance of...

CSW’s Conference in Swedish Lapland Starts in Luleå

by Clive Reffell | Mar 22, 2018 |

Niklas Nordström, Mayor of Luleå, opened our five-day international crowdsourcing conference in Swedish Lapland on Tuesday March 20. The city of Luleå on the Baltic Sea coast near the Arctic Circle is the first of the...