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Talk-n-Tweet | Collaborative Innovation at Scale

Talk-n-Tweet | Collaborative Innovation at Scale

By Hutch Carpenter on September 24, 2014

Previously, I’ve described Why Crowdsourcing Works. Crowdsourcing is a case where you get many people who don’t one another collaborating toward a defined outcome.To reiterate the principle points about the value of crowdsourcing: Diverse inputs drive superior solutions Cognitive diversity requires spanning gaps in social networks Simple enough, yet actually a rich field for work and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaboration, crowdsourcing, e2.0, enterprise 2.0, enterprise innovation, innochat, innovation, mba, motivations, Social Business

Harvesting Abundance in the Sharing Economy

Harvesting Abundance in the Sharing Economy

By Hutch Carpenter on September 11, 2014

The amateurs are coming! Are you ready? Over time, we have seen transitions in how goods and services are supplied to buyers. It used to be that you were limited to what you could buy in your local village. With the rise of industrialization and subsequent globalization, choices increased and costs went down. But inevitably, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged abundance, crowdsourcing, sharing economy

Avoid these 3 mistakes when asking for employee ideas

Avoid these 3 mistakes when asking for employee ideas

By Hutch Carpenter on August 7, 2014

Global advisory and research firm Ovum recently forecast 8% annual growth over the next five years for innovation management. Strong momentum, as organizations awake to the cognitive surplus their employees possess. Sadly, some companies launching employee innovation programs will inevitably find the going tough. They’ll launch their innovation initiative with great fanfare. They’ll give themselves the powerful […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged crowdsourcing, Innovation Programs

What if customers evaluated your company’s ideas?

What if customers evaluated your company’s ideas?

By Hutch Carpenter on June 19, 2014

At the 2014 HYPE Innovation Managers Forum in Bonn, I hosted a roundtable that looked at Involving Customers in the Innovation Process. There were over a dozen different corporations represented in the discussion. To spur the conversation, I mapped the points for customer involvement as: What customers want (jobs-to-be-done) ideas (open innovation) Feedback on options (collaborative design) As […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged crowdsourcing, innovation | 1 Response

Consultant-Led Innovation

Consultant-Led Innovation

By Hutch Carpenter on May 5, 2014

Finally, remember Innovation won’t come from plans or people outside your company – it will be found in the people you already have inside who understand your company’s strengths and its vulnerabilities. Steve Blank, Esade Business School Commencement Speech I think Steve Blank – well-respected thinker on innovation and entrepreneurship – has hit a key point […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged consultants, consulting, crowdsourcing, employees, innovation, management consulting, mba, Steve Blank | 1 Response

How deep does crowdsourced problem-solving go?

How deep does crowdsourced problem-solving go?

By Hutch Carpenter on March 27, 2014

On the recent post, Why crowdsourcing works, Michael Fruhling of BFS Innovations asked: A couple of related questions: for most current crowd sourced problem solving endeavors, how “deep” does the problem solving routinely go? And do the results meaningfully change if incentives are introduced? It was a good, thoughtful question. I answered it in the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged crowdsourcing, innovation management, mba, problem-solving

Why crowdsourcing works

Why crowdsourcing works

By Hutch Carpenter on March 6, 2014

Crowdsourcing is a method of solving problems through the distributed contributions of multiple people. It’s used to address tough problems that happen everyday. Ideas for new opportunities. Ways to solve problems. Uncovering an existing approach that addresses your need. Time and again, crowdsourcing has been used successfully to solve challenges. But…why does it work? What’s […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cognitive diversity, crowdsourcing, geek, innovation, innovation management, problem-solving, social networks | 1 Response

An architecture of participation

An architecture of participation

By Mårten Mickos on June 15, 2012

What happens when half of the world’s population lives in cities? When over three billion people are online? When there are more than 15 billion connected devices?
Old organizational models hit …

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source, Your POV | Tagged architecture of participation, collaboration, command and control, community, crowdsourcing, Khan Academy, linux, participate

Fixing Software Patents, One Hack At Time

Fixing Software Patents, One Hack At Time

By Chirag Mehta on April 30, 2012

Software patents are broken and patent trolls are seriously hurting innovation. Companies are spending more money on buying patents to launch offensive strikes against other companies instead of competing by building great products. There are numerous patent horror stories I could outline where they are being used for all purposes except to innovate. In fact […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Creative Commons, crowdsourcing, innovation, patent troll, patents, Prior art

Appirio CloudSpokes - For The Cloud, On The Cloud, By The Cloud (Provider)

Appirio CloudSpokes – For The Cloud, On The Cloud, By The Cloud (Provider)

By Krishnan Subramanian on March 1, 2011

Two weeks back, the cloud based systems integrator Appirio announced a new developer community called CloudSpokes. This is an attempt by Appirio to crowdsource cloud development work on public cloud platforms. They already have a good group of developers inside USA and have an offshore partner in India. They are trying to build a community […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged appirio, CloudSpokes, community, Crowdsource, crowdsourcing, developer community, developers, insights, mobile, public clouds

OnCompare: Finally a Service to Help Pick Other Web-based Services (Yes, Yelp +++)

OnCompare: Finally a Service to Help Pick Other Web-based Services (Yes, Yelp +++)

By Zoli Erdos on February 2, 2011

It’s rare I get excited by a new service, but OnCompare has great promise, and if my own experience trying / discarding services is any indication, it serves a real need.  Mashable calls is Yelp For Software, not without reason, in fact half a year ago it was just a cry out for help by […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Product reviews | Tagged crowdsourcing, oncompare, saas, social reviews, software selection, yelp

Model for Employee Innovation: Amazon Prime Case Study

Model for Employee Innovation: Amazon Prime Case Study

By Hutch Carpenter on December 2, 2010

As more organizations expand the innovation mandate throughout their workforce, creating and maintaining an ongoing employee innovation program is critical. Sustainable innovation requires a process, not a haphazard, random luck approach. To that end, a useful model to follow is: The different activities address important aspects of innovation, from eliciting tacit ideas inside people’s heads… Read More

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, blog, crowdsourcing, employees, innovation management, roi

Google To Crowdsource Web Application Security

Google To Crowdsource Web Application Security

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 1, 2010

Google is now trying crowdsource the security researchers from around the world (well, almost as the list doesn’t include countries in the banned list of US government) to find vulnerabilities in the web properties under Google. This is not something new and many providers use this approach to find vulnerabilities in their web applications and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged crowdsourcing, google, saas, vulnerability, web applications

The Benefits of Letting Others Recast Your Problem

The Benefits of Letting Others Recast Your Problem

By Hutch Carpenter on October 11, 2010

At the recent Spigit Innovation Summit, MIT professor and leading Enterprise 2.0 thinker Andrew McAfee related the crowdsourcing story of Foldit, about which he also blogged. Foldit is an online game where rank amateurs can try their hand at folding pr…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged crowdsourcing, distributed computing, Foldit, Online game

Crowdsourcing Our New Logo Design.  Time to Vote.

Crowdsourcing Our New Logo Design. Time to Vote.

By Zoli Erdos on September 1, 2010

We’re putting our money where our (digital) mouth is:  having talked so much about crowdsourcing, we took 99designs for a test drive, hoping to see a new CloudAve logo emerge. I was not too impressed with the initial submissions, but just as I sus…

Posted in Design, Featured Posts | Tagged 99designs, crowdsourcing, Design, design contest, Ebay, logo, logo contest

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