Category Archives: Crowdsourcing

We’ll get back to you. Or not.

Posted on January 17, 2019 by Eugene Ivanov

During my time at InnoCentive, there was a job I and my colleagues hated the most: collecting clients’ feedback to contributions by the members of the InnoCentive crowd. The clients would post a problem to the InnoCentive website, and a … Continue reading →

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Broken bone, anyone? “Crowdsourcing in reverse” on accidental injuries extends deadline!

Posted on July 8, 2018 by Eugene Ivanov

This is a guest post written by Dr. Benjamin Missbach (benjamin.missbach@lbg.ac.at), Project Manager at the Open Innovation in Science Center (Vienna, Austria) and a driving force behind the “Tell Us!” project. People suffer accidents, right? In fact, many people around … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing “in reverse”: asking crowds to ask questions

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Eugene Ivanov

It’s important to understand that crowdsourcing is first and foremost a question, a question that you ask a large and, ideally, diversified crowd of people. And for as long as it’s well-thought-out, properly defined, and clearly articulated, it doesn’t really matter … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing 2.0

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Eugene Ivanov

I like to argue, only half-jokingly, that crowdsourcing is very simple. It consists of only two components: a question and a crowd—a question that you present to a crowd and a crowd that you assemble to answer this question. And … Continue reading →

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Don’t “fiddle” with the crowd — ask it better questions instead

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Eugene Ivanov

(This post originally appeared on InnovationManagement.se) As the examples of successful use of crowdsourcing to address complex technical, business and social issues grow in numbers, so do the instances of failed crowdsourcing campaigns. To make crowdsourcing a widely recognized idea-generating … Continue reading →

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Does crowdsourcing need “rethinking”?

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Eugene Ivanov

  (This post originally appeared on Edge of Innovation) An article in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review describes a product development study by Reto Hofstetter, Suleiman Aryobsei and Andreas Herrmann (Journal of Product Innovation Management, forthcoming). What caught my … Continue reading →

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Are ideas plentiful and cheap?

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Eugene Ivanov

  We often hear: ideas are cheap. “Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless,” claims a 2013 article in Forbes. As a prevailing point of view has it, innovative ideas are plentiful; it’s the idea … Continue reading →

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The wisdom of crowds in a flash

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Eugene Ivanov

(This post has originally appeared on Edge of Innovation) There are two important rules of running a successful crowdsourcing campaign. First, a complex problem or a task should be divided into a set of smaller, more manageable pieces; each of them … Continue reading →

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The strength that comes from within

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Eugene Ivanov

                                  This post has originally appeared on the Cultivate Labs Blog  As crowdsourcing becomes more widely adopted as a corporate innovation tool, the spotlight … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing expertise from “generalists”

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Eugene Ivanov

Recently, I came across an interesting article—and it was its title, “Why Experts Have Killed Innovation,” that attracted my attention. The author, Joshua Krook, a doctoral candidate in law at University of Adelaide, points out to the rising specialization of … Continue reading →

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