Tag Archives: Crowdsourcing

The End of the Crowd? (Why AI Won’t Fully Replace Human Crowdsourcing — Yet)

Posted on May 12, 2025 by Eugene Ivanov

AI has already claimed its seat at the innovation table — and it didn’t even knock. It barged in, armed with large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, reshaping how companies ideate, prototype, and solve problems.  With astonishing speed and minimal … Continue reading →

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In silico Ideation: How Large Language Models (LLMs) Help Generate New Ideas

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Eugene Ivanov

As with every emerging general-purpose technology, Generative AI (GenAI) is searching for problems to solve. Finding the most fitting will take time. I consider it pointless to look for the things that GenAI can’t do; instead, I prefer focusing on … Continue reading →

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Four Barriers to Adopting Open Innovation (and How to Overcome Them)

Posted on October 24, 2024 by Eugene Ivanov

This image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer A friend of mine, an innovation consultant, likes to joke: “Innovation is simple…but not easy.” The same can be said about open innovation too. Prof. Henry Chesbrough, who introduced the concept of … Continue reading →

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The Strength from Within

Posted on December 27, 2023 by Eugene Ivanov

     This image was created with the help of Microsoft Design Thick dark clouds keep gathering over the concept of remote work. A 2021 article published in the journal of Nature Human Behavior took a look at what happened at Microsoft when the company had … Continue reading →

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How to Win a War

Posted on October 21, 2023 by Eugene Ivanov

The image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer This piece has been originally posted to Medium. What do you need to win a war? A few things. First, an army equipped with modern weapons and instilled with high … Continue reading →

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Being an Expert: Traveling the Same Road Again and Again

Posted on October 21, 2023 by Eugene Ivanov

This image was created by Tatiana Ivanov There are two major reasons for the slow adoption of crowdsourcing as a practical problem-solving tool. The first is a widespread, often completely paralyzing uncertainty over which problem crowdsourcing can (or can’t) solve. … Continue reading →

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12 Thoughts About Crowdsourcing

Posted on October 21, 2023 by Eugene Ivanov

The image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer This piece has originally been posted on Medium. The following are twelve thoughts about crowdsourcing taken from my recently published book “We the People of the Crowd…” and summarizing my … Continue reading →

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3 Ways to Boost Innovation through Diversity

Posted on December 4, 2021 by Eugene Ivanov

Have you ever heard about Employment Nondiscrimination Acts (ENDAs)? I suppose not. An obscure and boring subject. And yet, you might be surprised to learn that ENDAs, the U.S. state-level laws that prohibit discrimination based on sexual and gender identities, … Continue reading →

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A map of open innovation tools

Posted on November 7, 2021 by Eugene Ivanov

Open Innovation (OI) has made tremendous progress, both in theory and practice, since its major principles were articulated by Henry Chesbrough in a seminal 2003 book. Today, much better than in 2003, we understand OI’s value proposition, its governance and … Continue reading →

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The questions we ask

Posted on October 13, 2021 by Eugene Ivanov

In my previous post, I argued that the proper definition of a problem is the most important part of any innovation initiative, in particular, crowdsourcing campaign. Inspired by the Pareto Principle, I call it the 80:20 rule of crowdsourcing: 80% … Continue reading →

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