As a researcher and enthusiast of Open Innovation and all it’s related facets, I’m always interested in seeing how new companies or industries are taking to crowd-sourcing (harnessing the wisdom of the crowds).
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve come across a number of interesting movements in this paradigm…
In Politics:
This is not a new thing, [...]
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More industries and companies using Crowdsourcing…
Crowdfunding, SocialNetworking…and Journalism..
I read a pretty cool article on MediaShift and NextBlog about a couple of projects to help journalists survive in the current downturn…
Two of the projects are based around to crowdfunding, which is based around harnessing online communities to gather small donations to fund projects, charities, or even presidential campaigns (as Obama did so well). [...]
Crowd-sourcing by Intel, Asus and Sony Ericsson…
The other day I wrote about Kellogg applying open innovation tactics to harness the wisdom of crowds for new ideas, or as Kellogg put it… some Grrreat Ideas.
It appears that more household names and electronic firms are looking at crowd sourcing as open and user innovation models to harness and generate ideas for new products [...]
Kellogg turns to Open Innovation..
Kellogg has set up a micro-site that encourage’s users to share ideas and innovative products with Kellogg… some will get rewarded, others won’t… presumably based on whether Kellogg thinks its a good idea/innovation or not.
I’m a keen observer of the Open Innovation trend (coined by Eric Von Hippel), in fact it’s my main field of [...]
We Think… therefore We Are
As part of my PhD research into Open Innovation, I’m always interested in anything that covers collaboration, collaborative creativity and crowd-sourcing. This simple clip was commissioned by Charles Leadbeater, the author of We-Think.
At a recent picnic conference, Charles raised 5 points to ’stimulate creativity through growth’:
Diversity is king, participants need to think differently and have [...]
