Crowd Innovation: Hype or Help?

Crowd-Innovation: The Philosopher´s Stone, a Silver Bullet, or Pandora’s Box?

Solutions to some of the most challenging problems have always come from people that are neither specialists nor experts in the focal field.

How to Manage Crowdsourcing Platforms Effectively

Crowdsourced tasks are very diverse – and so are platform types. They fall into four categories, each demanding different governance …

Strategies for Leveraging Crowds

Crowds can be very effective, but that is not always the case. To actually render the usage of crowds effective, several factors need to …

How to Prevent Crowdsourcing Disasters and Leverage Positive Side Effects of Open Innovation

The gains from crowdsourcing can be high, but so can the risks. Contests may become a nightmare for the sponsoring …

Open Strategy: The Inclusion of Crowds in Making Strategies

While innovation contests have become very popular, the inclusion of crowds in the strategy process is less common.

Motivating Crowds to Do Good: How to Build Crowdsourcing Platforms for Social Innovation

Social innovations, just as any other form of innovation, can benefit from crowd engagement. However, the enthusiasm for crowdsourcing …

Crowdsourcing at NASA: About the Work Behind Having Others Do the Work

NASA’s record of innovations is truly awesome. Every child knows about the first man on the moon and the space shuttle program, or marvels …

Case Study “Crowdsourcing@Rivella”: In Search of New Flavors

The development of new beverage concepts in close cooperation with consumers via crowdsourcing was a great success for Rivella AG overall, …