Can a Big Company Innovate Like a Startup?
Innovation is not always big and splashy, like a hoverboard or a taco-delivering drone. Innovations can be small improvements to processes or products, which — when done consistently — can result in...
View ArticleA Speedboat, Not a Titanic: Crowdsourcing with CrowdReason
Historically, we’ve always been skeptical of the unknown — a faceless phone operator, buying pants online without trying them on first in the store… For some organizations, this apprehension extends...
View ArticleGE’s Latest Open Innovation Challenges Are Both Marketing and Technology Genius
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A Fortune 10, leading global enterprise, wanted to make a splash with a new initiative, focusing heavily on the convergence of software into our physical, industrial...
View ArticleCompetitive Crowdsourcing — When You Need It and When You Don’t
As much as we at Appirio like to crank the Rocky IV soundtrack and let the competition begin, the truth is, not all crowdsourcing platforms use competition. And that’s okay — some don’t need to use a...
View ArticleHow Crowdsourcing Took Otis Elevators to the Top
For over 150 years, Otis Elevator Company has helped people reach the peak of some of our most celebrated structures — the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building, and even Disney’s Twilight Zone...
View ArticleA Better UI Design, Courtesy of the Global Crowd
We’ve moved into a digital, mobile-first age, in which the companies with the most agile, social approach to both Worker and Customer Experience reign supreme. Mobius Ltd. provides this kind of...
View ArticleWhat are the Hottest Technologies in Crowdsourcing?
Crowdsourcing is a hot topic in the enterprise economy these days, but exactly what are the most popular technologies in the ecosystem? Here is Appirio’s first semi-annual report on the “state of the...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing 101: What Do You Know about Crowdsourcing?
Crowdsourcing may have only become popular over the last few years, but the practice has been around for centuries — as early as the Longitude Prize of 1714; the British government held a contest to...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing 101: How to Plan Your App Development Project
Customers, vendors, and employees alike expect to engage with your organization via their mobile device. This demand for digital interaction has companies of all sizes feeling the pressure to create...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Humanity: HPE and the Living Progress Challenge
Last month’s Discover 2015, Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) showcase technology event, was a game-changer; the Living Progress Challenge was announced — a crowdsourcing challenge with the potential...
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