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Crowdsourcing Clothing Choices

Crowdsourcing Clothing Choices

Mar-31-14 By IdeaConnection
Maybe this has happened to you. Scanning online shopping sites, you come across the perfect outfit or item of clothing, order it and eagerly await its arrival. When the package turns up you find the dress, jersey, shirt or suit either too large, too tight or too small.

You had filled in your details correctly, but with some brands offering dozens of different sizes, and the colossal variation of body sizes/types, it’s rarely easy to find the perfect fit.

However, crowdsourcing may be coming to the rescue with an ingenious use of the practice. Currently in private beta is a service called Fitbay that is aiming to only show users items that will fit their unique body type.
Launch of New Drug Discovery Open Innovation Platform

Launch of New Drug Discovery Open Innovation Platform

Mar-27-14 By IdeaConnection
One of the world’s most prominent pharmaceutical companies, AstraZeneca plc has launched a new open innovation platform that it says will make it easier for scientists all over the world to access the organisation’s OI projects.

With goals of new drugs, faster development times and lower costs, the pharmaceutical industry is keenly embracing open innovation. The pipeline has to be continually replenished so R&D output needs to be ramped up, something that many companies feel they now cannot do on their own.
Open Innovation and Breakthrough Ideas and Products

Open Innovation and Breakthrough Ideas and Products

Mar-23-14 By IdeaConnection
Open innovation can be a gateway to breakthrough products and ideas for companies no matter their size or industry. From novel food products and clean energy solutions to new laundry goods and crowdsourced cars, the roster of open innovation success stories is long.

The solutions, companies and industries may well be different, but what unites them is a willingness to engage diverse knowledge sources, and a steadfast refusal to be stuck in a rut with a ‘not invented here’ mindset.

Here’s a small collection of some of the open innovation success stories we have featured on ideaConnection:
New Study Gives Crowdsourced Research the Thumbs Up

New Study Gives Crowdsourced Research the Thumbs Up

Mar-17-14 By IdeaConnection
Crowdsourcing is an effective tool for planetary science says a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. The research concluded that members of the public are just as effective at spotting lunar craters as people with 5 to 50 years’ experience.
Crowdsourcing the Search for Missing Malaysian Flight

Crowdsourcing the Search for Missing Malaysian Flight

Mar-11-14 By IdeaConnection
It's been three days since flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went missing.  No fewer than 40 ships and 34 aircraft are taking part in the search. With hundreds of square miles to cover it is an enormous task, one that the crowd can now assist with.

DigitalGlobe is asking members of the public to scan and tag images of more than 1,200 square miles of ocean for any evidence that could help locate the missing plane.
Innovation Lessons from the World’s Most Innovative Companies

Innovation Lessons from the World’s Most Innovative Companies

Mar-05-14 By IdeaConnection
The March edition of the Fast Company magazine has published its report on the World's Most Innovative Companies, drawing up a list of the 50 most innovative companies on the planet. Researchers spent six months collecting and analyzing the data.

Leading the way is Google, followed by Bloomberg then consumer electronics company Xiamoi in third place. In studying the data, the magazine’s Editor in Chief Robert Safian has drawn out 12 rising trends that help to create a culture of innovation.  Many provide a useful road map to guide companies wanting to innovate. They 12 trends are:
A Front Row Seat on Innovation with IdeaConnection’s Facilitators

A Front Row Seat on Innovation with IdeaConnection’s Facilitators

Feb-28-14 By IdeaConnection
IdeaConnection’s challenge teams work for short and intense periods to deliver groundbreaking solutions to clients.

Helping them to achieve their creative and problem-solving goals is a team of world-class facilitators.

Periodically, we publish interviews with our most successful facilitators who talk about how they help to drive innovation forward. Here’s a short selection of some of their choicest quotes, with links to the full interviews:
How Companies Can Use Social Media for Innovation

How Companies Can Use Social Media for Innovation

Feb-27-14 By IdeaConnection
With its vast tentacles stretching right across the globe, social media has become a valuable tool for companies to spread the word about their products and services.

Smart consumer-facing organizations also establish their authority and credibility by supplying their social audiences with lots of free, valuable content.

But social media can also play another prominent role in business, and that’s innovation.
Global Conference on Crowdsourcing

Global Conference on Crowdsourcing

Feb-24-14 By IdeaConnection
Wondering how your business can maximize the potential of the crowd? Need to know the right approaches and tools to engage external knowledge sources? This coming April, Singapore will host a Crowdsourcing Week that aims to provide answers to questions such as these and a whole lot more.

This massive global conference is an exploration of the contributions made to business by crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and the collaborative economy.
Crowdsourcing Help for When Words Don’t Come Easy

Crowdsourcing Help for When Words Don’t Come Easy

Feb-22-14 By IdeaConnection
Whether out on a first date, in a business meeting or attending an otherwise important occasion, many of us have been stuck for words at some point. It’s those agonizing moments where the brain is working overtime, but still the sentences don't come. Often you wish the ground would swallow you up or that there was some kind of help at hand.

Fear not, as there is a new crowdsourcing app called Crowdpilot that's designed to get people out of these sticky situations.

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