Jessica Day, Author at Disruptor League

How do you know when crowdsourcing is a good tool for you and your team to solve problems?

In large organizations, it is possible for great ideas to come from anywhere and maximize the number of ideas that a development team investigates. But where are you getting your ideas?

In a study of ideas â€œonly 3 percent of the people come up with their best ideas at workâ€ (which is, of course, when many of us need them most). We looked into some of the most unlikely places where great thoughts emerge and you might be surprised what we found.

MNC face an additional challenge to ideation: communication across language barriers. Here are three strategies to consider when facing this reality.

The value in citizen engagement isn’t always about gathering new ideas or novel suggestions, sometimes it also helps to validate and speed ideas that are already in the works.

When it comes to implementing ideas from an innovation community â€“ it is important to take those ideas and ask some probing questions to get to the heart of that ideaâ€™s value proposition.

Leaders can inspire innovation by tutoring their community administrators, moderators, even the community members themselves in how to best communicate with one another.

While, some communities have not even launched their first government crowdsourcing initiative, the Finnish government and its citizens have a lot to teach us. Theyâ€™ve been at the forefront of digital citizen engagement and itâ€™s helping them out a great deal: in improving their policies, in learning more about the public, and in changing public sentiment about the government.