Entrepreneurship starts with great ideas. The more the brains more ideas will come up. Therefore, crowd sourcing is the best methd to generate ideas. But having generated a large number of ideas, systematic evaluation and selection is an intensive process. Several tools and platforms are now available to entrepreneurs. Following is a list of few such resources for entrepreneurs.
IdeaScale is a platform to crowdsource ideas from customers, employees or any other community. Te platform provides complete idea life cycle functinality to capture ideas, share, nurture, evaluate, select etc.
eYeka, is a platform to create competitions for creative writing, Animation, Illustration, Photography, Label and Package design, Script Writing, Graphic Design, Video etc. The website provides the introduction "As the leading crowdsourcing platform, we help our creative community to improve on its creative skills, work with the biggest global brands and their agencies, and get rewarded for creating high quality content and ideas."
Spigit: SpigitEngage is the only platform that provides the capabilities to Innovate at Scale. Surface the best ideas that your employees, partners, and customers have to offer, and quickly turn them into results. Drive the crowd participation and engagement that sustains enterprise-grade innovation programs. More than collaborative. More than Social. More than ideas. SpigitEngage is innovation made intelligent.
InnoCentive: "We crowdsource innovation solutions from the world’s smartest people, who compete to provide ideas and solutions to important business, social, policy, scientific, and technical challenges."SolutionXchange SolutionXchange is a platform where industry experts help generate solutions to business challenges posted by Genpact employees and clients. Created in the spirit of "Open Innovation", this platform benefits all participants. Genpact and its clients post business challenges on the SolutionXchange website and offer registered experts significant financial rewards for submitting the most innovative solution. The solutions submitted by experts are evaluated by Genpact internal experts and in some cases by client representatives who have posted the challenge. Solutions are kept completely confidential and the IP transfer process is managed by Genpact ,
Crowdtap, the Leading Social Influence Marketing Platform (SaaS), makes it easy for marketers to influence the conversation around their brand by inspiring a crowd of consumers to create quality content, drive unmatched social activity and provide real-time insights.
Brightidea Brightidea's product offerings include WebStorm, Switchboard, and Pipeline – a complete product suite that covers the entire idea lifecycle from initial collection through execution..
Ranade Sir, this is great info at one place. So far, just heard of crowd sourcing, but you have provided resources available. Thank you very much. Have you seen or used any of these resources? For a person like me who is willing to provide solutions in crowdsourcing mode, do you suggest any specific one of the above?
ReplyDeleteAlthough all these services are to facilitate ideation process, these solutions have different focus.
ReplyDeleteeYeka or InniCentive help you create competitions for procurement of Creative work like branding, advertising content, packaging design etc. If you enjoy participation in suh competitions then this is for you. Do not look at these competitions for a dependable source of business revenue.
Ideascale, Brightidea or Spigit manage the full idea life cycle. Very well suited for established large corporations to systematically capture all product development ideas from employees, customers, vendors and other communities.Will start ups find this very useful? May be!
Crowdtap generates interest among large web community to engage in some form or other to make internet marketing more effective. Crowdtap is not really to develop new start up ideas.
SolutionExchange is an interesting service, primariy created to get business for Genpact, which provides professional services for identifying business ideas and connect others to make it a viable business out of the raw idea.
If however you are exploring a service which provide you regular outsoucing business then Elance or Freelancer is best place.