top 5 crowdsourcing tools for business
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“Make your next idea the best idea.”
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www.ideascale.com TOP FEATURES
“Ideascale is an innovation
management platform that
uses crowdsourcing to help
you find and develop the
next best thing.”
• Largest cloud-based innovation
software platform in the world.
• Free for basic use and cost effective
for more complicated challenges and
campaigns.
• Ideascale technical teams customize
and design your platform.
• Multiple layers of security and user
authentication.
• 30 day refund guarantee.
• Social media and SharePoint
integration.
• Transparent public dashboard of
number of users, submissions, ranks,
votes and average votes.
• Sophisticated idea assessment and
automated analytic tools that
facilitate the decision making process.
Best platform for organizations interested in a scalable tool
with an idea review powerhouse and have the ability to
implement a solution in-house.
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www.thevisionlab.com
“VISIONLAB is the crowdsourcing
platform for businesses. The
knowledge to solve critical
challenges lies hidden within your
organization.”
• Light weight user interface with a design
that is the “Apple” of crowdsourcing tools.
• Extensive back-end analytics, data
modeling and business intelligence.
• Free to start a project and share within
social media networks.
• Unique and advanced voting algorithm.
• Quick and easy to deploy for urgent
business needs.
• Technology is business focused, but
maturing and expanding into new markets.
• Transparent public dashboard of number
of users, submissions, ranks, votes and
average votes.
• Clock countdown for when a project
closes.
TOP FEATURES
Best platform for organizations interested in eliminating surveys with a need
for rapid deployment, an effortless design and a light touch.
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http://www.innocentive.com/
• Incentivizes the crowd through monetary
awards and recognition.
• Existing crowdsource community includes
scientists, researchers, policy analysts, and
industry experts and leaders.
• Offers SaaS-based enterprise innovation
management software.
• Promotes Premium and Custom
Challenges: ideation, theoretical
implementation, Reduction to Practice, big
data or computational challenges, Novel
Molecule Challenge, and Electronic
Request for Proposal.
• Fosters teamwork by connecting solvers
with share interests and houses challenge
pavilions on “big-picture” or global issues.
TOP FEATURES
“InnoCentive crowdsources
problems to diverse and creative
people who compete to provide
fresh ideas and solutions to difficult
problems and challenges.”
Best platform for organizations that have “big picture” challenges and can
offer monetary prizes for market research, R&D proposals and actionable
solutions.
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iDEA WONKs LLC
http://www.7billionideas.com/ TOP FEATURES
“7 billion ideas exists to connect the 7
billion people on this planet with their
own ideas, whether they are students,
employees or entrepreneurs. Alongside
this, we also have 7billeducation and
7billcorporate. Each of these businesses
provides different type of services aiming
to connect students and employees with
their own ideas.”
• Robust public ideation platform
across the categories of lifestyle, tech,
sport, culture, fashion, politics,
food/drink, fun and entertainment.
• 7billcorporate uses the iSeven
ideation platforms and training
services.
• 7billcorporate iSeven platform has an
internal employee option and
external client option.
• No license cost model.
• 7billcorporate iSeven training for the
corporate ideation process.
• 7billeducation runs competitions for
school bodies aimed at inspiring
students to think big about their ideas.
Best platform for organizations looking for an internal business or customer-
facing interaction tool.
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iDEA WONKs LLC
http://crowdicity.com/en/ TOP FEATURES
“Crowdicity is the easier way to
harness the ideas and insights of
your employees, partners, customers
or anyone whose experience can
help your organization do
things better.”
• Co-Innovation service builds expert
networks of internal and external
innovators and Scale from teams of 100s
to global businesses of 1000s.
• Open Innovation service lets you run
inducement prize challenges,
competitions and jury based and open
evaluation of submissions.
• Market Research service turns insights
quickly into co-created concepts and
crowdsource the opinions of consumers.
• HR service lets you improve and develop
two-way communication at all levels of
the organization.
• Change management service gives
employees the means to take an active
role in the change process.
Best platform for organizations looking for full service engagement tool for
idea management.
Tool Public
Engagement
Employee
Engagement
Cost* Platform
Customization
Training
Programs
Campaign
Awareness/
Promotion
Services
Campaign
Awareness/
Promotion Partners
ideascale $$
Vision Lab $
InnoCentive $$$
7billionideas $$
Crowdicity $$$
Now let’s compare….
*estimates found on public websites or interviews. $= 2,000< $$=5,000< $$$= 10,000>
iDEA WONKs Can Help YOU
Leverage the Power of the Crowd: Crowdsourcing strategy: Not all tools are created equally. Often organizations choose a tool
based on the features and the sales pitch only to find out later they didn’t need them, overpaid or their community requires a simpler approach. We help you select the best platform that fits your corporate culture, strategy, challenge and the requirements of your teams implementing great ideas.
Awareness and Engagement: Crowdsourcing is great in theory but not always in practice when the crowd is invisible. We target and create practical public or employee outreach campaigns with the right tools and tactics your communities care about.
Virtual Leadership and Expert Roundtable Events: Sometimes the crowd is burned out or the same ideas are on repeat! We help build and sustain critical mass engagement by integrating virtual leadership and expert roundtables that re-energize crowd participation and refresh the ideation process.
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