Harnessing Crowdsourcing for Innovation and Success
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Crowdsourcing. More than just a buzzword.
It is an extremely useful method for sharing knowledge within a community. You can think of it as an open call for collaboration on tasks, information, or data collection—usually with the help of new media.
Often, an engaged and well-informed group is much more effective at generating ideas and finding solutions than a single person, a company, or a closed community.
This is how crowdsourcing works:
1) You identify and define a problem or a need.
2) You publish this need online and call for solutions.
3) An online community responds to the call and collectively contributes solution proposals.
4) You use the community's suggestions to choose a solution for your problem and reward the people who developed each proposal.
5) In the end, you have solved your problem, and the engaged community enjoys the positive recognition of having helped someone. Everyone benefits.
Crowdsourcing demonstrates the incredible power of openly engaging a wide community to solve problems and generate innovation. This collaborative model, which leverages collective intelligence, is highly effective and mutually beneficial. For companies, adopting this mindset—seeking input and valuing contributions from a broad base—is crucial for internal success. IceHrm promotes this internal "crowdsourcing" philosophy by providing the tools for decentralized feedback and collective idea generation. Features within IceHrm's Performance Management and Survey modules allow leaders to formally and informally solicit input, ideas, and solutions from the entire workforce. By using IceHrm to systematically define needs, collect suggestions, and recognize contributors, organizations can replicate the crowdsourcing cycle internally, boosting engagement and ensuring that the best ideas, regardless of where they originate, are captured and utilized for business improvement.
