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Developing Innovative Solutions Through Internal Crowdsourcing

May 31, 2017 | Arvind Malhotra, Ann Majchrzak , Lale Kesebi, Sean Looram | Workplace, Teams, & Culture

Internal crowdsourcing, which seeks to channel the ideas and expertise of the company’s own employees, allows employees to interact dynamically with coworkers in other locations, propose new ideas, and suggest new directions to management. Because many large companies have pockets of expertise and knowledge scattered across different locations, harnessing the cognitive diversity within organizations can open up rich new sources of innovation.

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