TaskRabbit is your new handyman, mover, grocery shopper, and more. Using open innovation, or “crowdsourcing,” TaskRabbit connects demand for and supply of contractual labor.
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Power to the People: How the City of Boston is driving civic innovation through crowdsourcing
The public can help fill gaps in government capacity and drive newfound productivity – but only if the city has the means to turn data into action.
Chariot: Changing Transit through Crowdsourced Co-Creation
Chariot offers an innovative, yet simple solution to designing city commutes: asking their riders where they want to go.
NYC BigApps: Crowdsourcing Civic Innovation
In 2009, New York City launched the BigApps competition, inviting citizen-hackers to work together to create applications that improve the lives of New Yorkers. BigApps spurred a grass-roots movement for an Open Data law and served as a fecund source of ideas for the Mayor’s office. The City of New York should increasingly use design thinking processes for application development. In addition, BigApps should challenge citizen-hackers to produce solutions to diverse problems, beyond the quotidian experience of software developers.
Sherwin-Williams: A Case Study of Open Innovation
One might not expect a 152-year-old paint company to have an intense focus on open innovation. But Sherwin-Williams, the largest global producer of coatings (i.e. paint products), is doing just that.
“Brewing a Better World” with Open Innovation: Heineken’s Innovators Brewhouse
Heineken engages in co-creation with its global consumers as a core part of its innovation strategy.
Chez Glossier: How the Millennial Beauty Brand Built a Community Prime for Collaborative Innovation
On a mission to democratize beauty, cult makeup and skincare brand Glossier leverages their Into The Gloss blog, social media pages, and Glossier.com platforms to crowdsource product ideas from a community of highly loyal beauty lovers – yet maintains the final say.
Crowd-sourcing the Secret of Life: 23andMe and Open Innovation
How direct-to-consumer genotype company 23andMe uses open innovation to drive genetic research
Disruption in the automotive business: how distributed innovation can change a 100-year-old industry?
Local Motors Inc. is using open innovation to efficiently change the product development process of a typical car manufacturing company, quickly delivering low-cost and creative designs to customers.
StoryCorps: Crowdsourcing to Preserve Humanity’s Stories
StoryCorps drives product and content generation through physical and digital crowdsourcing of human stories