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March 20, 2008

Idea Crossing's Nyssim Lefford to present at Santa Fe Institute workshop

On March 25th, 2008, Nyssim Lefford Ph.D., Director of Research and Senior Producer will speak to a cadre of executives on

"Crowdsourcing, Crowdcasting, Competition and Creativity"

Crowdsourcing and crowdcasting are processes by which organizations 
broadly publicize a problem and offer prizes for solutions. In 
contrast to traditional outsourcing that relies on contracted 
individuals or organizations to solve problems, crowdsourcing gives 
many people an opportunity pose solutions and be rewarded for their 
ideas. Frequently, the target “crowd” represents a diverse set of 
skills and perspectives, and may be comprised of amateurs or 
professionals from disciplines seemingly unrelated to the problem 
space. These crowds generate innovation.

Founded in 2003, Idea Crossing produces idea competition experiences for companies, 
institutions and organizations that want to use crowdcasting to 
stimulate innovation, impact the discourse around a problem space, and 
identify talent. Through careful game design, we leverage competition 
to foster strategic problem solving and creative concept development. 
We produce large-scale competitions for globally recognized brands such as
American Express, Hilton, Harley-Davidson, Shell, Red Hat and others.
The idea competitions involve thousands of participants distributed across the planet.

While designing competition rules, we consider several types of 
behaviors that relate to creativity, communication, ideation, 
perception and innovation. Each competition we produce has a unique 
structure and set of constraints tailored to the outcome desired by 
the competition sponsors and the characteristics of the “crowd” they 
hope to “source”.



Decisions 2.0: Distributed Decision-making

Business Network Workshop
March 25, 2008, Washington, DC

An increasingly complex, fast moving and connected world poses new challenges for government, non-profit and commercial organizations. Organizations of all sizes are in need of a new paradigm for decision-making that reflects a more distributed, and often less hierarchical structure. For example, in the military, asymmetric warfare against terrorist threats requires a shift from traditional command and control to distributed and decentralized decisions

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February 28, 2008

Anil Rathi to speak at The Medici Summit

The Medici Summit: Where Business & Innovation Intersect

March 3-4, 2008 in Scottsdale, AZ

In his remarkable bestseller, The Medici Effect, Johansson took readers on a fascinating journey to Intersections where ideas from differing industries and cultures collide, igniting an explosion of innovations. Now, in The Medici Summit: Where Business & Innovation Intersect, Johansson and the elite cadre of speakers he has gathered will show registrants how to recognize, and more importantly, maximize the intersections in their lives and businesses to create and drive innovations.

http://www.themedicisummit.com/         

Leadership and success are, inherently, tied to innovation, which is rooted in diversity. And visionary concepts—those which will revolutionize business, society and individual lives in the future—will come from individuals open to the transforming ideas born at the intersections of disciplines and cultures encountered today. This conference will address how to develop creative environments and teams, generate ideas, understand how to implement innovative ideas, and then maintain their momentum.

         

The Medici Institute: Where Business and Innovation Intersect is an intense and invigorating two-day program designed for senior-level executives and business leaders—company owners, entrepreneurs, C-suite executives, presidents, and all those charged with their organization's new product development, R&D, innovation, creativity, or diversity programs.

November 20, 2007

UNC, Indian School of Business & London Business School win Top Honors

Charlottesville, VA- Saturday, November 17th, 2007--The University of North Carolina-Kenan Flagler, Indian School of Business and London Business School won 1st, 2nd and 3rd place respectively at Idea Crossing's 5th Annual Innovation Challenge hosted by the Darden Graduate School of Business. The competition attracted over 1200 participants from

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October 25, 2007

Finalists Announced

On behalf of our online round sponsors (Hilton Hotels, Harley-Davidson, Whirlpool, Lexmark and Shell) the Top 10 Most Innovative MBA Teams are....

Click here to view the results.

October 02, 2007

Idea Crossing featured in new book: We Are Smarter Than Me

The Innovation Challenge is featured as a case study in Chapter 2: Go from R&D to R&We
in a new book published by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

In addition, you can listen to a podcast with Anil Rathi, Founder & CEO of Idea Crossing
here: http://www.wearesmarter.org/default.aspx?tabid=1578

About the book:

WE ARE SMARTER THAN ME: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business by
Barry Libert and Jon Spector, Foreword by Wikinomics author Don Tapscott,
is the first book to show anyone in business how to profit from the wisdom of crowds.

To learn more about the book visit: http://www.wearesmarter.org/

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September 19, 2007

Winning Ideas:

Learn how to present your innovative ideas from Chic Thompson and Philippe Sommer of the Batten Institute at Darden School of Business.

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September 10, 2007

Winning Tips: how to win the Innovation Challenge

Learn how the 2006 Most Innovative MBA Team in the World, McGill University, won the Innovation Challenge.    

August 27, 2007

Innovation Challenge featured in Chicago Tribune

Idea Crossing's annual Innovation Challenge featured in the Chicago Tribune
August 26, 2007-Check out the article below discussing the growing trend of innovation competitions or what we like to call 'crowdcasting'. Click here to read more. Ruckus Nation, an idea competition we are also powering for HopeLab Foundation (this fall) is also featured.

Why is this happening? Because the collective ideas of many will always be better than those of a few.

August 14, 2007

Crowdcasting & Innovation Competitions

If you are interested in open innovation, crowdsourcing or crowdcasting next practices listen to this short podcast.

February 01, 2007

Idea Crossing in the News

In the November (2006) issue of Business 2.0 magazine, Idea Crossing's Innovation Challenge was featured on the front cover "Crowdcasting: How IBM, AMEX & GE come up with new ideas" and in the "What Works" section.
Read the article: click here

In the January (2007) issue of Continental Airlines Magazine, Idea Crossing's Kenton Williams was mentioned in an article entitled,"The Roar of the Crowd- Grow your business by tapping into the collective wisdom of online communities"
Read the article: click here

Stay tuned as we will have more news in the coming weeks!