Rewarding Idea Generation Efforts - "Trick or Treat"?
by Peter Verschuere
Being part of the CogniStreamer® Development Team, my main experience with Innovation & Idea Management topics is from a practical point of view. "How can we improve the user experience when discussing an idea?" "Is it always necessary to collect ideas starting from a challenge (or seed, or campaign...)? And how do we handle unsolicited ideas?"
Recently I focused on this one:
Should the participating crowd be rewarded for their contributions? Some say this is absolutely necessary - others state that introducing a reward system or showing a leader board discourages or impedes people. The main goal of this post is to find out what's the best way to attract as many contributors as possible to a challenge and how to make sure these contributors (and more, new people) keep coming back to help solving even more challenges.
