Leveraging the Wisdom of Crowds: Designing an IT-supported IdeasCompetition for an ERP Software Company

“Crowdsourcing” is currently one of themost discussed key words within the openinnovation community. The major question forboth research and business is how to find andlever the enormous potential of the “collectivebrain”. This research in progress paper providesan approach for finding and leveraginginnovations for an ERP Software companyamong its user base. This is done by designingan IT-supported ideas competition within theSAP UCC (University Competence Center) UserGroup to use the potentials of the collectiveintelligence of this crowd. The German SAPUCC User Group consists of about 60,000people (lecturers and students) using SAPSoftware for educational purposes.[...]

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Ebner, Winfried ; Leimeister, Jan Marco ; Bretschneider, Ulrich ; Krcmar, Helmut
Institutions:	Universität <Kassel> / Fachgebiet Wirtschaftsinformatik
Subject:	Wissensmanagement \| Wettbewerb \| market microstructure \| CASE \| Idee \| idea

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1. Introduction
1.1 Potential of Wisdom of Crowds andOpen Innovation
1.2 Structure of the paper
1.3 Project Background
2 Theoretical Background
2.1 Innovations and Communities
2.2 Ideas Competition
3 The Concept of the IdeasCompetition
3.1 Analysing Phase: Motivation andinterests of Stakeholders
3.2 Planning Phase: A Concept of anintegrated ideas competition
4 The Implementation of the IdeasCompetition
5 Conclusions and Outlook
5.1 Conclusions
5.2 Outlook
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