OUR PROCESS

Idea Crossing believes that crowds hold the key to unlocking a new realm of groundbreaking ideas. Yet for any organization, sucsessfully tapping into the right crowd is a substantial undertaking. Our proven process fuses ideation and gaming to produce powerful experiences and real results through carefully crafted idea competitions.

Idea Crossing’s DESIGN, PRODUCE, PLAY process streamlines the complexities of innovation competitions, giving corporations, foundations, and academic institutions a means of controlling creative chaos. A challenge question is cast out to precisely the right minds inside or outside an organization¹s walls; fresh concepts are then gathered and evaluated. Meanwhile, executives have the flexibility and creative control to customize their own competition experience.

We guide our clients through every customization, decision and consideration before pressing “play”.

DESIGN

Contest infrastructure

PRODUCE

Customized Competition

PLAY

Facilitate Participation

Develop event timeline

Identify judging criteria

Determine judging phases

Create a registration process

Frame your Challenge

Configure system

Load custom content

Time competition phases

Create administrative tools

Compile a Challenge Brief

Customize scorecard

Enable your commuity

Open Registration

Release Challenge Questions

Judge Submissions

Find Innovative Solutions

Recruit New Talent

“Idea Crossing has been an excellent partner to work with and knows more about conducting innovation competitions than anyone else in the world.”

-Tom Rabon, EVP-Corporate Affairs

Red Hat, Inc.

News

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...
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...