Fellowforce: open innovation & problem solving

Last Friday Fellowforce.com was launched, a platform for open innovation and problem solving. Their crowdsourcing business model is simple and promising. In the same easy way as posting a vacancy, organizations can post their innovation challenges and problems.

This is how it works:

1. Organizations post challenges.
2. Fellows reinvent, innovate and solve.
3. Organizations select the best Pitch.
4. Fellows receive their reward, the organization gets the pitch rights.

They already offer various challenges with interesting rewards. Some examples:

• SKOEPS needs a database of 45,000 new citizen reporters to ensure a continuous flow of photo and video news items. Send us your innovative idea how to build up a community for this unique concept. USD 250 for the best three ideas.
• Vision on a working day in 2050: Improve and expand the vision of futureworkforum which will enable them to prepare organizations better for their future. The winner gets EUR 500, 2 runners up each EUR 250.

An excellent opportunity for business leaders and entrepreneurs to crowdsource solutions and innovative ideas from outside their organizations.