Co-creation and crowdsourcing: the pros and cons
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 5:19 am
Co-creation and crowdsourcing both have their pros and cons. While crowdsourcing can potentially reach a huge audience, sometimes the relevance in the end results you achieve is lacking. There is less dialogue and depth than with co-creation and it often involves a specific task. With co-creation, you have less control and you have to dare to let go. In addition, it is also very time-consuming. This does not mean that one has to exclude the other: you could use both processes, which can reinforce each other.
Designing business models
The group was then allowed to split up to work on two different business models netherlands telegram data Under the guidance of Ilya Broekhuizen and Hilma van Slooten, the groups used all kinds of co-creation techniques to come up with great business models for the Belevingscentrum Amersfoort and its own The Next Cocreator community.
What struck me was how different such a process can be per group. While one group came up with ideas quickly, progress was more difficult for the other group. The importance of a process facilitator was also clear, because he or she can really shake up a group and make progress. I also noticed that our different backgrounds provided many different perspectives, which resulted in both many ideas and many discussions. And unfortunately, just when we were really getting going, the time was up and we had to pitch the business models to each other. The end result was not yet finished, but there were enough good and fresh ideas among them that the 'clients' could continue with.
Han Oei then provided the closing with a “treasure chest”. This was in response to a request from the previous meeting, to reflect on the lessons learned and to be able to take them home with me. In any case, I had enough to think about (and to work on) until the next meeting, on 21 September.
Developing new concepts
Designing business models
The group was then allowed to split up to work on two different business models netherlands telegram data Under the guidance of Ilya Broekhuizen and Hilma van Slooten, the groups used all kinds of co-creation techniques to come up with great business models for the Belevingscentrum Amersfoort and its own The Next Cocreator community.
What struck me was how different such a process can be per group. While one group came up with ideas quickly, progress was more difficult for the other group. The importance of a process facilitator was also clear, because he or she can really shake up a group and make progress. I also noticed that our different backgrounds provided many different perspectives, which resulted in both many ideas and many discussions. And unfortunately, just when we were really getting going, the time was up and we had to pitch the business models to each other. The end result was not yet finished, but there were enough good and fresh ideas among them that the 'clients' could continue with.
Han Oei then provided the closing with a “treasure chest”. This was in response to a request from the previous meeting, to reflect on the lessons learned and to be able to take them home with me. In any case, I had enough to think about (and to work on) until the next meeting, on 21 September.
Developing new concepts