MindHive Academy is a series of innovation courses that teaches individuals to bring crowdsourcing into both their department, faculty, or firm and how to plan, build, and execute a crowdsourcing project.
Join the emerging leaders bringing crowdsourcing into their organisations.
Mindhive Academy will change your thinking on the mega-emergence of crowds in solving the unsolvable problems until now. To clarify, in this course you will learn to use the crowd as your innovation partner. As a result, you will develop your ability and tools to lead, innovate and harness expertise to lead in today’s digital age.
The power of the crowd
More and more companies are recognising the power of the crowd in both solving problems and in creating new products and strategies.
Proven method
De-risk the process for your firm by learning the tried-and-tested crowdsourcing methods.
Become a leader
Innovation within public service, universities and any established firm has to be championed by individuals.
Course Book:
MindHive: How Collective Intelligence Can Create Better Policy and Strategy
“Mindhive academy illustrated the concept of crowdsourcing to resolve complex policy issues and how it could be practically applied. The workshop identified the disruption of expertise and how the most knowledgeable person is not particularly in the firm, and may even be working in a different industry. Evidently, the future of policymaking is expertise outside standard government models of procurement and creating avenues for external experts and citizen co-design.
Overall with standard vertical structures of engagement not utilising global knowledge networks that are now available online. Horizontal leveraging of expertise across and beyond sectors will. Concurrently, other jurisdictions are already engaging in this model of problem definition and solution. Finding campaigns for change will be key to driving similar initiatives in the Western Australian government. A key takeaway was that getting everyone in a room. Whether online or in-person is a key aspect to engaging and resolving issues – both for idea creation and buy-in to solutions.” - Gemma Archer, Principal Project Officer at the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage.
Using The Crowd as an Innovation Partner (4 hours)
Join MindHive CEO, Bruce Muirhead in online sessions where you’ll learn the best-practice tactics accordingly to create ideas and solve problems faster and cheaper via crowdsourcing expertise.
Learn
Firstly, Understand the basics of crowdsourcing, purpose and design.
Design
Secondly, Design and build a crowdsourcing challenge.
Activate
Thirdly, Understand and activate crowd expertise.
Practice
Lastly, Optimal engagement in a week-long MindHive Challenge delivered online.
Quality Content
In essence, the course will cover Technologies of expertise, Engaging crowds, Shared Intelligence, Collaborative problem-solving, and Strategy Co-design.
Participants will be tasked to build a complete not only a MindHive Challenge but also learn the essential tips and tricks critical to crowdsourcing expertise and solving problems efficiently. Altogether, we aim to utilize MindHive’s tried and tested problem-solving methodology.
Course Overview
Guest Course Presenters will be asked to present key learning as well as lived examples of their engagement with the ideas of crowds as innovation partners and orchestrating innovation networks. Moreover, this lecture will be delivered over 60mins including presentation and Q&A where the focus is on framing the questions and challenges.
Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Explicitly develop crowdsourcing and understand the best use
- Understand the basics of crowdsourcing, purpose and design
- Design and build a crowdsourcing innovation challenge
- Better understand and activate the emerging crowd expertise
- Develop strategies for responding to disruption
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Orchestrating Innovation Networks (4 hours)
Continue with MindHive CEO, Bruce Muirhead where you’ll build on existing skills harnessing the combinations of people, skills and technology and especially scaling up and down to match product problem-solving and idea design.
Model
Create an innovation ecosystem business model
Engage
Cultivate the right people in your network
Learn
Learn to operate in a platform and ecosystem environment
Want to make the most of it?
These courses go well together, enquire about our combination package.
Innovation Course Testimonials From Past Guests
“MindHive Academy has introduced me to an innovative platform through which, creative and quality ideas can be gathered using the crowd that possess the potential to consequently change the world”. – Past Guest, Pallavi Verma, Vice Chancellor’s International Student Advisory Committee (VCISAC) at the Western Sydney University.
“Bruce, and his team at Mindhive, continue to be 5 minutes ahead of the rest of us. It was great to be able to gain a broader understanding of platform strategy and innovation networks.” – Past Guest
“The training was really informative yesterday and I will be sharing with my colleagues” Amanda Brady | Graduate Policy Officer Office for Women and Violence Prevention Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women.
“Mindhive’s workshop with Bruce Muirhead broadened my perspective on the use of crowdsourcing for collective insight undeniably. As the founder of a platform myself, Bruce helped me to ‘rethink value’ and create the environment for the ecosystem to innovate themselves. Three takeaways: ‘Abundant Thinking’. There are enough resources in the world, they’re just not equally distributed. Let the ecosystem innovate’ the author sets up the platform but the users find new applications and therein is the true innovation. Finally, be open to (or rather seek out new opportunities) for 3rd party innovation.” Leigh Hambly, Perth Project, Mapping Projects and aligning with the United Nations Development Goals
Innovation Course Testimonial- University Related Guests
The value of engaging with the outside world on specific collaboration and how that helps the ecosystem develop its full potential. I see great value in universities and research providers, in general, engaging with this approach as a way of maximising their impact. In general, we focused a lot on knowledge creation but not enough on value creation which is essential for addressing the impact aspiration for our research.” Anas Ghadouani BSc MSc PhD, Professor and Head, Aquatic Ecology and Ecosystem Studies; Programme Chair for Environmental Engineering; Editor, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences; School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, The University of Western Australia
“Thank you so much for running the ‘Using the crowd as an innovation partner’ and the ‘Orchestrating innovation networks’ workshops today. Enormously interesting and stimulating.” Matt Geneviève ARM(F), Senior Research Impact Officer, Office of Research Enterprise, The University of Western Australia
“MindHive Academy has introduced me to an innovative platform through which, creative and quality ideas can be gathered using the crowd that possess the potential to change the world. In particular, Including understanding the power of the crowd to come up with a solution for a social (or any) issue, enhancing our profile by contributing and being a part of the MindHive community (and crowdsourcing projects). Not to mention Crowdsourcing has the potential of being an innovation partner for any firm”. Pallavi Verma, Vice Chancellor’s International Student Advisory Committee (VCISAC) at the Western Sydney University
Past Innovation Course- Government Related Guests
“Overall I enjoyed the day immensely. Thanks and I look forward to continuing to be involved with MindHive henceforth.” Dr Grant Woollett, Manager, Science Policy and Evaluation Services, Department of Environment and Science
“Thanks for your session yesterday. Undoubtedly this is a space that government has a lot of potential to move into and benefit from” Gemma Archer| Principal Project Officer| Business and Corporate Services, The Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage, Western Australia
“An opportunity to better understand how crowd solutions can be used to solve everyday issues”
– Relationship Manager at an NZ Federal Department
“I certainly enjoyed the part of the day that I have attended. My key take–away revolved around the very logical and appealing idea of value creation within the ecosystem. Maximising and optimising the interaction within and between the various bubbles of knowledge/value creation within the ecosystem so that full potential is harnessed.
“Thoughtful and cutting edge. Mindhive is a potential must-have collaboration platform, for enhanced community collaboration and problem-solving undoubtedly. Three takeaways: the wisdom of crowds is an abundant resource; Mindhive as a tool to tap this resource; value-adding potential of Mindhive as a tool of 21st Century collaboration networks, but work yet to do to make the case that Mindhive indispensable.” Richard Ferrers, ANDS Data Specialist | Australian National Data Service
Thank you Bruce for the excellent session today. Our centre is also creating change ecosystems around focus areas, through a project called Impact Labs. Undeniably, it is of most relevance to MindHive. As an alumnus of the UWA Social Impact program, I would love to be able to use MindHive to contribute to issues being worked on by Impact Lab and beyond. The platform could be used in such a way, so as to bridge between other research areas and the social impact realm. Karen Wellington Program Manager, CoderDojo, Fogarty Foundation, Western Australia
Past Innovation Course Other
“We were really surprised by the quality and creativity and depth of the ideas our people created. It has unquestionably started a real culture shift and it has now given us the confidence to think about creating ideas outside our own walls.” – Robert Beerworth, Fairfax Media
“It was great getting to see what you guys are building. I think it is a wonderful idea. I really enjoyed the lunch. Overall it was nice to sit back and converse with experts who have a broad view on sociological matters. I actually spoke about it for a few days after with friends as it really did leave an impression. Conversations like that are few and far between in my field. It is something special” –
– Paul Jordan, Business Development Stretch-A-Family
”Key takeaways? Disruption of expertise – the most knowledgeable person is not necessarily in the firm, and may even be working in a different industry. Getting everyone in a room, whether online or in-person is a key aspect to engaging and resolving issues – both for idea creation and buy-in to solutions. Other jurisdictions are already engaging in this model of problem definition and solution – finding champions for change will be key to driving similar initiatives in the WA government.
The future of policymaking is expertise outside standard government models of procurement – creating avenues for external experts and citizen co-design. Similarly, standard vertical structures of engagement don’t utilise global knowledge networks that are now available online. Horizontal leveraging of expertise across and beyond sectors will enable innovative problem-solving. Likewise, the Mindhive academy illustrated how the concept of crowdsourcing to resolve complex policy issues could be practically applied.” Gemma Archer | Principal Project Officer | Business and Corporate Services