Funneling Innovation

The focus here is on business, but why not government? "By using communities, businesses can look beyond their four walls to access a global talent pool ... Communities allow businesses to accelerate and scale innovation by widening the funnel of what they can evaluate, by filling in missing skills and talent, and flattening the distance between the idea and successful execution... [Crowdsourcing] marketplaces ... take your question or initiative and put it out to a community to work on.... [these] companies provided content, knowledge, experience and insight -- through a platform -- to allow for expression and co-creation. By providing these platforms for engagement, organizations can create more value for themselves and their constituents ... accelerate product and service development, and create new channels to engage with their customer communities." - 2014 -- The Year Innovation Finally Funnels into Your Business ? | Narinder Singh, Huffpo