Manufacturing Crowd-Sourcing and Cloud PLM Opportunity
document Distributed KnowledgeThe power of community is fascinating. It can impact many aspects of software development.
Samuel BennettDec 06, 2011 05:40 am GMT716 views
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The power of community is fascinating. It can impact many aspects of software development.
A few weeks ago, Cody Wilson, a law student at the University of Texas, launched a campaign on IndieGoGo to crowdfund a 3D printed weapon. Despite its reputation for being open-minded when it comes to allowing projects onto its platform, IndieGoGo decided to pull the campaign shortly after it launched.
In the last few days, two of the leading global media outlets, The New York Times and The Economist, had quite extensive articles on user innovation, customization, and co-creation.
On February 10, 2011, on page C1 of the New York edition of The New York Times, Patricia Cohen writes about "Innovation Far Removed From the Lab",
The article is a great praise and acknowledgment of the work done by Eric von Hippel.
The FANG program will apply META, iFAB, and vehicleforge.mil capabilities to a series of design challenges of increasing complexity, seeking to leverage fab-less design, foundry-style...
Dugan also explained DARPA’s recent initiatives to “Democratize Design,” crowd-sourcing development plans for equipment to harness the “amplifying power" of innovation and competitiveness. A...
An exciting project that may have long-term effects on the crowdsourcing industry recently completed its fundraising on Kickstarter. The Bukobot, created by Diego Porqueras, aims to make 3D printers affordable, the most basic model costing only $599.
Shapeways announced today that it raised $6.2 million from Lux Capital, a New York venture capital firm. The company helps people create objects using 3D printing technology. It has printed over one million products in a number of different materials, ranging from “Elasto Plastic” to sterling silver.
We finish our conversation with Bill Drislane of Dragon Innovation to find out how his company helps entrepreneurs manufacture their crowdfunded widgets.
Finding the best route to the office, home or the airport was once the responsibility of fixed GPS devices, but fortunately for Smartphone owners, that’s no longer the case. The fact of the matter is GPS manufacturers have utilized the power of the crowd to refine their traffic data for years now, but some companies and start-ups are simply outmatching these partially crowdsourced-methods and therefore they are on their way to replacing the traditional manufacturers that are heavily invested in last-generation devices.
When you hold the lofty position of being the number one manufacturer of both mobile phone handsets and smartphones with a 13 and 17 point lead respectively in market share, you might think “why change a winning formula”; however for Nokia, innovation is the DNA not just part of it! Nokia maintains a healthy lead in the rankings charts for 2010 as reported by both IDC and Strategy Analytics however with Samsung’s annual sales growth trumping Nokia’s by a factor of over four times, Nokia’s number one position is threatened unless it can improve its annual sales growth figures.
One recent attempt to do this was to make an open call for innovation, inviting, for the first time, the crowd to create a new version of its iconic ringtone, which has been its trademark since 1994.
In partnership, Nokia selected the small Finnish startup, AudioDraft which was founded in July 2010. AudioDraft specializes in contest based challenges that crowdsource music and sound design. The contest attracted thousands of talented sound designers and music producers from all over the world, with Nokia paying $ 10,000 for the winner. The new ringtone will be available on some 100 million devices and will be heard over 1 billion times a day.
Last year LG Electronics, the world's second-largest manufacturer of television sets and one of the world’s largest electronic conglomerates, known for its use of top Korean music and film stars and its stunning TV spots, launched its first open communication forum called the Life's Good lab. Its aim was to intensify the interaction between the company and their consumers in Brazil and Latin America as a whole and to also infuse the company with fresh ideas. The initiative was a success building a community of over 118,000 fans on its Facebook Page who generated more than 15,000 ideas. This initial success provided the backdrop for LG Electronics to explore further ways of using crowdsourcing and social media to engage its audience. This year, LGE have chosen to use their social media outreach to promote Korean culture by using their Facebook fan Page to launch a video contest
LG has been using Facebook as a platform to connect with its audience while, at the same time, collect new ideas. The next step, according to the company, is to keep in touch with the fans of LG and to create a place where they can express and post not only their ideas but expressions about the brand.
To explain better what this strategy means for the company I talked to Paulo Santamaria, responsible for Regional Digital Marketing at LG. Santamaria said that the objective of the strategy is to revitalize the LG brand and to improve customer preference. He wishes to emphasize LG’s brand image as young, passionate and energetic. “Our target demographic are the younger generation, fans of good music, the generation that is really attached to technology, growing up in the new social media culture”.
Let's start with money. Lots of people are pretty confused about money; some think it is "the root of all evil," others are obsessed with it. The reality is that money itself is simply a human invention designed to facilitate the exchange of energy between people.
I want some help from someone else, so I offer to pay them some money in exchange for their energy. In turn, I was paid that money in exchange for my energy. When I buy something from a shop, some of the money pays for the energy of the shopkeeper, some for the supplier, some for the manufacturer and so on.
Where it all goes wrong for money, and for people, is when the same money we use for exchanging energy is also used for gambling or control.
According to the report, an interesting addition to iOS 6 will be Apple''s mapping app, the company plans to dispense with Google Maps. The data was collected last year, when Apple...
Mobile scanner manufacturer Couragent Inc. is launching the nation's first equity crowdfunding solicitation for consumer investors, using the Small Company Offering Registration (SCOR)...
3D Systems, a 3D printing company, announced on Tuesday it is suing Formlabs, a rival, for patent infringement. As Formlabs had raised funds for its Form 1 printer on Kickstarter, 3D System is also bringing the allegations against the crowdfunding site.
We take a look at an infographic on the future of industry and consider how crowdsourcing and crowdfunding can mesh with emerging trends.
As the web industry continues to gain momentum in Indonesia, there are hundreds of newly established IT startups that are leveraging the web to deliver their products and services. Some have been very successful and have become highly profitable - GantiBaju.com is a prominent example. Using crowdsourcing, GantiBaju.com is one of the most exciting startups in Indonesia. In its first year, GantiBaju.com has won several awards including Asia's Top 10 Best Web Apps by Singtel Accelerate in Singapore, and boasts more than $22,000 in monthly revenue.
Just nine months after the first crowd convention in San Francisco, a second event took place June 15 for the first time on European soil. Organized by Clickworker, 150 guests gathered for a day to hear 24 speakers and to discuss the market opportunities for crowdsourcing projects in Germany.
PMT answers the most significant challenges wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, and mobile application developers stumble upon during network signal and device performance testing − time to...
A worldwide survey developed by blur Group showed that nearly half of entrepreneurs and start-ups are developing ‘knowledge-as-a-service’ (KaaS) business models and crowdsourcing is a popular method to jump-start projects.
The study had reviewed the 1,546 members that had particpated on the Innovatrs Exchange www.innovatrs.com , an innovation platform where corporations worldwide can discover, partner with or invest in innovative startups and entrepreneurs.
Crowdsourcing.org interviewed Philip Letts, the founder and CEO of blur Group, a London based international crowdsourced creative group with 11,784 creatives all over the world delivering relevant design, marketing, advertising, media and ideation services. Its main clients are CNN, Financial Times, GE Healthcare and Ralph Lauren.
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
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