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McKinsey’s Arne Gast and Michele Zaninishow describes some mainstream corporate crowdsourcing initiatives: *Rite-Solutions, a software provider for the US Navy, defense contractors, and...
Various companies (like Starbucks, Sara Lee, Kraft, Fiat Mio, P&G, Unilever, Dell, Betavine, LEGO, Peugeot, Fluevog) have been crowdsourcing in order to further improve their brand or services
The latest application of crowdsourcing by the likes of Unilever and Heineken also differs from some of the early adopters in one other key respect. The new digital platforms are not self-contained...
Sit down with your fundraising team and figure out a way to better promote matching gifts to your donors and don’t leave matching gift money on the table! Here are some additional strategies to...
On the significance of this business partnership, Mr. Dinesh Agarwal, Founder & CEO, IndiaMART.com, said, “We, at IndiaMART.com, believe that marketing is extremely important for MSMEs and...
Open Innovation demands fast, effective competitive technical intelligence, that means: *Open Innovation model is moving Competitive Intelligence from a niche to a mainstream position in...
CrowdFlower, the San Francisco-based crowdsourcing company, will announce significant management changes later today. Co-Founder and CEO Lukas Biewald will be replaced by Woody Hobbs, a veteran executive with experience at both technology and financial service firms. CrowdFlower will also appoint Richard Arnold as CFO and VP of strategy and corporate development. Hobbs and Arnold have worked together on three previous ventures. including serving as CEO and CFO of the mobile software provider Intellisync when it was acquired by Nokia for $430 million in 2006.
Dolores Labs, renamed CrowdFlower in January 2010, was founded by Biewald in and Chis Van Pelt in 2007, and quickly became one of the most reputable firms utilizing Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform. Biewald brought methodological rigor to an oft-disparaged category of crowdsourcing. Biewald and company were rewarded with considerable interest from the venture capital community. In March of last year CrowdFlower raised $5 million in Series A funding and in March this year raised an additional $7 million.
Dale McCarthy, founder of Foundry, says the site caters for all types of video production, from web advertising and web how-to videos to corporate videos and high-end TVCs. “As a seasoned...
CCEMC came about as a result of regulations that Alberta has implemented to address the problem of climate change. The organization has put out six previous RFPs within Canada, and is working...
Ideastorm, essentially an online suggestion box, was unique when it launched during the early days of Social Media. It was viewed as a bold, groundbreaking corporate initiative - enabling...
With social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and others on the horizon, it’s evident that social media has empowered individuals to access, publish, and consume information 24 hours a day....
The MCPC conference series started out in 2001 as a bi-annual conference devoted to mass customization & personalization. The content has broadened in recent years, including also customer co-creation, user innovation, and other strategies of customer-driven value creation (hence, MCPC = Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation"). In 2011, the conference will bridge MCPC with a topic that has driven and inspired the field since several years: open innovation.
Freedom OSS understands Enterprise challenges when it comes to security, SLA requirements and manageability. Freedom OSS will develop a practical and achievable Cloud strategy for your...
Market research, an integral part of an informed business strategy, typically relies on the knowledge of industry analysts and vendor marketing for insight. Thinkspeed believes it has a better model, one that taps into the collective intelligence and expertise of a crowd of professionals to provide accurate, informed market research more in tune with consumers’ purchasing decisions. Using a “curated crowdsourcing” format, Thinkspeed engages portions of its 10,000-strong community to generate market research for technology companies, investment professionals, IT decision makers and the like.
Crowdsourcing.org spoke with Arun Prakash, Thinkspeed vice president of marketing, to learn more about the company’s crowdsourcing-based model of market research.
It is too bad that the Department of Energy charged with developing our new energy future can't even use today's most modern technology innovation strategies. It is even odder still that...
"It is important to involve young people in policy development in order for our views, expectations and aspirations to be fully represented," said Jennifer Ehidiamen, a blogger and...
Sarah Miller Caldicott, the great grandniece of Thomas Edison and author of Innovate Like Edison, presented at a recent meeting of innovation executives at a “Birds of a Feather Innovation Leaders” (BOF) event. Sarah presented on the groundbreaking practices of Thomas Edison categorized into “Five Competencies of Innovation”: solution-centered mindset, kaleidoscopic thinking, full-spectrum engagement, mastermind collaboration and super-value creation.
“Edison would define innovation [as] creating and delivering new customer value,” says Caldicott, discussing Edison’s strategies and practices. “A lot of what you are all endeavoring with Brightidea is to do just this, create new customer value.”
However, it is a fact that companies shift their task solving process from ‘job-based’ hiring to ‘task-based’ resource management. Crowdsourcing might be a great way to enable this shift in...
Researchers led by Phyllis Moen of the University of Minnesota recently evaluated Best Buy's program, launched in 2006 and inspired by Results-Only Work Environment, and found that it...
In conclusion, this paper frames the acquired technology intelligence in the context of a technology radar, from which external technologies are selected for investment through a real options...
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