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What are the similarities between crowdsourcing and outsourcing? And what has crowdsourcing learned (and can still learn) from its more mature cousin? These are the issues that Carl Esposti explored in the research report Learning from the Pioneers of Offshore Outsourcing, which we put out earlier this year.
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One of the notable business events of the 20th century was the emergence of offshore outsourcing of professional services. This phenomenon is firmly associated today with India and often referred...
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Tuesday’s “Future of Crowdsourcing Summit”, orchestrated as a single event with simultaneous productions in San Francisco and Sydney linked by video and social media, was well executed and received positively as speakers, panelists and a highly engaged audience discussed the adoption, opportunities and consequences of crowdsourcing.
Does crowdsourcing, however, have the potential to be truly transformational at a macroeconomic level?
Not all off-shore developers fall into the stigma of "half the price and twice the headache"; however, I've had personal experiencing "off shoring". I've wasting more...
We use a combination of Crowdsourcing and Offshoring to keep our services affordable. The experience of the GetViable team ensures that you get quality solutions from the best sources of skills. We...
Simultaneously orchestrated events, early evening tonight in San Francisco and what will equate to lunchtime tomorrow in Sydney, “The Future of Crowdsourcing Summit 2010” marks the second major crowdsourcing event in just under one month.
This summit, produced by the Insight Exchange and chaired by Ross Dawson, Chairman of the Future Exploration Network will be unique, as video and social media will be used to orchestrate a coordinated event across two continents. Sessions will be facilitated across both locations with panel speakers present in both geographies.
TaskUs exists to contribute to the development of a fair and balanced global economy. They are personally responsible for the success and prosperity of clients and employees.They provide the...
Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with Leila Janah, CEO of Samasource, about the company’s vision and business model. Samasource offers a “private crowd” as a model that fits between traditional outsourcing and crowdsourcing; the former providing advantages delivered through the organization of qualified labor and the latter delivering the greatest labor arbitrage advantage. Samasource employs a dedicated workforce, managed off-shore by trained service partners that provide quality control in designated work centers. Janah describes Samasource as “a distributive work company that employs crowdsourcing principles.”
One of the tenets of the open source software movement was that armies of coders and testers would fall-in and self organize driven purely by intrinsic rewards. This was driven by the notion that they could not only build it better, but that closed and restrictive practices were not in everyone’s best interest! So, it would seem that if you could harness the intrinsic motivations of this special breed of individual and further reward their performance, you might just have an unbeatable business model…..maybe uTest has discovered that model?
I was keen to find out what made uTest’s model different and, from the looks of its top name client list, what was underpinning its obvious success. I recently interviewed Matt Johnston, uTest’s Chief Marketing Officer, who shed some light on uTest’s interesting business model.
WhichLance? is a comparison site and B2B empowerment portal focused on providing information, reviews and debate surrounding the full gambit of websites serving the freelancing, offshoring,...
Twago means "Teamwork Across Global Offices” and is an internet based offshoring platform with multi language strategy created to provide high quality services worldwide. Service provider...
At eBay they've found crowdsourcing to be an incredibly powerful tool for completing large-scale information collection and annotation tasks. Still, as with any new paradigm, there is a...
There is no question in my mind that crowdsourcing is a provocative model that will re-shape and augment more established forms of sourcing. It’s not a matter of ‘if’, but rather how large a disruption will amass — and how quickly.
While the model seems new, it has much in common with more established models — and as such, we have case history that we can learn from that will help us accelerate the wholesale adoption of crowdsourcing.
Let’s take a look at the outsourcing industry in India. How the Indians conquered outsourcing is a model we can replicate to establish the broad adoption of crowdsourcing. Back in the 1990’s, the Indian outsourcers weren’t considered as competition for the large national or global ITO and BPO providers. While the larger players were competing for transactions in the tens or hundreds of millions in annual contract value, the Indians were winning pitiful contracts — a million here, two million there — so small they were off radar.
Specific findings of the study includes: *Large corporations are adopting crowdsourcing as a model to support new areas such as content localization,translation to replace traditional BPO...
Crowdsourcing.org first had the opportunity to speak with CloudFactory co-founder Tom Puskarich a few months ago at the cloud labor platform's launch where Puskarich was in attendance with fellow co-founder Mark Sears. Now that CloudFactory's digital assembly line model has been up and running for a few months — and with a new website — we followed up with Puskarich to see how it's going and how a factory in the cloud can help any business, even a pool cleaner in California.
Prove Your Concept. The one-stop shop to turn your idea into a viable product. Helping startups and non-tech founders turn their ideas into products fast. We use crowd-sourcing and offshoring to...
Here are what crowdsourced testing uTest can offer: *Lower Costs: Their crowdsourcing model lets you pay for the test cycles you need. No long-term commitment and a much lower TCO....
There are of course ways crowdsourcing makes sense. Crowdsourcing sites providing useful information such as where to locate the lowest gas prices, or crowdfunding sites that attract sponsors for...
Crowdsourcing enables you to send out an open call to the large group of crowd online called freelance marketplace. The online outsourcing taps into the combined intelligence of huge online...
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.
