Category: Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing IT Security During The COVID-19 Pandemic
The threat of cyber-attacks has risen in the current COVID-19 pandemic, with many company employees working remotely and outside centralised company security systems. Now even small companies need access to experts in...
Read More
COVID-19: The Power of the Powerless Crowds, the Weakness of the Powerful Leaders
The extreme conditions of the Corona crisis lay bare the good, the bad and the ugly. As interesting as it was to observe how countries fight the same virus in different ways, it is equally fascinating to witness a strong...
Read More
Crowdsourcing Global Collective Intelligence Through Prize Challenges to Tackle COVID-19
While governments and global pharmaceutical corporations search for an ultimate long-term solution, a life-saving vaccine, response to the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up many near-term challenges. Prize challenges communicated...
Read More
What is Crowdsourcing, and How Can it Add Value to Your Enterprise?
Since the 2004 publication of James Surowiecki’s highly influential book, The Wisdom of Crowds, the idea that large groups of people can be smarter than a few individuals, no matter how brilliant, has been gradually gaining...
Read More
A Crowdsourcing Rallying Cry to Harness the Power of Crowds
History shows that crowdsourcing is not new. Today, a proliferation of open innovation platforms encourages skilled experts throughout the world to compete for cash and status by offering solutions to an array of prize...
Read More
Same Coronavirus Threat, Different Responses Around the World
It is fascinating to see how different leaders choose to deal with a crisis like the coronavirus outbreak. Let’s compare three approaches: the “Populists,” the “Believers” and the “Proactives.” The Populists Solutions put...
Read More
Open Innovation Platforms Share Human Brains and Ingenuity Like Airbnb Shares Spare Accommodation
These are the words of Christian Cotichini, co-founder and CEO of the HeroX innovation platform. There is growing recognition among organization leaders that opening up challenges to a wider audience than just in-house...
Read More
7 Steps to a Successful Open Innovation Prize Challenge
More and more organizations are recognizing the benefits of open innovation challenges as a means to tap in to the collective wisdom of many people outside of their own employees or other regular sources. Solutions can be...
Read More
The Need for a Circular Economy-Based Global Construction Industry
A fundamental tenet of the sharing economy is to use resources more efficiently. At a time when all of us as individuals are increasingly asked to consider our use of air travel, single-use plastic products, and turning down...
Read More
Using Crowdsourcing to Combat Coronavirus
To combat spread of the coronavirus, this week the Italian Government announced a lockdown of an area in northern Italy that is home to 16 million residents. That has very quickly been extended and the entire population of Italy...
Read More
