Crowdsourcing accesses ethical hackers who often seek a tough cyber threat challenge, while small businesses can collaborate to co-create cyber security
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Any way in which an organization allows consumers to submit ideas, designs or content, often to a product or service design process
How Small and Medium-Size Businesses Can Benefit From Crowdsourcing
Have you ever encountered a challenge or a problem in the workplace that neither you nor your colleagues could wrap your heads around? What do you do in such a case – employ more capable hands or maybe bring in a third-party company to help sort out the issue?...
Three Ways Crowdsourcing Boosts the Take-up of Cycling
Governments the world over are encouraging more people to use bicycles, and various forms of crowdsourcing are used to support their efforts. This article looks at co-creation to map popular cycle routes in a city; automated sensors and data collection to monitor...
Crowdsourcing Environmental Solutions Through An Online Game That Builds Ecosystems
Conservationists hope a game invented by a PhD student, that uses the same equations used by scientists to study real world ecosystems, will provide some real-life solutions to save endangered species and conserve biodiversity. Researchers are optimistic that...
Customer Collaboration and Co-creation Help Businesses Tackle Covid-19 Setbacks
In many countries, the hospitality industry shutdown during the pandemic lockdowns caused the potential closure of many suppliers. This is particularly true for those that relied on business-to-business sales, where a number of enterprises embraced D2C crowd-based...
Open Innovation Platforms Are Like An Airbnb For Brains
“An open innovation platform shares 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...
The Decade in Crowdsourcing Transcription
Nine years ago, I summed up 2010 as “the year that crowdsourced transcription finally caught on.” This seems like a good time to review the big developments in the field over the decade that 2010 launched. What the field looked like in 2010 It’s interesting to look...
From the Crowd – To the Crowd
Problem: Convey Business Principles So They Will Be Used – Solution: Audio Theater What if someone shows you a video of a person walking into an office and sitting down in a chair? You see it all. There’s nothing left for the imagination. All your thinking has...
What Can Crowds do Against Manipulation of and by Governments?
This is the third in a series of articles covering parts of the book I am writing about possible solutions to modern democracy’s challenges. Join the discussion so we can use the power of crowdsourcing to build on ideas and make them better. Government touches...
The Next Step in Business Audio? Ask the Crowd!
Story as Communication, From Caveman to Walkman When humans listen to a story something amazing happens. Each individual in a crowd reaches into their own personal memories to create and complete the scenes in which the action takes place. In other words, they source...
Helping Out Your Fellow Humans
PARTICIPATION = SATISFACTION In 1996 Jerry Maguire, an aspiring sports agent, repeated a four word request to his first and only client: “ Help me help you! ” And you know where that got him. The feedback gave him the direction he needed to become the one...
How Crowdholding Builds Better Businesses
Did you know that leveraging Crowd Wisdom in your organisation will help you to build a better business? Crowd intelligence can support many aspects of business operations thus ensuring you make better business decisions. Business Summary Many businesses face common...
Improving Leaders’ Performance Through Team Engagement
We live in a time of momentous changes. Yet there’s no doubt about it, most people are resistant to change. Change moves people out of a comfort zone of established performance norms and behaviors, and can change the balance of input and reward. In business we’ve all...
Humans, Robots and the Future of Work
This is a series of blog posts in relation to The Hyperloop of Innovation and Future of Work. First we worked in fields, then factories, and now everywhere and anytime through devices connected to the internet. But what’s next for the future of work? According to Jim...
How Digital Tokens and ICOs Work for Video Gamers
In the 10 years since the iPhone was introduced the computer and video gaming industry has been shifting from stand-alone offline platforms (consoles and PCs) to a $multi-billion online industry with a host of new benefits and possibilities. Mass direct connectivity...
Benefits of effective crowdsourcing shown by 10 top US projects
Crowdsourcing can reduce costs, speed up project timelines, tap in to crowd intelligence and creativity, and engage citizens at all levels of corporate and government processes. It’s not just for new startups, iconic organisations including NASA and GE have specialist...
Crowdsourcing Innovation: Amy Kaminski, NASA’s Program Executive For Prizes & Challenges
Can open innovation stimulate critical improvements and breakthroughs that will provide direct benefits to the world? In recent years, many organizations have turned to open innovation to solve their toughest challenges and address their R&D needs. The use of...
Why Blockchain-based Artificial Intelligence Needs Human Input
Artificial Intelligence is no longer the future, it’s the present and increasing at a phenomenal rate driven by explosive growth of big data, inexpensive computing power and storage, and advanced algorithms like machine learning that enable accurate predictions to be...
Women of NASA creator to inspire new generation with LEGO toys
We spoke to Maia Weinstock, an American science writer and a LEGO enthusiast. After seven years of accepting Maia’s designs for generic scientist figures the company announced in February 2017 it would launch her “Women of NASA” set of figures featuring five prominent...
Harvesting the Power of the Crowd to Implement Reverse Logistics in a Circular Economy
How can used mobile phones be collected via reverse logistics, throughout the city of Amsterdam, to facilitate replacement, repair, remanufacturing and recycling? You know your old mobile phone? Yea, that’s right, the one you have lying around in a drawer somewhere....
Art of Possibilities Beyond Planet Earth
This was the title of an impactful, mind-stretching panel session at CSW Europe 2016, held in Brussels 21-25 November. At its heart, what can we learn from issues dealing with space exploration that is transferable to improve life back on Earth? Karen Eng, a freelance...