In Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight, the villainous Joker uses crowds to facilitate anarchy. He crowd sources his rebellion via a twisted yet innate understanding of the collective. That it fails is a function of how the culture of popular commerce feels guilty about...
Crowdsourcing
Discover the impactful ways crowdsourcing – the practice of engaging a ‘crowd’ or group for a common goal, often for innovation, problem solving, or efficiency – is being applied on many different levels and across various industries.
Leadership Skills in Open Innovation: More Collaboration and Different Control
I think it happens often enough that when an organization opens its doors to the outside, even if it is just to watch the competition, a climate of insecurity or fear emerges within the leadership and management. Organizations have lived for many years within closed...
Crowdsourcing – A Super-Win Situation for All
In an incredible short span of time Talenthouse India has creatively collaborated with several brands of national and international standing. This recognition was only possible because there is enough authenticity and substance in the concept of crowdsourcing. There...
Why Open Innovation Is More Than Hype
Innovation has been a business buzzword for decades. The word is tossed around so often and in so many different contexts that it’s meaning and value have been muddied, but innovation is here to stay and it will be one of the tools that will get us out of our current...
The Tipping Point in Business and the Cultural Innovator
The recent high profile demise of beloved UK entertainment retail brand, HMV, promoted a feeling of national mourning, as another established and seemingly permanent business began to disappear. But it also represents a tipping point for business as we know it. We...
My Nation My Anthem – Crowdsourcing India’s National Anthem
When a nation comes together- magic happens, time and again the history of mankind has proven that harmony can achieve extraordinary results. One such feat is about to get accomplished through My Nation My Anthem, a crowdsourced project by Talenthouse India. How do we...
In Chile, Government Takes a Hands-On Approach in Promoting Innovation
When it comes to sources of innovation, government isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. In Chile, however, that’s not the case. No, new technologies aren’t flowing out of the legislature, nor is President Sebastián Piñera giving up his day job to go the...
How Social Media Can Help Find Your Missing Child
Find Your Missing Child (FYMC) was founded after a social media and email campaign helped one man find his missing child. Its goal is to educate families about the community-building powers of social media and email to aid in the search of a missing child. Using...
Talenthouse Predicts a Great 2013 for Crowdsourcing in India
We at Talenthouse India welcome the second month of this year while taking pride on the laurels of the last year. There were tons of creative submissions, various brands and mentors to cater to while enabling fantastic community creations in all genres of art,...
Using the Crowd to Predict
One of the earliest scientific understandings of the crowd came from the brilliant Francis Galton. According to his Wikipedia entry Galton was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, Geographer, inventor, meteorologist,...
Webinar: Crowdsourcing for Global Innovation
Chaordix is hosting a live webinar via the Conference Board of Canada on "Crowdsourcing for Global Innovation" this coming Tuesday, Feb. 5th at 1pm EST. The Conference Board of Canada is pleased to present Crowdsourcing for Global Innovation, a live webinar on...
Why Encouraging Childlike Creativity is Essential in Business
Kids are naturally creative. If left to their own devices with crayons, paint—even a cardboard box, wonderful things often blossom. So what happens as we get older? Many people think kid “lose” that creativity. However, it’s really the grownups who take it away from...
CrowdChat with AirAsia X CEO Azran Osman-Rani: Innovation in the Airline Industry
For the next #CrowdChat we turn our eyes toward the sky for a discussion with the CEO of one of the most innovative and disruptive airlines in the industry, AirAsia X. Azran Osman-Rani was appointed AirAsia X CEO in 2007, at the impressive age of 36. Under his...
Do You Spot a Difference?
Yes, yes! Apart from the fact that they are pictures of two different Presidents and their wives during their respective inauguration, what is a striking difference between the two? The first picture with President Bill Clinton seems more uptight and bureaucratic with...
Board of Directors = Enemy of Innovation?
(reposted from 15 Inno) I recently provided five reasons why executives do a poor job on innovation and although this makes it difficult for innovation leaders to do their job, I am glad to say that things are changing for the better. A new generation of...
Why Crowdsource?
In 2006, Jeff Howe coined the term crowdsourcing and he defined it via his Wired Magazine as the “act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of...
Latin America: Five Startups Leveraging the Power of the Crowd
My first cross with crowdsourcing was more like a collision, brought on by a friend’s (considerate) attempt to help out and my (persistent) aversion to social-media-overshare. I had made the decision to buy a smartphone and asked a friend I considered tech-savvy for...
CrowdChat With Crowdsourcing Author Ross Dawson, Jan 23 at 1 pm Sydney Time
We are so thrilled to announce that Ross Dawson will be joining us for our next Twitter #CrowdChat -- the man who wrote what’s considered “the must-read bible on using crowdsourcing effectively.” How to even begin introducing Ross Dawson? He is a globally-recognized...
Innovation Depends on Trust, Diversity and Knowledge Networks
"…knowledge diversity facilitates all types of contributions to open innovation projects" When we talk about interactions between companies and its exterior stakeholders, we can say that the knowledge or cultural diversity or even diversity with experiences is key to...
Do You Have The Courage to Follow?
We are always being taught to become great leaders. But how often have you see information or tips to become a great follower? What makes a pioneering follower. You will agree with me that a movement cannot be created with just a bunch a great leaders. We need an...
Crowdsource Your Customer Acquisition and Business Development
Using a crowdsourcing site for referrals can be a big time-saver as well. Anyone who owns or runs a business is always trying to maximize his limited time, and online crowdsourcing is very efficient. There is no travel involved, and conversations are limited to the...
Be Competitively Unpredictable!
Re-published from 15 Inno Can open innovation help your company become competitively unpredictable? Well, in this video, I start out by talking about John Conoley, a CEO at Psion, who said that this objective was one of the key reasons for him to pursue open...
Interview of Siham Belouadheh, Marketing Manager France of 99designs
On November 27th, 99designs announced the launch of a localized French website (99design.fr) and presented its Country Manager for France, Siham Belouadheh. Siham works closely with Eva Missling, 99designs’ General Manager of Europe, and will be supporting...
HunchBuzz: A Crowdsourcing Startup Helps Companies Reduce R&D Costs
HunchBuzz is a new New Zealand based startup on the block that provides cloud based customer & employee engagement platform. HunchBuzz enables entrepreneurs and businesses to strategically generate and manage innovative internal & external ideas, though...