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.

Will Pressure from the Crowd Help Improve Your Health?

You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local  defibrillators. Via TED, Lucien Engelen is a technologist...

Metrics and Open Innovation: What Should We Measure?

This is a difficult topic. There is definitely some in the adage of “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. However, I have seen too many examples in which smart people get side-tracked on what really matters – the output – as they try to develop metrics in order to satisfy executives further up in the system.

New Tools Aid Boston Bombings Investigation

Copley Square in Boston is now a crime scene after the tragic bombing at one of the most iconic sporting events of our time – the Boston Marathon. And hundreds and thousands of people – runners, spectators, law enforcement officials and even passerby’s are all witnesses – with mobile devices.

R&D & Innovation Has Never Been Closer to Customers: Irene Ng

Irene Ng (@Ireneclng), Director of @WMGwarwick International Institute for Product and Service Innovation, answered questions about value & markets in the digital economy during the April 12 #CrowdChat hosted by CrowdsourcingWeek.com (@crowdweek)

Potential of Crowdsourcing in Advertising

One of the professional hazards of working in the Brand building industry is that, you’re extremely sensitive to advertising.

The fact that it is all around and can range from anywhere between awesome to depraved is unsettling enough to push you off your rocker. The upsides of course being that you learn pretty much constantly.

Wil Merritt, Zooppa CEO, on Crowd Creativity as a Brand Resource

Zooppa is the global social network for creative talent. It partners with companies to bring its community members opportunities to create great ads for leading brands. We interviewed Wil Merritt, the CEO of Zooppa on how the company is helping brands and its advocates come together.

When Crowdsourcing Doesn’t Work

When Crowdsourcing Doesn’t Work

Crowdsourcing is a great tool for solving problems, but just like any other tool–it doesn’t solve everything. As the saying goes, when all you’ve got is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail. Crowdsourcing will never be the one-all solve-all...

EdTech in Latin America: Three Trends to Watch

When it comes to technology’s education-related potential, it is largely the populations of developing economies who stand to benefit the most. This is certainly the case of Latin America, where the edtech market had a stellar 2012 and is poised to have an even better 2013.

Should We Really Keep Politicians Away From Scientists?

Sir Paul Nurse has ‘weight’ when it comes to science. His position is the head of The Royal Society in the United Kingdom and in an address in Melbourne he suggested that we need to keep politicians away from scientists: “It also emphasizes the need to keep the science as far as is possible from political, ideological and religious influence,” he said. And I’m wondering whether he is right? Should we really be keeping these areas separate?

Arun Mehra: This is the Era for Collaboration

Crowdsourcing Week interviewed Arun Mehra, the Chief Executive Officer with Talenthouse India, an online platform pioneering in creative collaboration. He is an entertainment industry veteran with over 18 years of experience spanning O&M, MTV, BCCL and Reliance Entertainment.

#CrowdChat with Hugh Mason: Accelerating Asia’s Innovation Ecosystem

Asia is currently one of the most exciting and fast-growing hubs of innovation and entrepreneurship in the world. Within this regional ecosystem, the Singapore-based innovation academy JFDI.Asia has built an extraordinary community of practitioners who accelerate, finance, and teach new startups.

Can Quality Come from the Crowd?

A few weeks ago, I came across a new Brazilian startup, Widbook – a.k.a. the YouTube of Books (according to Mashable). A sort of literary social network with a crowd-based twist, Widbook is a space where aspiring writers can put their work on display and collaborate on ongoing projects as well. A bit of a book nerd myself, I definitely found the idea intriguing. But then I got to thinking: What about quality?

The Ins of the Outs of Crowdsourcing

To garner any lasting and impactful benefits from Crowdsourcing, going ‘out there’ needs internal trust. Without that trust much energy will be expended by a few people, only to see potentially business changing ideas fall on to infertile soil. There are some key things that your organization must understand when it moves toward tapping the crowd.

A Quality Framework for Crowds

The number 1 issue facing the entire wave of crowdsourcing companies today is quality. Everyone can setup a service that is cheaper and has a faster turnaround time, but quality is holding the industry back.

The Geosocial Universe 3.0 [INFOGRAPHIC]

In a time not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a little phenomenon was born that united the people of cyberspace through geographic services and social networking. In August 2010, JESS3 took one giant step for geosocial networking with the introduction of The...

Jokers In The Pack

Even as crowd sourcing platforms mushroom around us, some would succeed and most will fail. The jokers in the pack have an innate understanding of the crowd they’re going after. Kickstarter.com, Kiva.org are the ones who come to mind immediately.

Open Innovation Leadership: More Collaboration, Different Control

Open Innovation Leadership: More Collaboration, 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 environments, so the approaches that address the challenges from open innovation, puts some tension on leadership and management approaches.

Crowdsourcing – A Super-Win Situation for All - Crowdsourcing Week

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.