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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...