Three inherent factors give collective crowd intelligence enormous potential for solving the most important and complicated business issues
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.
The Future Arrived Early: Augmented and Virtual Reality Technology Trends
After a virtual reality concert took place inside a Minecraft game, this article takes a look at other recent AR and VR technology trends
How to 10X R&D Using Connected Innovation Intelligence
At Crowdsourcing Week we champion the benefits of open innovation as a means to accelerate the development of breakthroughs, solutions and inventions. A growing number of organisations utilise open innovation platforms to go beyond in-house R&D teams, who work in...
Crowdsourcing Advertising Content in a Changing Industry
The concept of crowdsourcing remains sometimes misunderstood, and can still be confused by non-users with outsourcing. Before I launched Crowdsourcing Week in 2012 I ran a virtual advertising agency in New York City, and so I feel perfectly well qualified to talk...
What is Open Innovation?
Open innovation is a process that goes beyond an organization’s own research and development resources and enlists the support of outside help
The Crowdsourced World of Freelancing and Remote Working in 2025
Freelance jobs and the remote working future of work have already arrived for a large number of the online white-collar workforce. According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report published in October 2020, 84% of employers are set to rapidly digitalize...
Crowdsourcing Week Presents its Ultimate Resource for All Things Crowdsourcing
Our commitment to being the global leader and innovation platform for all things crowdsourcing is founded on a mission to inspire and power breakthroughs through collaboration with our crowdsourcing partners. Those partners mean that through Crowdsourcing Week’s...
Q&A with Jay Kaplan, CEO of Crowdsourced Cybersecurity Platform Synack
With more people working from home these days and relying on digital services, the security of websites and apps has become even more important to companies. At the same time, many white-hat hackers have had more free time to lend their skills to bug bounty platforms...
The First Crowdsourced NFT and Crowdsourcing NFT Appraisals
Through possession of non-fungible tokens, NFTs, any of us can be the owner of digital works of art, books, music and video content, including iconic moments in sport or other performances and events. Their use extends to event tickets, anything collectible and...
The Ways Crowdsourcing Helps All Parties in the Retail Ecosystem
Technology has hurt traditional retailing, no question about it. Online shopping has transformed consumer behaviour and a growing switch away from physical trips to stores has been accelerated by pandemic lockdowns and social distancing regulations. Yet technology is...
Will Digitalism Provide a Beneficial Social Structure or Help Create Greater Divisiveness?
Opportunities created by digitization, and the massive boost to personal mass-communication that smartphones delivered, have always excited and fascinated me. I founded my virtual advertising agency Ludvik & Partners in New York City in 2008. In 2012 I launched...
When to Consider a Specialist Curated Crowd Within Open Innovation
When seeking open innovation solutions for vexing problems, many large organizations and companies think they have a binary either/or choice. The perceived choice is to go down a broad crowdsourcing route with a wide range of non-expert potential problem-solvers, or...
A Q&A with Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity Firm Bugcrowd’s Founder and Chairman, Casey Ellis
The need for cybersecurity has grown exponentially, which has been a boost for providers such as Bugcrowd. Bugcrowd was the first of what is now a number of firms who engage crowds of “ethical hackers” on a freelance/gig economy basis. The key aim through...
Crowdsourcing in the Circular Economy
Much of the work and focus in the circular economy is based around disrupting standard linear economy business models of “take-make-waste” to ones where higher proportions of resources can be recycled with minimal disposal. Through using waste as a resource to be...
The Key Proposition and Value of Crowdsourcing: a Podcast with our Founder and CEO
The availability of low cost, high speed, low friction communications has enabled the value of crowdsourcing to make it an increasingly important activity in a wide range of business sectors. It has disrupted and altered the way we think about creating value. The...
Crowdsourcing Innovation and Prize Challenges for Sustainability
Some fundamental obstacles prevent most big companies adopting methods or business models that are more sustainable. C Corporation company directors have their hands tied by a legal requirement to maximise shareholder value. Stock markets appear to believe shareholder...
How to Use Crowdsourcing in Advertising
Advertising is one of many business disciplines being disrupted by the ease of crowdsourcing input from a range of remote though specialist advisers and expert freelancers. This is largely, though not exclusively, in the areas of creative design and production. Ease...
Why ask your future customers only once about new product development, not twice?
More and more firms have begun practicing the consumer-centric approach to new product development (npd). As part of this approach, firms use sophisticated market research to identify unmet customer needs that could be converted into successful consumer products. Now,...
Mobility and Sustainability in Smart Cities Requires Citizen Engagement and Tight Security
What is a Smart City? Smart cities use crowdsourced data for better analysis of behaviours and efficient resource management in urban areas. The term ‘smart cities’ refers to comprehensive connectivity in a built environment. It includes IoT...
How to Use Crowdsourcing in Financial Services
The past 12 months of pandemic lockdowns and disruption to business through a mass of people working from home has posed a myriad of financial issues across all industries. Apart from internal financial struggles, companies might also be finding it difficult to gather...
10 Business Sectors Where Top Open Source Platforms Have an Impact
The term ‘open source’ refers to much more than just being able to use free software. In a nutshell, Open Source Software (OSS) is crowdsourcing applied to software development. The term originated when early software developers collaborated to learn from and with...