research Archives - Crowdsourcing Week

HeroX: the Social Network of Prize Challenges

by Clive Reffell | Jul 2, 2019 |

Finding the right talent to solve your problem can be difficult. Crowdsourcing helps you access a global pool of on-demand talent, helping to make innovation efforts less expensive, easier to manage and of better quality through...

AI Can Make Fund Managers Superhuman

by Stephen Cole | Jun 13, 2019 |

“AIs are really dumb.” The person who said this, Yoshua Bengio in June this year, is often cited as one of the founding fathers of Artificial Intelligence and recently was awarded the A.M. Turing Award. So why would...

Prize Competitions Part 3: Choosing the Appropriate Crowd to Compete

by Christopher Frangione | May 30, 2019 |

This is the third part in our three-part blog series on prize competitions. In Part 1 we shared the power of prize competitions. Part 2 helped you understand what makes a successful prize competition. Now, we will give you some...

Prize Competitions Part 2: Success is in the Design

by Christopher Frangione | May 23, 2019 |

This is the second part in our three-part blog series on prize competitions, or prize challenges as some people prefer to call them. In Part 1 we shared the power of prize competitions as a means to generate open innovation...

Being Bold in Crowdsourcing

by Damon Brown | Mar 14, 2019 |

It’s easy to forget that the Internet was once all open. Rather, the Internet has been in a continuous cycle of highly-structured portals and free-flowing information. The initial platforms, like BBS boards, gave way to walled...

“In order to have a breakthrough, you have to break something”

by Epi Ludvik Nekaj | Feb 26, 2019 |

I wish I had come up with that line, but I must give credit to Joe Polish. It neatly sums up the times we’re living in, where the pace and scale of change are disrupting many established business models and social norms, and...

How to Use Crowdsourcing to Improve Your Content Marketing

by Marie Fincher | Jan 3, 2019 |

No matter the scale of your business or the specific nature of your target audience, content marketing has a huge role to play in your overall advertising strategy. However, you may not have unlimited resources to allocate to...

Sourceability to Surcle: from supplying electronic components to crowdsourcing innovation

by Clive Reffell | Nov 14, 2018 |

Since May 2015, Sourceability has been providing electronic component supply chain solutions on a global basis, with a network of offices based around three global distribution centers in Miami, Hong Kong and Singapore....

How Horizon State Leads the Blockchain Charge

by Damon Brown | Oct 17, 2018 |

The blockchain discussion is often focused on the financial benefits – indeed, you can often catch new folks interchange “bitcoin” and “blockchain” in common conversation. The impact, though, will go well beyond fiat currencies...

How HeroX Helps Solve Humanity’s Problems

by Clive Reffell | Sep 5, 2018 |

All too often, the biggest challenges require the most radical solutions and innovations. Yet most companies don’t recruit on the basis of candidates being radical, they tend to prefer reliability and consistency. Add in the...