Planning longterm strategies for organizations is becoming increasingly difficult in the current environment of economic instability, ever-changing technology and resource deficiency. But the very roadblocks I mention above pave the path for a future where...
What makes the consumers go gaga over brands? The attitude that brands sell. There was a time when attitude selling was a myth but today with changing trends and over exposure of media plus with the world becoming a much smaller place, people have changed and so have...
Crowdfunding is a part of the 'Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act' - a 2012 law that aims to help the economy by financing startups and small biz, hard hit by recession and lack of finance. Last week the SEC released the ground rules for crowd funded...
Creativity and innovation have become the buzzwords of the day. For instance, in the 2012 IBM CEO study, more than half of 1700 surveyed CEOs saw innovation as a key resource of sustained economic value. In the same study, 61% of CEOs reported creativity as being one...
I always say that "likes do not save lives" and predict that the future will be about the emergence of web-based channels that allow you to be more productive with your online presence. I like to call this social productivity and I talk about it in a great deal of...
Jeff Bezos has been in the news for his business acumen and for his recent purchase of The Washington Post. In his first interview after the purchase, Bezos spoke with Inc on innovation. His quote on innovation stuck out for me. Jeff Bezos, says - "In my experience,...
The crowdfunding revolution is upon us. Whether you're talking rewards-based crowdfunding, donation, peer to peer lending, or equity crowdfunding, this financing option is growing into a stable and viable option for startups, entrepreneurs and businesses. But policies...
It's coming! The annual global Crowdsourcing Week conference in Singapore will be held April 7-11, 2014. After the resounding success of the 2013 conference, next year's event is only going to get bigger and better. We will announce the conference tracks and our...
For nearly a year now we’ve been working on a production to promote domestic adventure tourism among Indian youth. This project has been conceptualized in collaboration with an American adventure enthusiast and filmmaker. However, the reason it hasn't taken off the...
Crowdsourcing Week's (CSW) London Summit on Oct 3, 2013 was a great success with a special focus on how enterprise and startups can rely on crowdsourced solutions to help them grow the long-term viability of their organizations. With KPMG as our premier event partner,...
We chatted with Darren Westlake, co-founder and CEO of Crowdcube - the equity based crowdfunding platform in U.K. - on Twitter, talking all things crowdfunding and equity. If you missed the chat, we have the "Storify" version for you, below. To be notified of future...
A new whitepaper on video content marketing, written collaboratively by experts from Coca-Cola, Energizer, Asatsu-DK, eYeka, Unruly and ThisMoment, contains valuable and practical information on how to create, select and share video content online. Consumers are...
KPMG’s global crowdsourcing tool, Crowd Connection®, powered by the Chaordix Crowd Intelligence™ offers organisations insights from a customisable online community to provide employee engagement, market intelligence, brand feedback and product co-creation and...
Raise your hand if you have ever sworn at your computer while keying hard to read letters to prove you are human. Yes, I am talking about CAPTCHA - that distorted text that makes users squint their eyes to decipher a tricky combination of words and letters and spend a...
Are you an entrepreneur or investor with questions on crowdfunding for equity? Here is your chance. Darren Westlake, co-founder and CEO of Crowdcube - the equity based crowdfunding platform in U.K. - will be talking all things crowdfunding and equity on our next...
The business operating climate in the UK as well as globally, is rapidly changing with emerging disruptive technologies, increasing cost of business and bigger competition. Remaining competitive in such an environment needs innovation, an agile team and strategic...
Employee satisfaction surveys, online assessments and performance reviews could soon be a thing of the past. Rejoice! These employee engagement strategies have been uncomfortable at best and further deepened the divide between employees and upper management. How can...
Employee satisfaction surveys, online assessments and performance reviews could soon be a thing of the past. Rejoice! These employee engagement strategies have been uncomfortable at best and further deepened the divide between employees and upper management. How can...
This is a fact: you can write a book in few hours. And how you do that? By crowdwriting. When I launched my company NulisBuku.com, the first online self-publishing company in Indonesia, back in 2010, I thought people would write a book in 'traditional' way as I knew...
People around the world are now jumping on the crowdsourcing bandwagon for a variety of intended outcomes. Being in the innovation space, its fairly encouraging to see that the Malaysian government’s foray into crowdsourcing had, in fact, started a few years ago (and...
So you have heard about Elon Musk’s Hyperloop, a futuristic idea to transport passengers, faster and more efficiently than even air travel. Elon has released a 57-page report that outlines his concept that engineers from Tesla and SpaceX have worked on for 9 months....
This post written originally appeared on Forbes. Crowdfunding is rapidly changing the real-estate investment market, offering developers new ways to finance projects, small investors a way in, and the socially conscious an avenue to support their local communities—and...
The Sharing Economy is disruptive. We all know that it has turned ordinary people into entrepreneurs, is helping save precious resources and helping consumers stretch their dollars. But the single most important aspect of the sharing mentality is more than all the...
The JOBS Act Title II was published yesterday on the Federal Register which makes this new law effective on Monday September 23 or 60 days later. This is a gargantuan change from the Securities Act of 1933 — breaking the 80 year old ban on allowing advertising of...