Crowdsourcing's Champions (GE, OMC, SNE, WEN) Crowdsourcing is all the rage these days, another aspect of the cloud computing proliferation that has companies doing crazy things. Even if you have never heard of it, you have probably purchased a product that was developed using crowdsourcing or have been directly involved yourself. Crowdsourcing is the outsourcing of idea generation or tasks that would normally be tackled by employed workers or contractors for a particular company. The task or idea is outsourced to the masses via the Internet or social media technology. Crowdsourcing can be more than just a task or an idea. In general, if it brings benefit by bringing together many people for a common cause, there has been some successful crowdsourcing. See, crowdsourcing is fun and it can be very profitable and cost favorable for many companies. General Electric (NYSE: GE ) General Electric's Ecomagination Challenge is using crowdsourcing to create eco-friendly business ideas.
Open Innovation Community Spigit vs. Jive Software vs. BrightIdea a Decision Makers Guide Thomas Edison’s most important achievement was the development of an effective incandescent light bulb. Most people believe he invented the light bulb but in fact he improved upon a 50 year old idea. 50 years to create what we now know to be one of the most important inventions of the 19th century. Imagine if he was armed with today’s innovation management tools. Imagine if everyone were. It’s fair to say that perhaps Humphry Davy (the first to invent the electric light) would have emerged the father of the light bulb had he been given access to the wisdom of the crowd. The Innovation Management Players While it doesn’t take 50 years to bring new products to market anymore, it still takes much longer than it should. The Innovation Management Guide Why you need Innovation Management I’ve written about BrightIdea and Spigit before (here and here), and have been studying the innovation market for the past 6 months. Enterprise Champion Recommendations It takes guts to introduce change.
Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding - The Industry Website Crowdsourcing specific microtasks Since the first-ever Mechanical Turk meetup a year ago, there has been an explosion in crowdsourcing services and a well-attended conference in San Francisco. I remain enthusiastic about crowdsourcing, but the number of companies has me worried about quality of work. Fortunately specialization is already occurring, so for particular tasks there are companies out there ready to provide high-quality service. One company that recently caught my eye is Helsinki (and SF) based Microtask. A few things about the Microtask platform are worth highlighting. Using call-center workers is novel but crowdsourcing seems increasingly tied to social gaming and virtual currencies. (*) It’s useful to remember that these are simple tasks (e.g., OCR) involving the validation of outputs generated using machine-learning.
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Amazon Mechanical Turk: Best Practices Guide Seattle Tunnel Blocked By Mysterious Artifact? There is mystery surrounding a major work in progress – a tunnel that has literally struck a snag of unknown origins. They call this tunnel machine – Bertha, a 57-foot-wide, earth-eating tunnel maker tearing away dirt and debris below downtown Seattle to make way for an underground highway along the city’s waterfront. The contractors responsible for drilling that tunnel under downtown Seattle say so much groundwater is flowing into the tunnel it will take another few weeks before they can look at what’s blocking Bertha. Chris Dixon of Seattle Tunnel Partners told The Seattle Times that a sealed-off chamber is almost full of water, even though six wells have been dug to try to pump water away from the machine. “We’re a bit puzzled about what’s preventing us from moving forward,” said Chris Dixon with Seattle Tunnel Partners. A mysterious obstruction, 60 feet down, and Seattle is abuzz with theories of what’s in Bertha’s way. The area where Bertha is stuck was once under water.