/// Tag Archives: crowdsourcing
Tablet Overdose?
January 12, 2012
2011 was the year in which the world experienced an overwhelming flood of tablets: at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show over 100 consumer tablets were...
Smartphone Geo-Location Tagging Is A Major Security Issue
December 19, 2011
Commenting on the ICO’s call for a rethink on location privacy, geo-location tagging security issues are likely to be a major issue in 2012 –...
How Crowdsourcing Will Give Access To Business Information In The Long Tail
December 09, 2011
Crowdsourcing is already used for everything from design and software development to legal advice and journalism. Now paid Q&A based on crowdsourcing enters the field,...
How to make the most out of crowdsourcing
November 14, 2011
Over the past few years, you may have heard about a concept called “crowdsourcing”. It is the process that enables customers to play a role...
Does the wisdom of crowds produce good ideas?
November 14, 2011
If you’re trying to solve a problem or come up with great work, the more people involved the better. In any given group, the cream...
Crowdsourcing: Remember you are the one in charge!
November 11, 2011
Crowdsourcing is at term that has been in use for several years and refers to the process of outsourcing tasks, though originally apparently started...
Is it time to embrace crowdsourcing into your business strategy?
November 11, 2011
Organisations are de-layering to improve flows of information and thus knowledge within the enterprise. At the same time, externally they are focusing on driving individual...
The mythology of ‘Crowdsourcing’
November 10, 2011
Crowdsourcing means many things to many people and there isn’t a whole lot of consensus on exactly what it is. At a basic level, most...
What the BBC can teach us about crowdsourcing
November 07, 2011
Earlier this year, BBC technology hacks announced a crowdsourcing experiment: an app to measure the UK’s mobile broadband speeds. Although, broadly, this was a crowdsourcing success...
Crowdsourcing: A new business model to reduce daily commutes
November 07, 2011
Like Tamagotchis and the Arctic Monkeys before it, crowdsourcing started off as a relatively obscure craze before becoming the hot topic du jour largely thanks...
Crowdsourcing: Far from the Madding Crowd
November 07, 2011
It sounds great. You’ve got a tough, labour-intensive piece of work to do. “Let’s get the crowd to do it for us”, you say....
Disrupting the business model: Tapping into the crowdsourcing community
November 07, 2011
Crowdsourcing business models have exploded over the past few years. Of all the new models that have been born out of the age of internet...
Crowdsourcing problems through prize competitions is the new R&D
November 04, 2011
Centuries ago, the biggest problems of the day were solved with prize competitions: measuring longitude at sea by the Royal Navy in 1714; preserving food...
How to make crowdsourcing work for your business
November 04, 2011
Crowdsourcing is something that I’m a very strong advocate of and something that I believe benefits a whole host of different companies. The term itself...
Crowdsourcing: Why turn to the masses for mission-critical business decisions?
November 02, 2011
There are two types of companies nowadays – private and public. I don’t mean public as in ‘publicly traded’, instead I’m talking about the way...
