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Manufacturing success: how to use crowdsourcing to enhance innovation and product development
March 7, 2012… to compete with developing countries in this sector of the economy.
In this environment, crowdsourcing is increasingly recognized as a good way to enhance innovation and develop better products more efficiently. For a variety of reasons, however, many companies are hesitant about importing it into their development processes. Below I set out concrete ways that companies can overcome some of these issues.
Reflections of a software analyst
For the last year and a half I’ve been …
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business, Citizen journalism, crowd, crowdsourcing, Intellectual property, Johnson, Manufacturing, microtask, microwork, Singapore, Small business | Leave a commentHappily ever after: how bored workers and their bosses can benefit from crowdsourcing
February 23, 2012… completing tasks and solving problems, it is understandable that the media sometimes treat crowdsourcing almost like a fairytale industry.
Recently, however, our friends at CrowdControl have begun to tear down our carefully cultivated air of magic and mystery with new research on the demographics of digital labor (I can handle losing a little mystique, but nobody better go anywhere near my special Microtask wizard’s hat). Some of the results do not make pleasant reading for …
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business, crowd, crowdsourcing, Digital, employment, microtask, microwork, Napster, odesk, work | Leave a commentThe land that time forgot: How crowdsourcing can help bring Cuba into the 21st Century
February 6, 2012… and affordable internet connections at least as a way to provide its citizens with work. Second: crowdsourcing could play a big part in this process.
Cuba has a high level of education, so transcriptions from paper to digital formats could be a bit of a waste of potential in this specific case. But when the choice is between doing that and hanging around your front door from dusk till dawn, the decision seems easy. The concepts of crowd labor and microwork are wide enough to appeal to …
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Brazil, Caribbean, crowd, crowdsourcing, Cuba, Cuban, Fidel Castro, Havana, microwork, United States, Varadero | Leave a commentFrom millions of tasks to thousands of jobs: Bringing digital work to the developing world
February 1, 2012… A recent trend is that demand for such digital blue-collar work is satisfied through so-called “crowdsourcing” and “microsourcing” models. This means that instead of a company hiring a staffer or a contractor to carry out a job, the job is broken down into individual tasks and distributed to a large pool of workers over a digital network.
For example, many companies post their tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), a digital labor marketplace. At any given time AMT carries around …
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Bank, crowd, crowdsourcing, eBay, Facebook, Funding Circle, Loan, microtask, microwork, Person-to-person lending, RateSetter | Leave a commentFood52: a recipe for crowdsourcing success?
January 23, 2012… for by the crowd. Winning recipes are awarded prizes and eventually published.
Aside from the crowdsourcing element, what struck me most about Food52 is how good the site looks. Food-wise Amanda and Merrill may be “all about simplicity”, but there’s nothing homemade about their presentation. Winning crowdsourced recipes are accompanied by mouth-watering professional photos (warning: this is not a site for dieters). No doubt this acts as a participation incentive: “enter our …
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