When we observe large schools of fish swimming, we might wonder who is choreographing that complex and sophisticated dance, in which thousands of individuals move in harmony as if they knew exactly what to do to produce the collective dance.
Category Archives: Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing: The Next Step in Enterprise Collaboration
Enterprise Collaboration Tools can improve the productivity of organizations by reducing the friction in the flow of information. This post argues that the application of Crowdsourcing techniques in that context is the next step in blending the best of traditional functional segmentation with the benefits of open collaboration.
Gamification for Kids, Collaboration for Grown-Ups
[This post originally written for publication in the Ledface Blog] Next time you are at a cocktail party, take a step back and observe. What do people talk about? How conversations evolve? When people meet for the first time, they exchange facts. They look for coincidences, they try to establish connections. “Did you grow up around here?”Continue reading “Gamification for Kids, Collaboration for Grown-Ups”
Crowdsourcing, Freedom, and Anonymity
This post reflects on the need of trust and freedom to create the conditions where individuals can independently contribute to a co-creation process.
Co-Creation: When the Crowd goes Beyond the Experts
With Crowdsourcing technology, we will be able to solve problems, not by analytically decomposing big problems into smaller ones, but by presenting complex problem to the collective intelligence and let it holistically express the solution.
Crowdsourcing: Knowledge Has a Long Tail
Why the Crowds will beat the Experts The history of human civilization is tightly connected with our ability to use language to organize groups of people to tackle complex problems and projects that are beyond the abilities of a single person. Today, most organizations in our society (governments, armies, companies) structure themselves in a Hierarchical Pyramid, withContinue reading “Crowdsourcing: Knowledge Has a Long Tail”
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