Idea Market: A stock exchange metaphor for empowering collaborative innovation Combining the benefits offered by web 2.0 technologies and mindset plus Experian Latin America’s people-oriented culture, in late 2008 we conceived a web ideation platform called Idea Market. It functions as a metaphor of a stock market, in which employees act like entrepreneurs, investors and/or advisors. By doing this, Idea Market extracts the wisdom of the crowds to improve Experian's decision on which ideas should get attention from the board, promoting a BOTTOM-UP management and strategy setting.
International Ideas Exchange for Clients & Creatives Well the simple answer is that for clients, Idea Bounty is the simplest way to hire 1000s of creatives and only pay for the Ideas you want. For creatives it's an amazing platform that allows you to pitch on various briefs. The bottom line: Clients get the best Ideas and creatives get paid for those Ideas. Brilliant, yes? vWorker.com: How work gets done. Guaranteed. Freelancer.com is the world's largest freelancing, outsourcing, and crowdsourcing marketplace for small business. With over 10 million users, you can hire a freelancer to do your contract work at a fraction of the cost. Whether you need PHP developers, web designers, or content writers, you can outsource jobs within minutes. Browse through hundreds of skills including copywriting, data entry, and graphic design or more technical areas like coding HTML, programming MySQL, and designing CSS.
You Gotta Love Lego – Crowdsourcing meets Open Innovation! Yes, you gotta love Lego! Not only is the company doing amazingly well during this ”crisis”; they are also constantly experimenting with new ways of working together with partners. Their new thing is Lego Cuusoo. Here Lego has teamed up with Cuusoo, which is a Japanese pioneer of user innovative product design that introduced a design-to-order process already in 1998. This image gives you a good explanation of the project: Sofar only 1 project has been realized, but once Lego Cuusoo expands beyond Japan and thus activates the huge international fan base, this could turn into an interesting vehicle for Lego.
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the marketplace for expert and business advice - WhatIsKnowHowMart What is PinPointIQ? PinPointIQ is a new innovative and flexible online marketplace that allows anyone with experience and expertise in any area to so sell advice by the hour over the telephone. PinPointIQ matches those seeking advice to those that can offer that advice and facilitates the process by holding the fees in escrow as well as providing a confidential conferencing service so that no personal contact details are disclosed. Who can use PinPointIQ?
Building the online conversation It's time to write history with CMNTY Story. Revolutionize the way you see your community. CMNTY Platform 2.4 The most advanced community platform available. Video introduction to CMNTY. Meet the products and the team behind it. MindSumo Top 10 Crowdsourcing Companies There is a lot of buzz going on around “crowdsourcing” lately, a term coined by the Wired journalist Jeff Howe is his article “The Rise of the Crowdsourcing”. The first time I googled (lower case g because it is already recognized as a verb by the Webster dictionary) “crowdsourcing” it generated around 200.000 results, and that was only a couple of weeks after Howe’s article! But what is crowdsourcing all about? In Howe’s own words “technological advances in everything from product design software to digital video cameras are breaking down the cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals.
Subastas Inversas, RFQ, RFP, eTender - ITbid, solución racional de eSourcing Contrary to what is understood as purchasing traditional consultancy service, the itbid eSourcing purchasing factory provides users a real savings plan, achieving sustainable results over time in line with the company’s criticality criteria. Our project team and the client’s team analyze the categories that can be managed with the established actual spending budget and together define a real saving plan (Purchasing agenda) while implementing purchasing best practices activities in the organization . ITbid focuses on the phases that generate real value in the expenditure cycle: Questioning spending/categories Negotiations according to company purchasing agenda Managing and control complete contract life cycle
Crowdsourcing.org Sponsors Financial contributions from online investors, sponsors or donors to fund for-profit or non-profit initiatives or enterprises. Crowdfunding is an approach to raising capital for new projects and businesses by soliciting contributions from a large number of stakeholders following three types of crowdfunding models: (1) Donations, Philanthropy and Sponsorship where there is no expected financial return, (2) Lending and (3) Investment in exchange for equity, profit or revenue sharing.
Changing the Paradigm: uTest’s Model for Crowd Management uTest announce today three community-driven programs that may represent a paradigm change in mechanisms that drive worker performance. While the advantages of crowdsourcing to leverage a distributed virtual on-demand labor pool, to fulfill a range of tasks from simple to complex appear apparent, it seems the model is not without flaw. Numbers of staff can be ramped-up for a fee or turned off, typically without incremental cost. However, there are challenges managing a workforce that isn’t dedicated and not paid to turn up to work at 9am each day. So how do you optimize a workforce that works voluntarily?