Today's innovation problems are tough to solve. The traditional methods that have served your enterprise well for decades no longer seem to work, and your current crop of young, talented millennial don't want to stick around to help. To find out more how crowdsourcing can benefit your business, please contact us at DeloittePixelUK@deloitte.co.uk
Live Teaching Case: The Gothenburg Smart City ChallengeRobin Teigland
Describes a live case used in the third year of the Industrial Economics program at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. The focus is on Smart Cities, open data, and digital innovation.
#DTR8: The New Innovation Paradigm for the Digital Age: Faster, Cheaper and O...Capgemini
In this edition of the Digital Transformation Review, we examine how organizations can create sustainable and successful innovation strategy, drawing on our global panel of industry executives and academics.
We focus on four key themes:
Which digital innovations should be on organizations' radar screens?
How should companies promote innovation and embed it into their culture?
What lessons can we draw from organizations that are stand-out innovators?
What is the role and impact of innovation centers, including the Capgemini Consulting-Altimeter Group report, "The Innovation Game: Why and How Businesses are Investing in Innovation Centers".
This document discusses disruptive technology and its impacts. It provides Clayton Christensen's definition of disruptive technology as something that is "smaller, cheaper, lighter, more convenient, while being simultaneously lesser" than existing products. The document notes that disruptive technology can open new markets and opportunities for innovation, but also poses challenges for established companies and industries like universities and healthcare. Examples of industries impacted by disruptive technology are provided.
Bring CSR activities to another level - HACKATHONSChallengeRocket
ChallengeRocket recently released the ebook focused on connecting hackathons (programming events) with sustainable development (CSR) for organizations active in all sectors. Case studies in publication show how innovative and socially responsible may be companies if they open the door for stakeholders to engage them in joint creation of ideas and solutions. Hackathon as a form of gaining unconventional ideas and reaching out to talented professionals is an important part of the modern corporate social responsibility strategy.
Content Partner of our ebook is Responsible Business Forum and Honorary Patronage - UN Information Center in Warsaw.
Small software startups are highly innovative because they operate without hierarchies and share all work openly. This allows developers to see and build on each other's work, responding quickly to new ideas and problems. The companies immerse themselves in online developer communities to further leverage open innovation. Their model forces constant innovation to stay ahead of potential competitors.
Technology innovation hubs are physical spaces that have emerged across Africa to support the growth of technology communities and entrepreneurship. They provide coworking spaces, access to high-speed internet and resources, and opportunities for collaboration and learning. By bringing together talented young people, they help fill gaps in support structures for technology innovation. Examples discussed include iHub in Nairobi, ActiveSpaces in Cameroon, and iceAddis in Ethiopia. These hubs aim to catalyze technology and economic development by providing the physical and social infrastructure needed for digital communities to evolve.
An overview of how change works, and what can be done to accelerate transformational change in an industry. Created for the Openlab Workshop, December 1-2, 2015 in Washington, DC.
Live Teaching Case: The Gothenburg Smart City ChallengeRobin Teigland
Describes a live case used in the third year of the Industrial Economics program at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. The focus is on Smart Cities, open data, and digital innovation.
#DTR8: The New Innovation Paradigm for the Digital Age: Faster, Cheaper and O...Capgemini
In this edition of the Digital Transformation Review, we examine how organizations can create sustainable and successful innovation strategy, drawing on our global panel of industry executives and academics.
We focus on four key themes:
Which digital innovations should be on organizations' radar screens?
How should companies promote innovation and embed it into their culture?
What lessons can we draw from organizations that are stand-out innovators?
What is the role and impact of innovation centers, including the Capgemini Consulting-Altimeter Group report, "The Innovation Game: Why and How Businesses are Investing in Innovation Centers".
This document discusses disruptive technology and its impacts. It provides Clayton Christensen's definition of disruptive technology as something that is "smaller, cheaper, lighter, more convenient, while being simultaneously lesser" than existing products. The document notes that disruptive technology can open new markets and opportunities for innovation, but also poses challenges for established companies and industries like universities and healthcare. Examples of industries impacted by disruptive technology are provided.
Bring CSR activities to another level - HACKATHONSChallengeRocket
ChallengeRocket recently released the ebook focused on connecting hackathons (programming events) with sustainable development (CSR) for organizations active in all sectors. Case studies in publication show how innovative and socially responsible may be companies if they open the door for stakeholders to engage them in joint creation of ideas and solutions. Hackathon as a form of gaining unconventional ideas and reaching out to talented professionals is an important part of the modern corporate social responsibility strategy.
Content Partner of our ebook is Responsible Business Forum and Honorary Patronage - UN Information Center in Warsaw.
Small software startups are highly innovative because they operate without hierarchies and share all work openly. This allows developers to see and build on each other's work, responding quickly to new ideas and problems. The companies immerse themselves in online developer communities to further leverage open innovation. Their model forces constant innovation to stay ahead of potential competitors.
Technology innovation hubs are physical spaces that have emerged across Africa to support the growth of technology communities and entrepreneurship. They provide coworking spaces, access to high-speed internet and resources, and opportunities for collaboration and learning. By bringing together talented young people, they help fill gaps in support structures for technology innovation. Examples discussed include iHub in Nairobi, ActiveSpaces in Cameroon, and iceAddis in Ethiopia. These hubs aim to catalyze technology and economic development by providing the physical and social infrastructure needed for digital communities to evolve.
An overview of how change works, and what can be done to accelerate transformational change in an industry. Created for the Openlab Workshop, December 1-2, 2015 in Washington, DC.
This document outlines key topics from a forum on Canada's digital future called Canada 3.0. It provides an overview of the event, including that it had over 1,000 attendees from government, industry, and academia. It discusses the vision for Canada to become a global leader in the digital economy. Several presentations and workshops are summarized that focus on issues like digital skills training, research and commercialization, and attracting and retaining digital talent. The forum aimed to provide input on developing a national ICT strategy for Canada's digital economy.
Mission-e-motion: new co-creation platform on electric mobility (by @boardofi...Board of Innovation
The document discusses promoting new mobility solutions through collaboration. It introduces the organization "mission-e-motion" which brings together companies, institutions, and individuals to develop ideas and solutions for electric mobility. Mission-e-motion currently has several projects and missions in development, including an intelligent charging system, a car sharing/limousine service, and an event racing team. It is exploring the potential for crowdsourced ideas and knowledge through a workshop to further develop its business model and missions.
This presentation describes the Networked Information Economy background to Open Source before looking at the UK Higher Education market for library Management Systems and how Open source is affecting that market
Kent Anderson's slides from his wrap-up of the 2010 PSP Electronic Information Committee (EIC) Pre-conference on "The Culture of Free: Publishing in an Era of Changing Expectations."
Leveraging networks for improved performanceRobin Teigland
This document discusses leveraging social networks for improved performance. It begins with an introduction to the speaker, Professor Robin Teigland, and their background. The discussion then covers organizational network analysis and personal network analysis. Some key points include how analyzing knowledge flows and communication pathways in a network can help improve performance, and how an individual's position and connections in a network can impact their opportunities. The presentation provides examples of network mapping and analysis tools that can be used to better understand networks.
The document describes a partnership called the Global Humanitarian Lab (GHL) that aims to incubate, develop, and accelerate innovation to address humanitarian needs. The GHL will do this through three main pillars: an incubator to develop ideas, a fab lab for prototyping solutions, and an accelerator to help scale solutions. It was initiated by organizations like the ICRC and UNHCR and has a wide network of supporters. The goal is to foster a user-centered approach and empower affected populations to solve their own problems through approaches like digital fabrication and crowdsourcing.
My presentation from the European Training & Development Summit 2009 in Barcelona, Spain in September 2009. More information on the event is here: www.bmeglobal.co.uk/ETD09/Develop-the-full-Potential-of-your-Personnel-2.html.
Innovation Everywhere For Manufacturing + Servicesgamechange
The document discusses innovation at Premier Manufacturing Support Services. It defines innovation as implementing new ideas or improvements to products and services to create greater value for customers. The document outlines different types of innovation, including new technologies, business models, pricing strategies, and more. It also distinguishes between invention, which is developing a new concept, and innovation, which is finding new applications or combinations of existing resources. The document then discusses how innovation occurs globally and provides examples of innovative companies and countries. It emphasizes that innovation requires an ongoing process of learning and improvement.
This document discusses how entrepreneurship and the internet are flattening the world by spawning new opportunities globally. It provides examples of international websites being replicated in other countries. Entrepreneurship is driving future prosperity worldwide by creating jobs, innovation, industries, and philanthropy through growing companies and risk capital. The chapter examines how Chinese internet and app markets are promising for innovations due to large user base, and how Taiwanese entrepreneurs understand Chinese culture and markets, positioning them as partners for other countries' entrepreneurs seeking opportunities in China.
A white paper from interviews conducted with global leaders about the impact of digital on corporate interactions in 2020. How is leadership impacted by new communication challenges and what solutions exist to handle better these new challenges!
How large corporates improve the way they innovateCapgemini
Mick Liubinskas is Entrepreneur in residence at muru-D – a startup accelerator backed
by Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company. Mick
has a successful track record of startup creation. He was the co-Founder & Director
of Pollenizer, Australia’s first digital incubator, and was a co-founder of Startmate. At
muru-D, he is responsible for attracting and selecting high-potential technology startups
and then working with them to drive significant, global, long-term success. After many
years in Australia, Mick recently moved to Silicon Valley.
We spoke to him to understand how large corporates can improve the
way they innovate. Mick explains why entrepreneurs need to lead innovation initiatives at big corporates.
He also highlights the importance of proximity to tech hubs: “Innovation and entrepreneurship are about the 10,000 tiny discussions that are greatly helped
by proximity.”
This document discusses open innovation and how large organizations are embracing open innovation models through accelerator programs to keep up with today's fast-paced environment of technological change and disruption. EY and Cisco have both created accelerator programs to unlock the benefits of open innovation by facilitating collaboration between the organizations and startups. The publication aims to share lessons learned from their approaches to open innovation.
Years Best Non Traditional Advertising for 2013 from Contagious MagazineBrian Doyle
The document provides an overview of some of the major movements and trends of 2013, including:
- Grand ambitious projects were unveiled but have yet to be fully realized, such as Elon Musk's Hyperloop transportation system and lab-grown meat.
- The Edward Snowden revelations highlighted issues of government surveillance and eroding privacy, prompting many to change their privacy settings and use more ephemeral messaging apps.
- The sharing economy continued to grow but issues emerged around job security, regulations, and distribution of profits between workers and companies.
- Selfies and short-form video grew tremendously in popularity, reflecting trends of visual culture and hyper-documentation of everyday life.
The document summarizes some of the major movements and trends in 2013, including the spreading of innovative ideas to more mainstream audiences. Grand ambitious projects were unveiled but remain far from completion, such as Elon Musk's plans for a Hyperloop high-speed transit system and efforts to develop lab-grown meat. Technology continued to clash with established institutions and bring issues of transparency and individual expression to the forefront. Overall, the future became less unevenly distributed in 2013 as innovative ideas spread further than their places of origin.
The document summarizes some of the major movements and trends of 2013, including the spreading of innovative ideas to more mainstream audiences. Grand ambitious projects were unveiled but still have a long way to go, such as Elon Musk's plans for Hyperloop high-speed transit and efforts to create synthetic beef. Technology continued to clash with established institutions and bring issues of transparency and government surveillance to the forefront. Grassroots movements also gained more attention in 2013 as rebellious behaviors and disruptive projects spread further.
The document provides an overview of some of the major movements and trends in 2013, including:
- Grand gestures by entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Google's plans for ambitious but long-term projects in areas like transportation, food production, and asteroid mining.
- The Edward Snowden revelations about government surveillance and their impact on increasing public concerns about online privacy and the rise of ephemeral messaging apps.
- The growth of the sharing economy and issues around how it is affecting traditional jobs and regulations.
- The rise of selfies and hyper-sexualized self-presentation on social media, exemplified by events like Miley Cyrus' VMA performance and the popularity of apps like Tinder that emphasize
Crowdsourcing Innovation Examples - MIT ID InnovationPankaj Deshpande
Here are some excellent crowdsourcing innovation examples. Let's have a look at the blog to know in detail: https://mitidinnovation.com/recreation/crowdsourcing-innovation-examples/
The document provides a preliminary agenda for the Global Solutions Summit 2016 being held in Little Rock, Arkansas from December 13-14, 2016. The summit will bring together leaders from government, business, investment, technology and NGOs to discuss scaling proven sustainable technologies to address global challenges. The agenda focuses on developing better systems for investing capital from large funds into deploying existing solutions, matching innovators with entrepreneurs, and supporting sustainable urban development as most population growth will be in cities. The objective is to accelerate scaling of technologies to transform lives and further sustainable development goals.
Open Innovation: The Open Secret in MarketingFrank Jurden
The document discusses open innovation and how crowdsourcing can be used in marketing to generate new ideas and solve problems. It argues that traditional closed innovation approaches used by companies have limitations and are increasingly inadequate. Open innovation allows companies to tap into a global network of problem solvers and harness diverse ideas from outside experts. While companies have been slow to adopt open innovation due to concerns about expertise, intellectual property and culture change, the document provides examples of how open innovation has successfully been used in other industries to generate cost savings and innovative solutions. It proposes that marketers can benefit from incorporating crowdsourcing and open innovation approaches throughout the product development process.
Agility: a whitepaper from LRN LAB by innogy Consultinginnogy Consulting
Agility means going against the grain of traditional business to develop a new understanding of leadership and management in the digital era. Read how LRNLAB and innogyConsulting view this inevitable shift in organizational structure.
This document outlines key topics from a forum on Canada's digital future called Canada 3.0. It provides an overview of the event, including that it had over 1,000 attendees from government, industry, and academia. It discusses the vision for Canada to become a global leader in the digital economy. Several presentations and workshops are summarized that focus on issues like digital skills training, research and commercialization, and attracting and retaining digital talent. The forum aimed to provide input on developing a national ICT strategy for Canada's digital economy.
Mission-e-motion: new co-creation platform on electric mobility (by @boardofi...Board of Innovation
The document discusses promoting new mobility solutions through collaboration. It introduces the organization "mission-e-motion" which brings together companies, institutions, and individuals to develop ideas and solutions for electric mobility. Mission-e-motion currently has several projects and missions in development, including an intelligent charging system, a car sharing/limousine service, and an event racing team. It is exploring the potential for crowdsourced ideas and knowledge through a workshop to further develop its business model and missions.
This presentation describes the Networked Information Economy background to Open Source before looking at the UK Higher Education market for library Management Systems and how Open source is affecting that market
Kent Anderson's slides from his wrap-up of the 2010 PSP Electronic Information Committee (EIC) Pre-conference on "The Culture of Free: Publishing in an Era of Changing Expectations."
Leveraging networks for improved performanceRobin Teigland
This document discusses leveraging social networks for improved performance. It begins with an introduction to the speaker, Professor Robin Teigland, and their background. The discussion then covers organizational network analysis and personal network analysis. Some key points include how analyzing knowledge flows and communication pathways in a network can help improve performance, and how an individual's position and connections in a network can impact their opportunities. The presentation provides examples of network mapping and analysis tools that can be used to better understand networks.
The document describes a partnership called the Global Humanitarian Lab (GHL) that aims to incubate, develop, and accelerate innovation to address humanitarian needs. The GHL will do this through three main pillars: an incubator to develop ideas, a fab lab for prototyping solutions, and an accelerator to help scale solutions. It was initiated by organizations like the ICRC and UNHCR and has a wide network of supporters. The goal is to foster a user-centered approach and empower affected populations to solve their own problems through approaches like digital fabrication and crowdsourcing.
My presentation from the European Training & Development Summit 2009 in Barcelona, Spain in September 2009. More information on the event is here: www.bmeglobal.co.uk/ETD09/Develop-the-full-Potential-of-your-Personnel-2.html.
Innovation Everywhere For Manufacturing + Servicesgamechange
The document discusses innovation at Premier Manufacturing Support Services. It defines innovation as implementing new ideas or improvements to products and services to create greater value for customers. The document outlines different types of innovation, including new technologies, business models, pricing strategies, and more. It also distinguishes between invention, which is developing a new concept, and innovation, which is finding new applications or combinations of existing resources. The document then discusses how innovation occurs globally and provides examples of innovative companies and countries. It emphasizes that innovation requires an ongoing process of learning and improvement.
This document discusses how entrepreneurship and the internet are flattening the world by spawning new opportunities globally. It provides examples of international websites being replicated in other countries. Entrepreneurship is driving future prosperity worldwide by creating jobs, innovation, industries, and philanthropy through growing companies and risk capital. The chapter examines how Chinese internet and app markets are promising for innovations due to large user base, and how Taiwanese entrepreneurs understand Chinese culture and markets, positioning them as partners for other countries' entrepreneurs seeking opportunities in China.
A white paper from interviews conducted with global leaders about the impact of digital on corporate interactions in 2020. How is leadership impacted by new communication challenges and what solutions exist to handle better these new challenges!
How large corporates improve the way they innovateCapgemini
Mick Liubinskas is Entrepreneur in residence at muru-D – a startup accelerator backed
by Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company. Mick
has a successful track record of startup creation. He was the co-Founder & Director
of Pollenizer, Australia’s first digital incubator, and was a co-founder of Startmate. At
muru-D, he is responsible for attracting and selecting high-potential technology startups
and then working with them to drive significant, global, long-term success. After many
years in Australia, Mick recently moved to Silicon Valley.
We spoke to him to understand how large corporates can improve the
way they innovate. Mick explains why entrepreneurs need to lead innovation initiatives at big corporates.
He also highlights the importance of proximity to tech hubs: “Innovation and entrepreneurship are about the 10,000 tiny discussions that are greatly helped
by proximity.”
This document discusses open innovation and how large organizations are embracing open innovation models through accelerator programs to keep up with today's fast-paced environment of technological change and disruption. EY and Cisco have both created accelerator programs to unlock the benefits of open innovation by facilitating collaboration between the organizations and startups. The publication aims to share lessons learned from their approaches to open innovation.
Years Best Non Traditional Advertising for 2013 from Contagious MagazineBrian Doyle
The document provides an overview of some of the major movements and trends of 2013, including:
- Grand ambitious projects were unveiled but have yet to be fully realized, such as Elon Musk's Hyperloop transportation system and lab-grown meat.
- The Edward Snowden revelations highlighted issues of government surveillance and eroding privacy, prompting many to change their privacy settings and use more ephemeral messaging apps.
- The sharing economy continued to grow but issues emerged around job security, regulations, and distribution of profits between workers and companies.
- Selfies and short-form video grew tremendously in popularity, reflecting trends of visual culture and hyper-documentation of everyday life.
The document summarizes some of the major movements and trends in 2013, including the spreading of innovative ideas to more mainstream audiences. Grand ambitious projects were unveiled but remain far from completion, such as Elon Musk's plans for a Hyperloop high-speed transit system and efforts to develop lab-grown meat. Technology continued to clash with established institutions and bring issues of transparency and individual expression to the forefront. Overall, the future became less unevenly distributed in 2013 as innovative ideas spread further than their places of origin.
The document summarizes some of the major movements and trends of 2013, including the spreading of innovative ideas to more mainstream audiences. Grand ambitious projects were unveiled but still have a long way to go, such as Elon Musk's plans for Hyperloop high-speed transit and efforts to create synthetic beef. Technology continued to clash with established institutions and bring issues of transparency and government surveillance to the forefront. Grassroots movements also gained more attention in 2013 as rebellious behaviors and disruptive projects spread further.
The document provides an overview of some of the major movements and trends in 2013, including:
- Grand gestures by entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Google's plans for ambitious but long-term projects in areas like transportation, food production, and asteroid mining.
- The Edward Snowden revelations about government surveillance and their impact on increasing public concerns about online privacy and the rise of ephemeral messaging apps.
- The growth of the sharing economy and issues around how it is affecting traditional jobs and regulations.
- The rise of selfies and hyper-sexualized self-presentation on social media, exemplified by events like Miley Cyrus' VMA performance and the popularity of apps like Tinder that emphasize
Crowdsourcing Innovation Examples - MIT ID InnovationPankaj Deshpande
Here are some excellent crowdsourcing innovation examples. Let's have a look at the blog to know in detail: https://mitidinnovation.com/recreation/crowdsourcing-innovation-examples/
The document provides a preliminary agenda for the Global Solutions Summit 2016 being held in Little Rock, Arkansas from December 13-14, 2016. The summit will bring together leaders from government, business, investment, technology and NGOs to discuss scaling proven sustainable technologies to address global challenges. The agenda focuses on developing better systems for investing capital from large funds into deploying existing solutions, matching innovators with entrepreneurs, and supporting sustainable urban development as most population growth will be in cities. The objective is to accelerate scaling of technologies to transform lives and further sustainable development goals.
Open Innovation: The Open Secret in MarketingFrank Jurden
The document discusses open innovation and how crowdsourcing can be used in marketing to generate new ideas and solve problems. It argues that traditional closed innovation approaches used by companies have limitations and are increasingly inadequate. Open innovation allows companies to tap into a global network of problem solvers and harness diverse ideas from outside experts. While companies have been slow to adopt open innovation due to concerns about expertise, intellectual property and culture change, the document provides examples of how open innovation has successfully been used in other industries to generate cost savings and innovative solutions. It proposes that marketers can benefit from incorporating crowdsourcing and open innovation approaches throughout the product development process.
Agility: a whitepaper from LRN LAB by innogy Consultinginnogy Consulting
Agility means going against the grain of traditional business to develop a new understanding of leadership and management in the digital era. Read how LRNLAB and innogyConsulting view this inevitable shift in organizational structure.
Crowdsourcing is an online, distributed problem solving and production model that revolutionized the internet and mobile market at present. It turns the customers into designer and marketers. The practice of Crowdsourcing is transforming the web and giving rise to a new field. Today the leading enterprises are embracing the next paradigm shift in the distribution of work by outsourcing to the crowd in the cloud. Everyday millions of people make all kind of voluntary online contribution. With the number of people online approaching 3 billion by 2016 and projected to reach 5 billion by 2020, new workforce has emerged that are now used for different purposes. Available on-demand this workforce has abundant capacity and the expertise knowledge to perform work from simple to complex and solve problems and grand challenges. This paper gives an introduction to Crowdsourcing, its theoretical grounding, model and examples with case study. In this paper we show that Crowdsourcing can be applied to wide variety of problems and that it raises numerous interesting technical and social challenges. Finally this paper proposes an agenda for using Crowdsourcing in NLP.
We’ve reached an inflection point. The world’s resources are growing scarcer and supply and demand curves are colliding. Resources have seldom been more tightly constricted. Nations and their people are feeling the tightening grip of constrained water, energy and raw materials. Demands on resources and infrastructure are escalating, as the global middle class rapidly emerges to what will be 5 billion strong in just 15 years. Meanwhile inside organizations across all industries and geographies, the increasing scarcity is having a major impact on supply chains and operations.
Companies face new economic realities where the hard-hitting pressures from the global economic downturn have not eased. The demands have increased and they are coming from all sides. While customers demand immediate and unwavering satisfaction, boards and shareholders call for better oversight at all organizational levels. And the growing complexities and volatility of supply chains make meeting those demands all the more difficult.
In order to respond to these economic challenges, enterprises large and small need to maximize their inputs and optimize their operations. This means continually identifying underused capacities and squeezing every scrap of value from what they already possess. It also requires a supply chain that is better able to predict supply shortages, reduce risk wherever possible and respond to unexpected change.
Organizations must master the art of doing more with less if they hope to survive against today’s global competition and the challenges tomorrow unfolds. Forward-leaning companies will take advantage of the global marketplace, new cultural mindsets, and novel and disruptive technologies, like 3D printing, analytics, cloud computing and machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity. Businesses must respond quickly and decisively to rising resource constraints. The fact of the matter is enterprise efficiency and resource optimization are no longer nice-to-haves—they’re core competencies.
* Content Courtesy of SAP futureofbusiness.sap.com
From Crowdsourcing to BigData - how ePatients, and their machines, are transf...Ferdinando Scala
Ferdinando Scala - Leandro Agrò
Today oceans of data are being produced and collected both by people and machines, at the same time changing the way we think about healthcare as a field of study; as a result Patients - actually ePatients - are becoming ever more informed and independent with their healthcare decisions.
"Ignited” is sharing the knowledge and experience embedded within Salford Business School in a way that is accessible and relevant.
Presented as a range of short pieces from colleagues within the School this collection of insights proves that the future is:
complex
connected
international and
most definitely exciting!
Business is changing rapidly and just “keeping up” is a very real challenge for us all. Supporting our stakeholders to remain relevant and fully aware of the changing landscape of business is an integral part of our mission, our contribution to business and a reflection of the impact that we have on our local, national and international communities.
http://blogs.salford.ac.uk/business-school/2015-the-year-of-connected-business/
This document discusses crowdsourcing, including its definition, types, pros, cons and implementations. Crowdsourcing involves obtaining information or resources from a large online group of people. There are four main types: wisdom of crowds for problem-solving, creation for collaborative design/building, voting for democratic choices, and funding through crowdfunding. Some pros are unexpected solutions, diversity of ideas, and reduced costs, while cons include lack of control, inconsistent outcomes and intellectual property issues. Common platforms that use crowdsourcing are Wikipedia, Amazon Mechanical Turk and uTest.
Digital disruption is transforming companies across all sectors into digital businesses. This requires radical openness, transparency, collaboration, and informal and creative work cultures. The workplace must support these digital cultures by providing choice, flexibility, and spaces that encourage collaboration and accidental meetings. Characteristics of digital workplaces include activity-based environments, communal spaces, and opportunities to work in co-working spaces that support openness, inter-connectivity, and knowledge-sharing between companies and individuals across sectors.
1. The document discusses challenges that financial institutions face when adopting external innovations from startups and vendors. It explores issues such as risk management, cultural differences, and long sales cycles.
2. It identifies "leaks" in the innovation process where collaboration is lacking between innovators and customers during problem identification and solution testing. It also finds issues with startups successfully adopting their solutions.
3. Potential solutions discussed include financial institutions being more open to startups they have existing relationships with, startups employing staff with customer knowledge, and partnering with companies that complement their solutions and have customer connections.
The document provides an overview of crowdsourcing and its impact. It discusses how crowdsourcing has transformed nations through collaboration on social media. It also examines how businesses are adopting crowdsourcing to co-create products and services. The document notes both advantages of lower costs for businesses but also disadvantages like less credible outputs compared to professionals. It highlights an example of a crowdsourcing platform in India called Foodlets that allows users to share pictures of restaurant menus.
Crowdsourcing involves outsourcing tasks traditionally done by employees to a large group of people. It allows companies to tap into talent outside their own organizations. Crowdsourcing problems are broadcast to an unknown group who submit solutions, which are then sorted and evaluated. There are four main types of crowdsourcing: crowdfunding, crowdcreation, crowdvoting, and crowd wisdom. Crowdsourcing provides benefits like low costs, access to wider talent, and customer insights. It differs from outsourcing in that tasks are done by an undefined public rather than specific contractors.
Innovation from Everyone and Everywhere (1)Marianne Doczi
This document discusses developing sustainable innovation capabilities for 21st century New Zealand. It advocates taking an "innovation from everyone and everywhere" approach to fully harness New Zealand's human capital. The document outlines principles of innovation from all people in all places, customer-centricity, and collaboration both within and across organizations. It also discusses the skills, leadership, culture, and management practices needed in organizations to enable innovation from all sources. The goal is to start an online community to further discuss improving attitudes, skills, and practices for widespread innovation.
Similar to The three billion - Enterprise Crowdsourcing and the growing fragmentation of work (20)
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This PowerPoint compilation offers a comprehensive overview of 20 leading innovation management frameworks and methodologies, selected for their broad applicability across various industries and organizational contexts. These frameworks are valuable resources for a wide range of users, including business professionals, educators, and consultants.
Each framework is presented with visually engaging diagrams and templates, ensuring the content is both informative and appealing. While this compilation is thorough, please note that the slides are intended as supplementary resources and may not be sufficient for standalone instructional purposes.
This compilation is ideal for anyone looking to enhance their understanding of innovation management and drive meaningful change within their organization. Whether you aim to improve product development processes, enhance customer experiences, or drive digital transformation, these frameworks offer valuable insights and tools to help you achieve your goals.
INCLUDED FRAMEWORKS/MODELS:
1. Stanford’s Design Thinking
2. IDEO’s Human-Centered Design
3. Strategyzer’s Business Model Innovation
4. Lean Startup Methodology
5. Agile Innovation Framework
6. Doblin’s Ten Types of Innovation
7. McKinsey’s Three Horizons of Growth
8. Customer Journey Map
9. Christensen’s Disruptive Innovation Theory
10. Blue Ocean Strategy
11. Strategyn’s Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) Framework with Job Map
12. Design Sprint Framework
13. The Double Diamond
14. Lean Six Sigma DMAIC
15. TRIZ Problem-Solving Framework
16. Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats
17. Stage-Gate Model
18. Toyota’s Six Steps of Kaizen
19. Microsoft’s Digital Transformation Framework
20. Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
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Industrial Tech SW: Category Renewal and CreationChristian Dahlen
Every industrial revolution has created a new set of categories and a new set of players.
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2. Contents
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the support they have received from a number of people in Deloitte while
researching this publication, including Greg Howard, Renee Hunt and Ankur Borthakur.
We would also like to thank Marcus Shingles and Jonathan Trichel from Deloitte Consulting LLP for their formative thinking.
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Foreword 1
Introduction 2
What is crowdsourcing? 4
Using the crowd in business 9
From closed to open 13
Endnotes 14
Contacts 16
3. You know that the best solution is out there somewhere but in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and
ambiguous world, it’s not always obvious what combination of people, skills and technology you need.
Thankfully, this dynamic environment is an enabler and not an inhibitor of an emerging, solution-finding method called
crowdsourcing – the umbrella term for a variety of approaches that harness the time, expertise and resources of large
crowds of online people. Crowdsourcing offers a way for enterprises to find new solutions and to offer otherwise
frustrated and nomadic employees a greater diversity of work. It’s also creating new opportunities for individuals to
change the way they work, learn new skills and earn rewards wherever they are, even in remote corners of the planet.
Once seen as the preserve of obscure state-sponsored competitions or corporate innovation projects, crowdsourcing is
now considered mainstream, increasingly embedded in the core business activities of small and large enterprises alike.
In 2014, Gartner predicted that 75 per cent of high-performing enterprises will use crowdsourcing in some form by 2018.
Today, the online crowd is helping enterprises tackle a wide range of challenges, from menial tasks to more complex
needs requiring specialised skills. It’s having spectacular results, too, in certain situations creating better and more scalable
solutions at lower cost than even the best in-house teams.
Should you be thinking about crowdsourcing? Is it only for start-ups and small businesses or can it be used at enterprise
scale? Can crowdsourcing be useful for more than just a technology solution? What are the ‘killer apps’ and how do they
work? How do you manage the crowd to create value? And what are the cultural and commercial challenges you will
face? In the following pages, we take a close look at crowdsourcing and tackle these questions.
In our view, crowdsourcing is part of an ecosystem of rapidly maturing technologies and methods that look set to play a
fundamental role in the future of commerce and society. This paper – the latest in our series of reports under the title of
‘Disrupt: Deliver’ – aims to help business and public sector leaders understand the new and emerging opportunities for
organisations in all sectors to create and deliver compelling services for their customers using the power of disruptive innovation.
We hope that you find this paper useful and we look forward to your feedback.
Vimi Grewal-Carr Carl Bates
Managing Partner for Innovation Partner, Lead for Crowdsourcing
Deloitte LLP Deloitte LLP
Foreword
Today’s innovation problems are tough to solve. The traditional
methods that have served your enterprise well for decades no
longer seem to work, and your current crop of young, talented
millennials don’t want to stick around to help. Exponentially advancing
technology, a rapidly growing online worker population and improved
access to education all add up to a confusing medley of options.
Vimi Grewal-Carr
Carl Bates
The three billion Enterprise crowdsourcing and the growing fragmentation of work 1
4. Throughout history, crowds have been invited to tackle
tough literary, scientific and technological challenges that
have stumped even the most brilliant minds.
In 1567, King Philip II of Spain offered a reward to
anyone who could devise a simple and practical method
for precisely determining a ship’s longitude at sea.2
The
reward was never claimed. Almost 150 years later, in 1714,
the British government established the ‘Longitude rewards’
through an Act of Parliament, after scientists, including
Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Christiaan Huygens, Edmond
Halley, and Isaac Newton, had all tried and failed to come
up with an answer.3
The top prize of £20,000, worth
over £2.5 million today, provided a significant incentive to
prospective entrants.
Ultimately, the Board of Longitude awarded a number of
prizes for the development of various instruments, atlases
and star charts. However, it was John Harrison,
a clockmaker from Lincolnshire, who received the largest
amount of prize money overall – over £23,000.4
What is,
perhaps, most astonishing about Harrison’s 300-year-old
sea clock design is that a test of a working version in 2015
demonstrated that it is “the most accurate mechanical
clock with a pendulum swinging in free air”, keeping to
within a second of real time over a 100-day test, according
to Guinness World Records.5
The crowd was not just useful for technological
breakthroughs. In 1879, when Sir James Murray was
responsible for editing the first edition of the Oxford
English Dictionary (OED), he put out a call for volunteers to
identify all of the words in the English language together
with quotations illustrating their use.6
During the next 70
years, the OED received over six million submissions from
tens of thousands of contributors. Murray’s initiative has
been compared to the modern-day Wikipedia in terms of
the scale of its ambition to gather and curate knowledge.7
Wikipedia, itself, has grown from 15,000 articles at the
end of its first year, in 2001, to over five million English
articles today, which have been edited over 800 million
times by a crowd of nearly 28 million registered users.8
Businesses also have a rich history of trying to tap into
crowds, using consumer surveys, focus groups, and
experiential marketing to provoke customer engagement.
Product R&D, in particular, has seen significant activity,
with open innovation campaigns launched by many large
companies, including 3M, BMW, General Mills, and Stanley
Black & Decker.9
After conversations about how today’s businesses
were beginning to use the internet to outsource
work to individuals, Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson,
editors at Wired Magazine, were first to coin the term
“crowdsourcing” in 2005.10
In conceptualising the term
the following year, Howe suggested that “crowdsourcing
represents the act of a company or institution taking a
function once performed by employees and outsourcing
it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people
in the form of an open call. This can take the form of peer-
production (when the job is performed collaboratively),
but is also often undertaken by sole individuals.”11
The
term ‘crowdsourcing’ is often used interchangeably with
‘open innovation’.
Right now, crowdsourcing competitions like the $30
million Google Lunar XPRIZE, the $25 million Michelson
Prize or the £10 million 2014 Longitude Prize are
challenging – and incentivising – professional scientists,
engineers, entrepreneurs and innovators from all over the
planet, amateur and professional alike, to develop novel
solutions to the world’s ‘wicked’ problems.12, 13, 14
In more
straightforward applications of crowdsourcing, platform
providers like Lionbridge and Samasource are helping
enterprises with language translation, data validation,
image tagging and other routine tasks that require flexible
access to large numbers of people with basic computer
skills.15, 16
Wikistrat, OnFrontiers and 10EQS tap into the
specialist expertise of hundreds of thousands of people
worldwide to provide flexible, non-routine services such
as consultancy, market intelligence, strategy development
and research.17, 18, 19
Introduction
“To answer the most vexing innovation and research
questions, crowds are becoming the partner of choice.”
Kevin Boudreau, Karim Lakhani 1
2
5. Despite a growing number of success stories, though,
relatively few businesses draw on the crowd in a systematic
way. Pushing problems out to a vast group of strangers
seems at odds with conventional corporate wisdom.
Managers, who have traditionally looked inward for
solutions, are understandably wary. How, for example, can
you protect intellectual property if it is exposed so publically?
How can you manage the crowd to ensure it delivers? How
can you integrate a crowdsourced solution into existing
corporate processes and systems? What about the costs?
And how can you be sure you’ll even get a good solution?
Today’s workers are also frustrated with the directions
their careers are taking. They want to work on a greater
diversity of projects, and concentrate their time on those
activities that drive both reward and social worth. Yet
traditional career paths in business prize ever-deeper
industry knowledge, experience or management
prowess – and workers trudge along these for years, and
sometimes decades. Millennials, who represent one of
the largest segments of the labour force, are not afraid
to switch jobs frequently, and now expect to work an
average of 12 to 15 jobs during their lifetime.20
Many of
the millennials that Deloitte has surveyed do not believe
that their current employers are taking full advantage of
their skills, and as many as one in four would quit their
jobs given the chance.21
Employers, as a consequence, are in a never-ending
‘war for talent’ – cosseting specialists and experienced
professionals, and grappling with ever-tighter immigration
rules, which limit human capital flows across country
boundaries. And employees are looking for alternative
approaches to work and reward. In such a fluid
employment environment, how can you motivate and
incentivise employees to stay? How do you help them to
develop new skills? How do you inspire them to help tackle
your own challenging problems or even give something
back to society?
According to eYeka, a global market leader in creative
crowdsourcing for marketers and creatives, 85 per cent of
the top global brands have used crowdsourcing in the last
ten years.22
Gartner, Inc. anticipates that by 2018,
75 per cent of the world’s high performing enterprises will
be using crowdsourcing.23
That’s leading crowdsourcing
companies, such as eYeka, InnoCentive, Kaggle and
TopCoder, to ‘industrialise’ approaches to finding optimum
solutions, and they now manage many aspects of the
innovation process to help businesses tackle problem-
solving with a minimum of effort.24, 25, 26, 27
And if it’s not the aggregate ‘wisdom of the crowd’ being
sought but simply the best person to fulfil a specific
task, then companies like Gigwalk, Upwork, 99Designs,
Streetbees, DesignCrowd and Writology help businesses
connect with and manage talented experts right across
the world.28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33
For individual workers, the crowd creates opportunities for
a different kind of employment, greater freedom of choice
and sometimes bigger rewards, too. The idea of open
source talent via crowdsourcing is itself growing in scale,
sophistication and importance as an alternative staffing
model.34
According to influential innovation academics
Kevin Boudreau and Karim Lakhani, “Crowds are energised
by intrinsic motivations, such as the desire to learn or
to burnish one’s reputation in a community of peers.”35
Reputation aside, the earnings of the most successful
crowdsourcing challenge participants can now also easily
exceed $500,000 per annum.36
This paper is intended to help businesses understand
crowdsourcing and its benefits. On the following pages,
we examine what makes crowds tick and how businesses
can use the collective insight offered by crowdsourcing
to deliver greater diversity and breadth of ideas and
knowledge. We tackle many popular misconceptions
associated with crowdsourcing, such as it can only be
used at small scale by start-ups and small businesses.
We also cover potential challenges to process, risk, people
and culture. And, in light of our research, we explore
how businesses can take simple but effective steps to find
innovative solutions that work for their business and for
their employees.
Today’s workers are also frustrated with
the directions their careers are taking.
They want to work on a greater diversity
of projects, and concentrate their time
on those activities that drive both reward
and social worth.
The three billion Enterprise crowdsourcing and the growing fragmentation of work 3
6. Right crowd, right problem
As Jeff Howe said in his book, crowdsourcing is not a silver
bullet for commerce.38
But the crowd does provide an
array of different approaches to help enterprises operate
more efficiently amid ongoing shifts in policy, science,
technology and skills, and the fluidity exhibited by the
wider economy. Businesses and other organisations are
finding that the crowd can help with a wide range of
challenges, from simple rote tasks, like image labelling,
raising money or voting, through to far more complex
problems, like brainstorming ideas, designing new
products or even strategic planning.
Crowdsourced problems can be vast in scope, such
as SETIlive, a ‘citizen science’ project conducted by
Zooniverse in conjunction with the SETI Institute, which
asked people all over the world to help with the search for
extra-terrestrial intelligence.39
Or they can be exquisitely
precise, such as seeking a new technology to remove
microbubbles from extracorporeal bloodstreams, a current
challenge competition managed by InnoCentive.40
What is crowdsourcing?
“Not everyone in the crowd wants to make silly videos.”
Jeff Howe 37
Business
need
Do you want the
best response or as
many responses as
possible?
Do you have a
defined task to be
completed or an
unresloved problem?
Do you need
information, funding
or some other
activity?
Best
response
Unresolved
problem
Defined
task
Information
Other
activity
Many
responses
Figure 1. Choosing the right crowd for the right problem [double-page spread]
4
7. Some attempts have been made to classify the astonishing
diversity of use cases into a standardised set of general
crowdsourcing approaches. But even these typologies
are in disagreement: some are problem-based while
others are task- or even platform-based.41, 42, 43
Crowds,
too, can be widely varying in size and skills of their
members. For example, the freelance workers registered
with on-demand micro-tasking platform TaskRabbit
help consumers with everyday tasks, including cleaning,
moving or delivery work, whereas the business challenges
run by the competition site Kaggle, “the home of data
science”, typically require members of the crowd to have
high-end computer science, physical science, statistical or
mathematical skills.44, 45
So how can you choose what crowdsourcing approach is
right for you? In Figure 1, we illustrate the paths to various
crowdsourcing models.
Enterprise crowd platforms
Open approaches to innovation have long been the norm
for some companies. PG’s ‘Connect + Develop’, for
instance, has enabled the company to establish more than
2,000 successful agreements with innovation partners
around the world.46
In 2001, IBM started an internal
innovation experiment that has now evolved into its
‘InnovationJam™’ platform, which it uses to work with
clients, helping participants to ‘jam’ by contributing their
expertise and opinions in various topic areas.47
But more and more companies and public sector
organisations are now ditching traditional innovation
processes and are, instead, working with enterprise-scale
platforms to reach broader crowds capable of generating
answers and executing tasks faster and more cost
effectively than their own employees.
Do you want
respondents to
collaborate or
compete to find a
solution?
Does the task
require specialist or
non–specialist skills?
Do you want high
quality or any quality
content?
Do you want active
or passive
participation?
Do the tasks require
processing skills or
complex problem
solving skills?
Non–
specialist
Active
Passive
Funding
Any quality
Processing
High quality
Collaborate
Compete
Specialist
Crowd collaboration
e.g. openIDEO, Quirky
Crowd competition
e.g. TopCoder, Kaggle, InnoCentive
Crowd labour (microtask)
e.g. openIDEO, Quirky
Crowd labour (mesotask)
e.g. Lionbridge, Samasource
Crowd labour (macrotask)
e.g. 10EQS, Wikistrat, OnFrontiers
Crowd funding
e.g. Kickstarter, CrowdCude
Crowd curation
e.g. Wikioedia, LINUX
User–generated content
e.g. YouTube
Crowd voting
e.g. Crowdtivate, Threadless
Crowd processing
e.g. ReCAPTCHA
The three billion Enterprise crowdsourcing and the growing fragmentation of work 5
8. Figure 2 illustrates different types of crowdsourcing platforms and their relative strengths and weaknesses.
Figure 2. Enterprise crowd platforms
Crowdsourcing model
Crowd collaboration
Good for
• Tasks requiring the aggregate
‘wisdom of the crowd’
• Generating outside ideas
• Promoting individual
capabilities or expertise
• Predetermined outcomes
• 99Designs
• X Prize
• Quirky
Not so good for Examples
Crowd competition
• Creating actionable solutions
• Developing prototypes
• Building a sense of community
• Generating outside ideas
• ‘Gamification’
• Predetermined outcomes • TopCoder
• Kaggle
• InnoCentive
• Applause
Crowd labour
(mesotasks)
• Well-defined tasks that require
specialist processing skills
• Routine but time-consuming
activities, such as data entry
• When you don’t want to hire
permanent employees or
contractors
• Poorly defined, unstructured or
non-routine activities
• Tasks requiring subjective
judgement or specialist skills
• Lionbridge
• CrowdFlower
Crowd labour
(microtasks)
• Well-defined, everyday tasks
for individuals that require
general skills only
• On-site manual work, such as
store restocking, furniture
assembly and cleaning
• Large crowds
• When you don’t want to hire
permanent employees or
contractors
• Real-time market intelligence
or data gathering
• Poorly defined, unstructured or
non-routine activities
• Tasks requiring subjective
judgement
• Tasks requiring specialist or
higher-level cognitive skills
• TaskRabbit
• Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
• Streetbees
• Gigwalk
• Samasource
Crowd labour
(macrotasks)
Crowdfunding
Crowd curation
User-generated
content
• Poorly defined or unstructured
tasks or problems, such as
strategy development,
research or consulting
• Tasks requiring subjective
judgement or specialist skills
• When you don’t want to hire
permanent employees or
contractors
• Fundraising
• Start-ups
• High transparency
• Building and sharing
knowledge
• Building large content
repositories
Source: Deloitte
• Routine tasks and activities
• Financing ongoing operations
• Loosely structured initiatives
• High short-term expectations
• Solving defined problems
• Ensuring the best possible
quality of content
• 10EQS
• Wikistrat
• OnFrontiers
• Applause
• Kickstarter
• CrowdCube
• Wikipedia
• TripAdvisor
• YouTube
• iStockphoto
6
9. Five billion workers by 2020
The internet is the engine of the modern-day
crowdsourcing platform. It provides both a broadcast
mechanism for organisations to set or announce
challenges and a network for connecting people and their
diverse ideas, skill sets and knowledge. The number of
internet users worldwide is growing exponentially, and
has risen from just 414 million in 2000 to over 3.4 billion
in 2016.48
At the current rate of growth, there will be
approximately five billion internet users by 2020.
The countries driving this growth include India, China,
Brazil, Indonesia and the US, which collectively added
over 136 million internet users last year (China, alone,
accounted for over 108 million).49
The change in India’s
online population last year was over 30 per cent and,
despite their comparatively small populations, the other
fastest risers, with 12-month growth rates in excess of
15 per cent, include Mali, Lesotho, Cameroon, Vanuatu,
Mauritania and Liberia.50
Mobile access to the internet is also growing, with 52.7
per cent of the global mobile phone population accessing
the internet from their mobile phone in 2015.51
This
number is expected to reach 63.4 per cent by 2020, which
means that mobile phones will be the most popular way
for people to access the internet within four years.52
One of the principal benefits of greater online connectivity is
improved access to and provision of education – particularly
in developing economies and currently impoverished nations.
Through programmes such as UNESCO’s Framework for
Action, digital technologies are enabling international
commitments to be made to provide high quality primary and
secondary education to all children, focusing on numeracy,
literacy, analytical problem-solving and other higher-level
cognitive, interpersonal and social skills needed in the future
global economy.53
The implications for enterprises of this growth in
connectivity and education are immense. Crowdsourcing
harnesses the creative and competitive spirit of people
all over the world. Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill
Joy said in 1990, “No matter who you are, most of the
smartest people work for someone else”.54
Geolocation
and low-cost mobile applications make it easy for smart
people everywhere to participate – even if just to do
small tasks. And in an increasingly volatile, uncertain,
complex and ambiguous operating environment, to
develop a competitive advantage – or even just to survive
– “companies today need armies of people,” says Vivek
Wadhwa, a Fellow at Stanford Law School.55
But rather
than these armies being permanent employees, the crowd
gives all organisations the ability to scale up and down
dynamically to match changing workload demands, and to
find experts in different markets and geographies.
Figure 3. Number of internet users in the world
Numberofinternetusersintheworld(million)
Year (as of 1st July)
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
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(est)
2015
2014
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2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
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2004
2003
2002
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Source: Internet Live Stats
“No matter who you are, most of the smartest people
work for someone else.”
Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems co-founder
The three billion Enterprise crowdsourcing and the growing fragmentation of work 7
10. Boudreau and Lakhani describe a well-functioning crowd
as being “loose and decentralised” and the problem
exposed to “widely diverse individuals with varied skills,
experience, and perspectives.”56
As more people from all
walks of life shift online, therefore, the crowd can begin to
operate at a scale that “exceeds even that of the biggest
and most complex global corporation, bringing in many
more individuals to focus on a given challenge.”57
The
diversity of backgrounds, knowledge, skills and abilities
within the crowd can, under certain circumstances, lead
to better, cheaper or more scalable solutions than those
developed by teams of in-house specialists.
How is this different from outsourcing or temporary
agencies that have been around for decades?
Crowdsourcing platforms can now match buyers to a
much broader base of sellers while reducing many of the
administrative hassles, combining cloud, mobile, social,
and web technologies to create new marketplaces.
For location-based assignments, individuals carry GPS-
enabled devices, such as smartphones, that provide
on-the-spot data entry and performance verification. For
example, Clickworker, a German crowdsourcing company,
draws on a pool of 700,000 ‘clickworkers’ in 136 countries
to take pictures, and gather geodata and other types of
information for surveying and research.58
Others, such
as Gigwalk, use mobile technology to help organisations
find and manage geographically dispersed teams and
workers, enabling more effective performance monitoring
and management.59
For temp agencies or outsourcers,
the talent pool is constrained by their rosters. In contrast,
enterprise platforms like OnFrontiers and Wikistrat can
provide easy access to specialists from many walks of
life – professionals, freelancers, and hobbyists – who have
the motivation, qualifications, and flexibility to create
innovative ideas and execute assignments promptly.60, 61
Crowdsourcing is not a panacea, though, and does not
always represent the right approach. So how should
businesses new to crowdsourcing get started? What do
they need to think about and do to ensure they benefit
from the many crowdsourcing platforms available?
How can they integrate crowdsourcing solutions and
approaches into existing business models? In the next
section, we take a look at how businesses create value
from the crowd.
As more people from all walks of life shift
online, therefore, the crowd can begin to
operate at a scale that “exceeds even that
of the biggest and most complex global
corporation, bringing in many more
individuals to focus on a given challenge.”
8
11. Using the crowd in enterprise
“Organisations, by their very nature, are designed
to promote order and routine; they are inhospitable
environments for innovation.”
Theodore Levitt 62
How does the crowd deliver value?
The crowdsourcing ecosystem is still relatively young, but
as new platforms and use-cases emerge, the potential
for disruptive impact on the enterprise is significant. In
shifting towards a more ‘outside-in’ approach to problem-
solving, for example, crowdsourcing changes the way
that businesses, public sector organisations and other
enterprises create value. The size of a company, the number
of employees, the tools and other intellectual property
developed, or the exclusive agreements a company has with
partners in its supply chain no longer limit the capacity of
any organisation to discover and apply knowledge. Instead,
it is the greater access to knowledge the crowd provides
and, in particular, the frictionless flows of diverse ideas
enabled by crowdsourcing that now create value.
For businesses, the benefits of crowdsourcing can include:
• Faster design – in 2012, DARPA, the US Defence
Advanced Research Projects Agency, decided to
crowdsource its next-generation amphibious fighting
vehicle after shutting down its traditional procurement,
which had already cost taxpayers $13 billion.63
The
winning design was announced in April 2013, just six
months after the competition was launched.64
• Faster prototyping – When small-scale prototyping
matters, TechShop, a US-based chain of workshops
described as an “inventor’s playground”, allows members
of all skills levels to use its suite of modern industrial tools
and machines, such as 3D printers and robots, to build
their own projects quickly and cost-effectively.65
• Higher quality – Allstate, the second largest general
insurer in the US, sponsored a competition in which the
crowd created a liability prediction model that was
271 per cent more accurate than the original.66
• Greater elasticity – when consumer products
change – as they do frequently, but also sporadically –
CrowdSource uses the crowd to provide retailers with
new product titles, descriptions and marketing copy,
enabling the retailers to benefit from increased agility
and a faster time to market.67
• Appetite for tedious tasks – TaskRabbit enables
anyone to earn money by performing simple tasks or
errands for customers who are time-poor or do not
have the skills required for many types of task, such
as assembling flat-packed furniture, moving house or
decorating.68
• Access to new pools of external talent – SpringRole
has been described as the “TaskRabbit of recruiting” by
HR Tech Advisor.69
SpringRole enables ‘regular’ people to
make money for the simple task of referring their friends
for job openings.
• Better engagement and retention of internal talent
– Thomson Reuters uses crowdsourcing internally to tap
into the skills of its 17,000 technologists, finding new
problem solvers and breaking down department silos.70
In certain situations, crowdsourcing can also lead to
lower costs. For example, Colgate Speed Stick used the
crowd to create a Super Bowl advert for the bargain-
basement price of $17,000, compared with the nine-figure
sums usually associated with traditional agencies.71
In
general, crowdsourcing has forced down the costs of
experimentation while simultaneously improving the
quality of output. This has allowed all organisations, not
just the largest corporations, to consider the benefits they
can achieve from the crowd.
The three billion Enterprise crowdsourcing and the growing fragmentation of work 9
12. Don’t get lost in the crowd
Crowdsourcing has broad implications for every
organisation attempting to use its business model, and
decision-makers face a complex array of risks and issues
that, left unchecked, may prevent them from achieving
the benefits they seek. Tinkering around the edges of your
organisation to get ideas to flow is one thing but building
crowdsourcing into core delivery activities to realise benefits
at scale is not as straightforward as simply ‘outsourcing’
challenges to established crowdsourcing platforms.
Academics Eoin Whelan, Kieran Conby, et al, go so far
as to suggest that, “the majority of the open innovation
literature, across all fields of research, shows a bias
towards its favourable aspects”.72
They suggest that a
number of the inherent deficiencies of crowdsourcing
also need to be brought to the attention of businesses.
For example, there will always be aspects of business
operations or governance too important or too risky to
deliver using a faceless crowd. Moreover, simply handing
off work to the crowd will not automatically lead to
benefits. Instead, ensuring that ideas converge on an
appropriate solution swiftly and cost-effectively means
understanding how the crowd works and the steps that
need to be taken to set up and manage its activities, and
to integrate its outputs. In the same way that managing
an offshore team requires additional investment in
management effort, so too does the crowd.
In Figure 4, we explore the key issues and questions that
business leaders should be asking before committing to
the crowd.
Although crowdsourcing is not the only answer, if it is
planned, initiated, managed and integrated according
to a defined strategy then it offers organisations a
relatively easy way to experiment with new problem–
solving approaches, to design and develop new product
prototypes, to make new connections and to develop
talent – and to scale what works.
Academics Whelan, Conby, et al,
suggest that a number of the inherent
deficiencies of crowdsourcing also
need to be brought to the attention of
businesses.
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13. Figure 4. Key issues and questions
Issue
Lack of understanding
or conceptual clarity
about crowdsourcing
What’s the problem?
• The crowdsourcing concept is
not clearly communicated or
understandable; there’s a lack
of consensus on what the term
refers to
• Limited applicability of the
crowd, and knowing when it is
the right approach
• Finding the right platform and
partner
• Where could crowdsourcing provide the
greatest benefits to my business? For
example in innovation, access to talent
or process/task completion.
• Is crowdsourcing right for my
organisation? And, if so, what is the
business case?
• Where would there be too much risk
associated with crowdsourcing?
• With whom do I interact within
my organisation to collaborate
and deliver?
• What are my competitors and peers
doing with the crowd? What problems
or opportunities do we share?
• Can we use crowdsourcing to leapfrog
our competitors or to steal a march in a
new market?
• Identify a champion in your business to
whom you can turn for expert advice
and insight
• Assess whether you need to appoint a
senior business owner, and if
crowdsourcing fits with your existing
plans for alternative delivery models
• Ensure that you engage the right crowd
for your type of problem
• Develop a clear, concise and coherent
strategy for using crowdsourcing in your
business
Key questions to ask Suggested approaches
Ensuring good quality
of submissions from
the crowd
Challenges to talent
and organisational
culture
• Permanent employees feel
threatened when activities are
outsourced to the crowd
• The organisation feels like it is
losing control and ownership
of the solutions it delivers
• Who in my organisation will be most
affected by crowdsourcing and are
they supportive?
• Do I understand where the crowd is
better-placed to answer questions
than my permanent staff?
• Identify clearly the boundaries between
‘business-as-usual’ projects and crowd
projects
• Encourage employees to participate in
the crowd to develop new skills and
experience – but set reasonable limits
• Encourage employees to collaborate
Difficulties associated
with outsourcing to
the crowd in
traditional ‘line’
organisations
• Ensuring a good quality of
submissions
• Minimising any additional
effort associated with
managing the crowd or
platform provider
• Are my requirements well defined?
• Do we understand how the ideas and
solutions generated by the crowd will be
integrated with our existing products and
operations?
• Can the tasks or activities be easily
broken down into their component parts?
• Can we provide continuity between
crowd and in-house teams? For example,
do we know how to reassemble
solutions for component parts, and do
we have the right people to do this?
• Are there other crowdsourcing projects
from which I can draw lessons?
• How do I ensure responsibility for and
buy-in to products created by the crowd?
Who will manage these once integrated
into our organisation?
• Ensure that the context in which the
crowdsourcing project sits is well
understood by all internal parties as well
as the crowd
• Aim for a balance in the scope of work
between open activities (those that
require submission of a number of
diverse ideas) and closed tasks (those
that focus on just getting a simple job
done)
• Working with the crowd
requires a different, more open
approach compared to more
traditional delivery methods
• Governance processes are set
up to deal with classic rather
than agile development
methodologies
• Wholesale changes to business
processes and assessment of
risk are difficult, if not
impossible
• What and where are the bottlenecks
in our business that would prevent or
inhibit crowd-based approaches?
• Where does good practice exist
already in our organisation?
• What will be the impact of
crowdsourcing on our legacy
approaches and systems?
• Focus internal teams on the bigger
picture – not just on the
crowdsourced task – and make them
responsible for and empowered to
deliver the integrated solution
• Identify ‘pilot’ activities at the edge of
the business that can be used as a
testbed for crowd-based development
approaches, and also to test risk issues
and appetite
• Follow-up pilots with new projects
and activities to cement new ways of
working
• Look for examples of best agile
practice in your business, and bring
‘edge-leaders’ into the core
• Engage early with operations,
risk and legal
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14. Challenges to talent
and organisational
culture
• Permanent employees feel
threatened when activities are
outsourced to the crowd
• The organisation feels like it is
losing control and ownership
of the solutions it delivers
• Ability to scale up and down
resource as demand varies
• Difficulty in attracting the right
talent quickly enough to solve
my problems
• Who in my organisation will be most
affected by crowdsourcing and are
they supportive?
• Do I understand where the crowd is
better-placed to answer questions
than my permanent staff?
• How can (and should) I enable my
employees to engage as part of the crowd?
• Where can the crowd be used best to
enable my employees to spend more
time on their highest value activities?
• How do the projects fit with our
strategy? What other impacts will
there be on our organisational
structure and talent?
• Identify clearly the boundaries between
‘business-as-usual’ projects and crowd
projects
• Encourage employees to participate in
the crowd to develop new skills and
experience – but set reasonable limits
• Encourage employees to collaborate
and work across organisational
boundaries – exploiting synergies and
different ways of thinking
• Identify similar historical projects
hosted by crowdsourcing platforms
and encourage employees to attempt
these challenges and learn from them
Difficulties associated
with outsourcing to
the crowd in
traditional ‘line’
organisations
• Working with the crowd
requires a different, more open
approach compared to more
traditional delivery methods
• Governance processes are set
up to deal with classic rather
than agile development
methodologies
• Wholesale changes to business
processes and assessment of
risk are difficult, if not
impossible
• What and where are the bottlenecks
in our business that would prevent or
inhibit crowd-based approaches?
• Where does good practice exist
already in our organisation?
• What will be the impact of
crowdsourcing on our legacy
approaches and systems?
• Focus internal teams on the bigger
picture – not just on the
crowdsourced task – and make them
responsible for and empowered to
deliver the integrated solution
• Identify ‘pilot’ activities at the edge of
the business that can be used as a
testbed for crowd-based development
approaches, and also to test risk issues
and appetite
• Follow-up pilots with new projects
and activities to cement new ways of
working
• Look for examples of best agile
practice in your business, and bring
‘edge-leaders’ into the core
• Engage early with operations,
risk and legal
Keeping hold of
confidential
information and
intellectual property,
and additional risks
associated with
using the crowd
• The creation of work products
by the crowd could lead to
intellectual property
infringement and reuse risks
• Crowd members are strangers
to the organisation, and have
not necessarily gone through
the same rigorous recruitment
process
• Misuse and leakage of data is
an increasingly large risk given
the increasing volumes of data
being used, produced and
stored by the crowd and
crowdsourcing platforms
Source: Deloitte
• Have we identified the potential risks,
and do we have a plan to mitigate them?
• Have we made security and privacy a
priority?
• Do we control or understand all of the
assets that the crowd will use in
generating their ideas and solutions?
Who has access to these?
• Do we understand the standard terms
and conditions of the contract with
the crowdsourcing platform provider?
• Have we thought about what our
customers think about our use of the
crowd and how are we engaging them?
• Before sending data to the crowd,
work to anonymise or obfuscate data
appropriately
• Break down problems into smaller,
discrete components to ensure they
are tackled systematically and carefully
– then integrate the solutions
• Draft a risk register and clear project
plan
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15. For centuries, traditional businesses have relied upon
closed approaches for their success: they recruit and retain
specialists, and then deepen their skills and experience
over the ensuing years; they develop proprietary tools,
tactics, techniques and procedures to help them do
business, drawing upon decades of project work and
intellectual property; they sell products and services that
evolve only gradually and compete in markets where
the competition is doing the same; and they build up a
protective armour of sorts, shielding themselves against
risk and change. Being closed, and keeping things ‘
in-house’, was simply the way that businesses worked.
Failures could be kept locked up; credit for successes could
be clearly assigned.
But today’s dynamic operating environment demands a
different and more agile approach from businesses and
other organisations. And while some bold predictions
suggest that crowdsourcing will put an end to these
working conventions overnight, the reality is that the
crowd offers a practical way for enterprises to experiment,
to interact with the crowd and to offer faster, better, and
sometimes cheaper solutions. For individual workers, too,
crowdsourcing provides an opportunity to engage with
businesses in a new way, to work with experts from a
wide array of different fields, to develop new skills and
interests, and, if they so desire, to take on challenges with
a real social purpose.
Linus Pauling, the American scientist, author and educator,
said, “If you want to have good ideas you must have
many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you
have to learn is which ones to throw away.”74
As the
crowdsourcing ecosystem and the online population both
steadily build over the next few years, the opportunities
that exist for businesses and public sector organisations
to discover and develop “good ideas” will multiply rapidly.
As a consequence, organisations that fail to harness the
strength and diversity of the crowd, instead adopting
a ‘wait-and-see’ attitude, are likely to be overtaken by
stripped-down, more nimble organisations that appreciate
the shrinking half-life of knowledge and the power of
connectivity over in-house content.
For start-ups and entrepreneurs, interest in the
crowdsourcing space is growing rapidly. For legacy
organisations more averse to risk and experimentation,
the situation is not quite so certain. However, the stability
and scope of services now offered by today’s enterprise
crowd platforms should stir ever-greater numbers into
action. These organisations can start by identifying
specific opportunities where inherently closed approaches
to current challenges create bottlenecks to innovation,
slowing down processes and driving up costs. By solving
concrete – even if small – problems at their edges,
organisations can more effectively identify the technical,
organisational, cultural and talent changes necessary to
realise the broader benefits of crowdsourcing – and then
scale and repeat.
Ultimately, crowdsourcing is not just about greater access
to talent. It is also about tapping into new sources of data
and deeper pools of knowledge that cannot easily be
accessed by any other approach. Alongside technologies
like artificial intelligence and robotics, crowdsourcing looks
set to play a pivotal role in future business. It will affect the
way that workers and organisations interact, the way that
businesses engage with their customers and, ultimately,
the productivity and diversity of our economy.
From closed to open
“Challenges ask great questions. How can we do
something better? Open innovation is about asking to
do more with less, to do things better and faster and
to get a great diversity of insight.”
Matt Chapman 73
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16. Endnotes
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also: https://hbr.org/2013/04/using-the-crowd-as-an-innovation-partner/
2. “Weighing the World: The Quest to Measure the Earth”, Edwin Danson, Oxford University Press, 2006.
3. Ibid
4. “Longitude found: John Harrison”, Royal Museums Greenwich. See: http://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/longitude-found-john-
harrison
5. “John Harrison’s ‘longitude’ clock sets new record – 300 years on”, Steve Connor, The Independent, 18 April 2015. See also: http://
www.independent.co.uk/news/science/john-harrisons-longitude-clock-sets-new-record-300-years-on-10187304.html
6. “How the Oxford English Dictionary started out like Wikipedia”, Nate Lanxon, Wired.co.uk, 13 January 2011. See also: http://www.
wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/13/the-oxford-english-wiktionary
7. Ibid.
8. Wikipedia statistics from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics, accessed 24 March 2016.
9. “Corporate crowdsourcing”, IdeaConnection. See also: http://www.ideaconnection.com/crowdsourcing/
10. “On Language”, William Safire, New York Times Magazine, 5 February 2009.
11. “Crowdsourcing: A Definition”, Jeff Howe, Crowdsourcing Blog, 2 June 2006. See also: http://crowdsourcing.typepad.com/
cs/2006/06/crowdsourcing_a.html
12. See: http://lunar.xprize.org/
13. See: http://www.michelsonprizeandgrants.org/michelson-prize
14. See: https://longitudeprize.org/
15. See: http://www.lionbridge.com/
16. See: http://www.samasource.org/
17. See http://www.wikistrat.com/
18. See: https://www.onfrontiers.com/
19. See http://www.10eqs.com/
20. For example, see: https://www.experience.com/alumnus/article?channel_id=career_managementsource_page=additional_
articlesarticle_id=article_1247505066959
21. “Deloitte Millennial Survey 2016”, DTTL, February 2016. See also: http://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/
Documents/About-Deloitte/gx-millenial-survey-2016-exec-summary.pdf
22. “The State of Crowdsourcing in 2015: How the world’s biggest brands and companies are opening up to consumer creativity”,
eYeka, 9 April 2015. See also: https://en.eyeka.com/resources/analyst-reports#CSreport2015?utm_campaign=csrutm_
content=1utm_medium=actutm_source=prcutm_term=en
23. “Predicts 2015: Sourcing Strategies Shift From ‘Built to Last’ to ‘Built to Adapt’”, Gartner, Inc., 26 November 2014. See also: https://
www.gartner.com/doc/2925517/predicts--sourcing-strategies-shift
24. See: https://en.eyeka.com/
25. See: https://www.innocentive.com/
26. See: https://www.kaggle.com/
27. See: https://www.topcoder.com/
28. See: http://www.gigwalk.com/
29. See: https://www.upwork.com/
30. See: https://99designs.co.uk/
31. See: http://www.streetbees.com/
32. See: http://www.designcrowd.co.uk/
33. See: http://writology.com/
34. “The new meaning of ‘open source talent’”, CIO Journal by Wall Street Journal, 24 September 2013. See also: http://deloitte.wsj.
com/cio/2013/09/24/the-new-meaning-of-open-source-talent
35. “Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner”, Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani, Harvard Business Review, April 2013. See
also: https://hbr.org/2013/04/using-the-crowd-as-an-innovation-partner/
36. See: https://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=ComponentRecordbookc=overall_money
37. “The rise of crowdsourcing”, Jeff Howe, Wired, 6 January 2006. See also: http://www.wired.com/2006/06/crowds/
38. “Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business”, Jeff Howe, September 2009. A summary of the
book can be seen at: http://www.bizbriefings.com/Samples/IntInst%20---%20Crowdsourcing.PDF
39. See: http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/project/details/setilive
40. See: https://www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9933816
41. A widely cited problem-based crowdsourcing typology is that proposed in the book: “Crowdsourcing”, by Daren Brabham,
published in 2013. His typology can also be seen at: http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2013/11/14/daren-brabham-crowdsourcing-
typology/
42. For types of crowdsourcing task are proposed in Jeff Howe’s book: “Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the
Future of Business”, Jeff Howe, Crown Business, September 2009.
43. For an example of a platform-based typology, see: “Ross Dawson: Six tools to kickstart your crowdsourcing strategy”, Neil Davey,
MyCustomer.com, 1 July 2010. See also: http://www.mycustomer.com/marketing/strategy/ross-dawson-six-tools-to-kickstart-your-
crowdsourcing-strategy
44. See: https://www.taskrabbit.com/m/tasks
45. See: https://www.kaggle.com/
46. See: http://www.pgconnectdevelop.com/
47. See: https://www.collaborationjam.com/
48. See: http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/#trend
49. See: http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users-by-country/
50. Ibid.
51. Number of mobile phone users worldwide from http://www.statista.com/statistics/274774/forecast-of-mobile-phone-users-
worldwide/
52. Ibid.
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17. 53. “Education 2030 Framework for Action – Towards inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all”, UNESCO,
December 2015. See also: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002432/243278e.pdf
54. Bill Joy quote - “How fast can you learn?”, Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 9 November 2007. See also: http://www.forbes.com/
forbes/2007/1126/031.html
55. “Benefits of Crowdsourcing”, Vivek Wadhwa, The Wall Street Journal, 29 October 2014. See also: http://www.wsj.com/articles/
benefits-of-crowdsourcing-1414625224
56. “Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner”, Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani, Harvard Business Review, April 2013. See
also: https://hbr.org/2013/04/using-the-crowd-as-an-innovation-partner/
57. Ibid.
58. See: https://www.clickworker.com/
59. See: http://www.gigwalk.com/
60. See: https://www.onfrontiers.com/
61. See: http://www.wikistrat.com/
62. “Creativity Is Not Enough”, Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business Review, August 2002. See also: https://hbr.org/2002/08/creativity-is-
not-enough
63. “How crowdsourcing can make products better, cheaper, faster: Lessons from a military-led amphibious tank project”, Professor
Howard Yu, IMD. See also: http://www.imd.org/research/challenges/TC005-16-darpa-yu.cfm
64. “This is the Million-Dollar Design for DARPA’s Crowdsourced Swimming Tank”, Spencer Ackerman, Wired, April 2013. See also:
http://www.wired.com/2013/04/darpa-fang-winner/
65. “Step inside an inventor’s playground”, Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 9 October 2015. See also: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/09/living/
tech-shop-mike-rowe-somebodys-gotta-do-it/
66. “Predicting liability for injury from car accidents”, Kaggle. See also: http://www.kaggle.com/solutions/casestudies/allstate
67. See: http://www.crowdsource.com/solutions/copywriting-services/product-descriptions/
68. See: https://blog.taskrabbit.com/category/task-ideas-tips/
69. See: https://hrtechadvisor.com/springrole-brings-crowdsourcing-gamification-recruiting/
70. “Thomson Reuters uncovers internal engineering talent with crowdsourcing”, Nicole Laskowski, TechTarget, April 2014. See also:
http://searchcio.techtarget.com/opinion/Thomson-Reuters-flushes-out-internal-engineering-talent-with-crowdsourcing
71. “A Tongal-produced ad scores a Super Bowl touchdown,” Peter Diamandis, Huffington Post, March 4, 2013. See also: http://www.
huffingtonpost.com/peter-diamandis/a-tongal-produced-ad-scor_b_2806396.html
72. “Editorial: The Role of Information Systems in Enabling Open Innovation”, Whelan, E., Conboy, K., Crowston, K., Morgan, L., Rossi,
M., Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Volume 15, Special Issue, November 2014. See also: http://aisel.aisnet.org/
cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1692context=jais
73. “13 revealing quotes on open innovation in humanitarian organisations”, Lauren Parater, UNHCR Innovation, 3 August 2015. See
also: http://innovation.unhcr.org/13-revealing-quotes-on-open-innovation-in-humanitarian-organizations/
74. “The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology”, Francis Crick, The Pauling Symposium 1995, Oregon State University. See also:
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/Special_Collections/subpages/ahp/1995symposium/crick.html
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18. Vimi Grewal-Carr
Managing Partner for Innovation
+44 (0)20 7303 7859
vgrewalcarr@deloitte.co.uk
Carl Bates
Partner, Lead for Crowdsourcing
+44 (0)20 7007 7590
carbates@deloitte.co.uk
Greg Howard
Deloitte Pixel Lead
+44 (0)20 7303 8225
grhoward@deloitte.co.uk
Harvey Lewis
Director of Insight
+44 (0)20 7303 6805
harveylewis@deloitte.co.uk
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