Managing Knowledge and Collaboration -Crowdsourcing

1.How would you define Crowdsourcing? 2.Why does crowdsourcing require a large, undefined community to work? Why not a small, defined community of passionate people who you know and have worked with before or with whom you are already friends? 3. Can you think of other examples of crowdsourcing besides photography? Is photography a good example? What kinds of products or services might not lend themselves to crowdsourcing? 4.What is the impact of crowdsourcing on business? 5. Why does the IdeaScale video criticize online surveys? What is wrong with online surveys? How doeas Ideal Scale do any better? 6. IdealScale claims to produce “actionable” ideas when compared to traditional market feedback mechanism like online surveys, focus groups, and review of customers comments on Web sites. Do you think this might be true? 7.Pick an online product or service you would like to deliver as a business firm. Outline how you would use IdealScale. How would you select the people for your online community? How would you prompt them to participate? What new ideas would you propose them? Or what questions would you ask them to respond to? Answers 1)Crowdsourcing is like a distributed problem-solving system in which tasks are being outsourcing to a number of people referred to as the crowd. So the problems are broadcasted to the crowd maybe via Internet where voluntary and ordinary people can give their contribution to the finding of solutions for that particular task. 2) The person who you think that might best does the job isn’t always the one doing the right job. So that’s why usually the outsourcing goes to an undefined large crowd rather than employees of your organization. It is an interesting approach thinking that the audience you were once serving is actually part of your organization,