Crowdsourcing

“Crowdsourcing” is a relatively recent concept that encompasses many practices. To a superficial analysis, it could result just as the outsourcing of tasks to a large group of people, instead of assigning such tasks to an in-house employee or contractor. But in my opinion, there is more to it. We have to consider it as a strategic model to attract an interested and motivated crowd of individuals, capable of providing solutions superior in quality and quantity to those that even traditional forms

Crowdsourcing has been around for years, yet we are now learning more about it through social media and various advertisement platforms. Since 2002, crowdsourcing has been helping small businesses flourish lucratively and still remain affordable. Crowdsourcing is used and has been used to connect labor demand and supply. From focus groups to online contests, crowdsourcing, crowd funding, crowd voting, crowd collaboration and so forth, continues to grow larger and even more popular. Crowdsourcing

Stephanie Lee Ethics of Crowdsourcing ‘Crowdsourcing’; Innovation or Exploitation? Abstract Crowdsourcing is the concept of mass collaboration of external outsourced tasks typically from an institution to its community (Howe, 2005). This paper explores the two sides of crowd sourcing; whether this net-enabled community collaboration is accelerating innovation or exploiting the laborers with menial tasks of little to no benefit through an analysis of Soylent, one of the latest innovations

MIS Management Information System Crowdsourcing at AOL Case Analysis 1. A brief analysis of the case study AOL engaged in what is called “micro-tasking”, and is believed to revolutionize the virtual workforce. Micro-tasking is what Daniel Maloney, an AOL executive, applied when he was faced with inventorying a vast video library. He broke the large job into small pieces and utilized a crowdsourcing IT platform, Mechanical Turk, in order to describe each task that he required to be done. Each

CROWDSOURCING IN PRODUCT DESIGN FROM A MARKETING PERSPECTIVE ABSTRACT Crowdsourcing is the practice of outsourcing tasks including a form of compensation to a wide external group of people. It is a newly used term which refers to the process of obtaining services, ideas, or content by seeking contributions from a large group of people particularly from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Multiple types of businesses nowadays are using crowdsourcing for a

to gain more support from people that would not normally support them. It gives organizations a quicker, cheaper way to get themselves known in the community. Recently crowdsourcing like Kickstarter has become a way for organizations to fundraise money. This research paper will explore the positives and negatives of crowdsourcing as a way for organizations to raise money. The primary article that this paper will focus on is called “Fundraising: Oui or Non?” by Michael Kasier. In this article Kasier

Crowdsourcing Case Study 1. Is crowdsourcing as used by AOL a form of outsourcing? Why or why not? Yes, I consider that crowdsourcing is one of the forms of outsourcing. Crowdsourcing is nothing but the process of getting the required services, ideas and also the information by seeking the contributions from a huge group of people mainly from an online community but not the local or general employees or suppliers. Whereas outsourcing, in business involves the contracting out of business process

difference between internal and external crowdsourcing can be summarized as follows: i) the internal crowd (employees) is known to the firm; ii) the crowd can be all employees of the firm, a subsidiary of the firm, or may also include partners and suppliers; iii) the crowd is specifically used for problem solving or aggregating ideas for innovation purposes; and iv) the crowd may also be anyone with internet or mobile remote access capable of participating in a crowdsourcing contest and vote on the ideas of

Most crowdsourcing platform implementation projects fail. To succeed, therefore, requires understanding of the importance of crowdsourcing platform as a strategic tool and the need for its continuous review throughout development and implementation phases. One of the critical success factors is the design of a robust revenue-generating infrastructure powered by a secure user and customer authenticated e-commerce engine. A crowdsourcing platform development is an investment at risk. The cost of development

Final Year Project 1 - Web based micro crowdfunding system for startup company Chapter 1 Introduction Background Crowdsourcing is an alternative of solving problems and getting something done by connecting with a large targeted group of people online via Internet whether look for extra knowledge, resources or expertise in advanced. Crowdsourcing is not new with the time being as beforehand we often look for collaboration with a specific group of people verbally. In other hand, crowdfunding is a