Innovation Strategy
Our Guide to the Summer 2020 Issue
MIT SMR summer 2020 highlights leadership and innovation strategies, employee morale, and data sharing.
Crowdsourcing
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Analytics & Business Intelligence
How Swarm Intelligence Blends Global and Local Insight
Swarm systems draw input from individuals and use algorithms to optimize system performance in real time.
Mark Purdy, Ray Eitel-Porter, and Max Klymenko
AI & Machine Learning
The Best of This Week
Looking back on disruptive innovation theory and preparing for smarter crowdsourcing.
The MIT SMR Editors
Innovation Strategy
Make Your Crowd Smart
Solving complex problems with crowdsourcing means tailoring the crowd to the problem’s scope.
Christoph Riedl, Victor P. Seidel, Anita W. Woolley, and Gerald C. Kane
Collaboration
Developing Innovative Solutions Through Internal Crowdsourcing
If managed well, internal crowdsourcing initiatives can open up a rich source of innovation.
Arvind Malhotra, Ann Majchrzak, Lâle Kesebi, and Sean Looram
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Improving Analytics Capabilities Through Crowdsourcing
Open-innovation platforms, used thoughtfully, can expand a company’s access to analytics talent.
Joseph Byrum and Alpheus Bingham
Collaboration
How Crowdfunding Influences Innovation
Crowdfunding backers are important for the feedback, ideas, and word of mouth they provide to entrepreneurs.
Michael A. Stanko and David H. Henard
Collaboration
Crowd-Based Capitalism? Empowering Entrepreneurs in the Sharing Economy
Peer-to-peer businesses are shaking up fundamental assumptions about how the economy works.
Arun Sundararajan (New York University Stern School of Business), interviewed by Gerald C. Kane
Digital Marketing
Using Social Media in Business Disputes
“Lawsourcing” campaigns are helping smaller organizations advance legal and public relations goals.
David Orozco
Collaboration
Leveraging the Extended Enterprise: MITRE’s Handshake Tool Builds Virtual Collaboration
A social business tool is helping U.S. government agencies crowdsource collaboration.
Donna Cuomo, Laurie Damianos and Stan Drozdetski (MITRE), interviewed by Gerald C. Kane
New Product Development
How Procter & Gamble Uses External Ideas For Internal Innovation
P&G’s open innovation program nurtures collaboration with individuals and companies globally.
Leslie Brokaw
Global Strategy
Managing the Human Cloud
Tapping a virtual, on-demand workforce requires new management models and skills.
Evgeny Kaganer, Erran Carmel, Rudy Hirschheim and Timothy Olsen
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Business Quandary? Use a Competition to Crowdsource Best Answers
An Interview with Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle.
Anthony Goldbloom (Kaggle Inc.), interviewed by Renee Boucher Ferguson
Collaboration
The Collective Intelligence Genome
Large, loosely organized groups of people can work together electronically in surprisingly effective ways.
Thomas W. Malone, Robert Laubacher and Chrysanthos Dellarocas
Business Models
“Crowd funding” As Emerging Trend
What’s “crowd funding”? It involves consumers investing small amounts of money (as little as $1) in businesses whose products they fancy.
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