Comments on: Crowdsourcing vs staffsourcing http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2007/08/29/crowdsourcing-vs-staffsourcing/ Thoughts on technology and society Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:16:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: laurent http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2007/08/29/crowdsourcing-vs-staffsourcing/#comment-1324 laurent Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:12:24 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2007/08/29/crowdsourcing-vs-staffsourcing/#comment-1324 Good point. There is a lot of value in using the crowds to "augment" an idea. Good point. There is a lot of value in using the crowds to “augment” an idea.

]]> By: Kåre Mulvad http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2007/08/29/crowdsourcing-vs-staffsourcing/#comment-1323 Kåre Mulvad Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:42:48 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2007/08/29/crowdsourcing-vs-staffsourcing/#comment-1323 On last days Sunrise event by Connecta, there was a similar discussion. And I tend to agree with you - real breaktrhough ideas may for most cases not come from the crowd. As one of the attendees said "I bet electricity wasn't invented by the crowds.." And this is true for most major inventions through out time. But most companies arn't out developing the next invention of all time - they are simply trying to jumpstart the creative process by the simple princip of more ideas are better than few. Innovation centers like IDEO and The Ideafactory works by thees simple rules as well, developing everything from hairdryers to the next cool web2.x app. Infact here in Denmark, companies like Socialsquare.dk are also providing tools for such crowd wishdom... On last days Sunrise event by Connecta, there was a similar discussion. And I tend to agree with you - real breaktrhough ideas may for most cases not come from the crowd. As one of the attendees said “I bet electricity wasn’t invented by the crowds..” And this is true for most major inventions through out time.

But most companies arn’t out developing the next invention of all time - they are simply trying to jumpstart the creative process by the simple princip of more ideas are better than few. Innovation centers like IDEO and The Ideafactory works by thees simple rules as well, developing everything from hairdryers to the next cool web2.x app.

Infact here in Denmark, companies like Socialsquare.dk are also providing tools for such crowd wishdom…

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