Crowdsourcing? Try expert sourcing

Courtesy ZDNET - Between the Lines  Mon, 10/06/2008 - 5:32am

Corporate America has hopped on the crowd sourcing bandwagon, but they may want to start considering another option: Expert sourcing.

That’s one of the big takeaways from a report by Forrester Research. Forrester analyst Chris Townsend writes: Corporate use of Innovation Networks is rapidly expanding as many fast followers adopt them.

The result? Organizations are now managing [...]


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