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02/08/07 | Report as spam
Crowdsourcing
It is inspiring to read about crowdsourcing. The examples given were excellent. Cheap solutions to presing problems can be gained through this process. But I think managers must be open and who has the enterprenurial sprit could only can do this.
Bhadra Arachchige
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02/15/07 | Report as spam
original?
The generic idea behind the solutions to these examples are centuries old. Using dandy words like ?crowdsourcing? to describe what is basically a common sense approach to problem solving is worth as much as banana money!
Re the Pringles potato chips: 40% increase in innovations means little if it does not result in higher sales or that it makes the chips taste better. No mention was made of this in the example. So what evidence actually exists that these solutions achieved anything at all other than to promote an old age thing.
The second idea on sales reporting is not original. It?s been going on for years in Australia.
The T-shirt company example is not an original idea. When I worked for the New Zealand Railways in 1975 this practice was actually quite common.
Can a dinosaur teach new tricks?
On the closely related subject of success there are three things that determine success:
1. You must have an idea. Without an idea you won?t be going anywhere.
2. You must have the skills or ability to realise the idea. If you don?t have the skills to realise an idea then the idea will die. University education is supposed to give us the sills and abilities for success.
However, these two elements alone are not enough in themselves to ensure success. Only in very rare cases can one achieve success with only these two elements.
There is one more requirement that makes or breaks all and that is:
3. A door must be open. You can have the greatest ideas and all the skills and ?entrepreneurial spirit? in the world, but if a door is not opened you won?t be going anywhere.
- There are those with great skills and ideas but doors are closed forever. Without water a plant will die quickly.
- There are those who have no idea and no skills but doors are opened for them for various reasons. A lot of people achieve success this way and we know them well. Some call themselves ?entrepreneurial?.
- There are also those who enjoy closing doors to those with ideas and skills.
The world has worked this way for centuries and more so today.
So it is to the people who open doors who are the true entrepreneurs and the best people.
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08/07/07 | Report as spam
I could't agree more ...
Namely I really liked your "- There are also those who enjoy closing doors to those with ideas and skills." Is it a matter of organizational sadism? Yes, very often it is!
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02/12/08 | Report as spam
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I suggest a few changes to your line of reasoning:
1. You do not need a university education to acquire the skills and abilities. It is certainly nice, but it is not a must-have.
2. Entrepreneurs make their own doors and open them, or look until they find an open door.
3. Skills and abilities aren't going to get you very far without the means (i.e. the time and $) and motivation.
I've watched many skilled and able people give up without giving their ideas sufficient time to take root and grow. Some for financial reasons, and others because they simply lacked the motivation and desire to continue.
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02/13/08 | Report as spam
I agree, in part
I agree with your first assertion that these ideas are somewhat repackaged (as are virtually all management ideas these days), although many businesses lose sight of the power of the customer, so I think these examples are worth understanding.
The second half of your post sounds like a cynical personal philosophy that you want to extend to the rest of the world. Is this driven by your own bitter experience in business? Doors will eventually open to great ideas that are brought by skilled and persistent entrepreneurs. Of course many good ideas are rejected initially and repeatedly, but if an idea is truly great (and its time has come), it will find its way into the marketplace.
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02/27/07 | Report as spam
crowdsourcing via www
Wow! I have been using it for the last 4 years without noticing it.
Got new insights... congratulations
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03/08/07 | Report as spam
Boeing
What costing syetem did boeing use
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02/12/08 | Report as spam
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