{"id":50,"date":"2006-07-25T10:39:47","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T02:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=50"},"modified":"2006-11-03T11:36:45","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T03:36:45","slug":"when-crowd-sourcing-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"When crowd sourcing works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HBS Working Knowledge has an <a href=\"http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/item\/5462.html\">article on user led innovation \/ crowdsourcing<\/a>.  There has been a lot of discussion about the trend, and I maintain that for a small-medium company the process is generally expensive and time consuming.<\/p>\n<p>However this article  &#8211; which focusses on white water kayaking &#8211; makes an excellent point about the concept : <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For user innovation to be a force, the cost of creating a new design must be within the reach of a single user, whose reward is solely the improvement of his or her own experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an extremely important point which is missing from much of the conversation about crowdsourcing.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jfoto.com\/Images\/Jshotz\/Kayak\/Crystal%20all%20V%20copy.jpg\" alt=\"Airtime\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBS Working Knowledge has an article on user led innovation \/ crowdsourcing. There has been a lot of discussion about the trend, and I maintain that for a small-medium company the process is generally expensive and time consuming. However this article &#8211; which focusses on white water kayaking &#8211; makes an excellent point about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-processes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}