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Week 10 –Crowdsourcing MIS5001: Management Information Systems

Today’s Agenda

  Case Discussion

  Blog Discussion Question   Reading Discussion   Activity: Crowdsource This!

Case Study Discussion

 Describe the basic business model of TopCoder.  What makes TopCoder successful?  Hughes wants to grow revenue to $200 million. Is

this realistic?  Use TopCoder and globalization in the same

sentence.  How does TopCoder manage the “Community”?

Where is there room for improvement?

100-Second Reflection

1.  What would you like to remember at the end of the semester about the TopCoder case?

2.  What would you like to know more about?

3.  Any other comments?

Blog Discussion

  Wikipedia, Yelp, and Amazon Reviews   When do they work?   When do they fail?

Wisdom of the Crowds

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z82B1zsvyZU

Reading: Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing

  Open Innovation   Open Platforms   Crowdsourcing

Activity: Crowdsource This!

  Form Groups of 2-3

  Pick a job or major job role one of you does:   Identify at least one major component of that job that could be

crowdsourced.   Of the crowdsourcing models we’ve read about, what would

work best for the target job task?   Do you think it is a good idea? Why or why not?

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