Contents
Question 1 3- Ways in which decision making is improvised using collective intelligence? 3
- What technologies will you implement for which set of users and for which contributions from them? 5
- What are the Critical success factors? 7
- Question 2 8
- Describe in detail how in the normative decision model crowdsourcing is being used and the role of technology 8
- Describe which conventional decision-making process or distortions are being overcome through crowdsourcing in the article 11
- In general, discuss and evaluate the objections and resistance to using outsourcing for making decisions 13
- References 16
Description
This paper answers the following 2 questions -
Question - 1 - Collaboration Within the Firm
You are in-charge of medium-large organization in an industry of your choosing. Select one key area of business decision making which you think can benefit from the use of collaboration tools such as social networking, wikis, blogs, forums, voting and so on.
1) Describe in detail how you will improve decision making through collective intelligence.
2) What technologies will you implement, for which sets of users and for which contributions from them?
3) What are the critical success factors?
Question -2 - Crowdsourcing beyond the firm
Choose a story or article about crowdsourcing from an online journal, newspaper, magazine or website
1) Describe in detail how in the normative decision model crowdsourcing is being used and the role of technology.
2) Describe which conventional decision making problems or distortions are being overcome through crowdsourcing in the article.
3) In general, discuss and evaluate the objections and resistance to using crowdsourcing for making decisions.
