It’s 2010, the start of a new year as well as a new decade. Many people are setting goals. Some people are not.

Does goal-setting really matter? I think it does matter, especially in a team or group of people involved in a project. How else would the group know where it is going? But again, non-goal-setters may ask, “Is it necessary for a group to know where it is going?” Again, I think it is necessary and does matter.

Anyway, in the context of goal setting, there seems to be two types of goal… Continue

A Blue Ocean vision of making smarter and faster decisions everywhere

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How can we make smarter and faster decisions everywhere?

According to James Surowiecki in his book, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” the answer may lie in harnessing collective wisdom or the wisdom of crowds. Well, what if we could access online the Wisdom of the World (WoW) for decisions involving businesses, products, services, places, and even personalities? Wouldn’t smarter and faster decisions on everything be just a… Continue

A Perspective from Wisdomsourcing

"What is the most important question in business?”

The answer: it depends on whom you ask in the business’s value chain or network. In other words, the answer largely depends on the perspective of the responder.

About two years ago, Brett Nelson wrote in Forbes.com an article, “The 20 Most Important Questions in Business.” Nelson, whose article was directed at entrepreneurs, noted that the “single most important question of the bunch” is: What is your… Continue

Tools for Collaborative Problem Solving, Strategy, and Innovation

Of questions that keep coming up with regard to the Wisdomsourcing Project, the most frequent are:

* What is Wisdomsourcing?

* How is Wisdomsourcing different from Crowdsourcing and Brainstorming?

Given the frequency of the above questions, I decided to summarize - on a single page - the similarities and differences in the tools of brainstorming, crowdsourcing, and wisdomsourcing.

Here's the 1-page summary:… Continue

What is the level of quality of existing crowdsourcing tools: low, moderate, high, or extraordinary quality?

Thanks to all those who have participated in completing the survey for task 1 of the Wisdomsourcing Project. The responses are of high quality. Many of the submitted tools for crowdsourcing fall under the category of "Education/News/Tips-Crowdsourcers." The next three most populous categories are follows:

* Photo/Music/Film/Games/Entertainment-Crowdsourcers

* Graphic Design/Adve… Continue