Which IT Projects are Best For Crowdsourcing?
You and your colleagues work together inside the four walls of your company. You have projects that require expertise in several areas.
The problem is that the smartest person in your field invariably works somewhere else.
What does that mean for you?
If you’re in charge of completing a
project, it means that YOU have to find that expert.
You’ll probably have better luckfinding a needle ina haystack.
So.... What CAN you do?
1. Spend precious time and resources trying to locate and hire the experts you need.
2. Outsource your project with the hope they successfully complete it on time.
3. Crowdsource your project.
What is crowdsourcing
exactly?
Well, it's the process of sourcing needed data science, application
development, and design skills (among other
expertise) by soliciting contributions from a
distributed set of experts that can number in the hundreds of thousands.
?Sowhat kind of projects lend themselves to
crowdsourcing.
?Great question.
Projects with one or more of these traits fit the bill:• are well defined.
• can be broken down into smaller parts – granularized or atomized.
• a required skilled set is in short supply.
• there is excessive demand on your company’s limited talent supply.
• you don’t know how to approach a problem.
• enable paradigm shifts in your industry or the way you approach specific challenges.
• need to be finished quickly.
Let’s look at these more
closely.
WELL DEFINED
&
GRANULARIZED
Well Defined & Granularized
A well-defined project is a natural fit for crowdsourcing.
Well Defined & Granularized
Well Defined & Granularized
Well-defined criteria
allow you to granularize your project. This is
very important.
Well Defined & Granularized
Granularization means that the the Community’s top experts
in a specific area will be able to contribute to the parts of the project
where they bring the most value.
Well Defined & Granularized
This allows you to get the best
possible outcome for each aspect of your project,
enabling maximum success for the entire solution.
Well Defined & Granularized
Well Defined & Granularized
Granular projects are likely to finish faster. Only each
individual piece needs to be solved at once. No
single community member takes on the whole.
FASTER &
FASTER
Faster & Faster
No one wants to . . . wait for a project to
be finished.
Faster & Faster
Let’s get on with it. Your boss is
waiting.
Faster & Faster
Crowdsourcing is fast because it allows its problem
solvers (the Community) to work in parallel rather in traditional sequential
innovation.
What does that mean??Faster & Faster
Faster & Faster
It means that with granular pieces each contributing to the whole, the Community can focus on many different problems at once rather than one after the other.
Faster & Faster
Those pieces are then put
back together to get an entire solution to your project quickly.
WHEN PARTICULAR SKILLS ARE IN
SHORT SUPPLY
When a particular skill is in short supply
Imagine you’re looking for a team of expert iOS developers to complete a project
quickly.
When a particular skill is in short supply
Good luck.
When a particular skill is in short supply
When a particular skill is in short supply
Finding, hiring, and onboarding this new team of experts will
take up valuable time that you don’t
have.
When a particular skill is in short supply
When a particular skill is in short supply
The reality is that the best team of iOS developers is spread around the world — one in Palo Alto,
two in Seattle, one in India, and one in Romania.
When a particular skill is in short supplyWhen a particular skill is in short supply
By crowdsourcing, you’re able to use
globally dispersed expert resources at the exact
time or moment needed to keep your project
moving forward.
When a particular skill is in short supply
Talent supply
shortage solved.
WHEN THERE IS EXCESS DEMAND ON YOUR TALENT
SUPPLY
In some instances, your company may have the skills to complete a project, but you’re overextended.
When there is Excessive Demand on Your Talent Supply
Crowdsourcing lets you tap
into additional experts
whenever you want and
however much you want.
When there is Excessive Demand on Your Talent SupplyWhen there is Excessive Demand on Your Talent Supply
Your demand can move
UP or DOWNas you like with no penalties or
additional costs.
This is a perfect example of where
crowdsourcing can complement
your skills and work with your internal teams.
COMMUNITY
When there is Excessive Demand on Your Talent Supply
WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO
SOLVE A PROBLEM OR YOU NEED A
PARADIGM SHIFT
When You Don’t Know How to Solve a Problem or Need a Paradigm Shift
You may know that you have
a problem, but figuring out how to solve it is another
story.
When You Don’t Know How to Solve a Problem or Need a Paradigm Shift
Simply define your problem and then leverage the
community’s expertise to get innovative solutions to your
problem that never occurred to you.
When You Don’t Know How to Solve a Problem or Need a Paradigm Shift
How would you like to change
the fundamentals of genomics
research? Harvard did using
crowdsourcing.
When You Don’t Know How to Approach / Solve a Problem
How would you like to change
the way that the International Space
Station captures energy in space? NASA did using crowdsourcing.
When You Don’t Know How to Solve a Problem or Need a Paradigm Shift
When You Don’t Know How to Approach / Solve a Problem
How about replacing TCPIP for space
missions because it doesn’t work well
over great distances in space? NASA is doing that using crowdsourcing.
When You Don’t Know How to Solve a Problem or Need a Paradigm Shift
When You Don’t Know How to Solve a Problem or Need a Paradigm Shift
These projects yield amazing
results to extremely
difficult questions.
Projects That Enable Paradigm ShiftsProjects That Enable Paradigm Shifts
They come up with new and profound ways of looking at a problem and solving it, especially when conventional thinking
has not made significant progress.
When You Don’t Know How to Approach / Solve a ProblemWhen You Don’t Know How to Solve a Problem or Need a Paradigm Shift
Your company may
have such challenges
too.
To review, if your project has these characteristics, crowdsourcing may be the right solution• Granularization• Need for speed• Short supply of talent• Excessive demand on talent• No clear solution to the problem• Paradigm shifts — thinking big
Crowdsourcing may be new to you.
But it’s the way of the
future.
According to Gartner: * By 2016, application service
providers will have replaced 20% of their internal application management staff with crowdsourcing.
* By 2017, 60% of technology product companies will engage their targeted consumer segments through crowdsourcing.
We know that getting started with
crowdsourcing may be
daunting.
Appirio is here to help frame your problems, issue appropriate challenges, and assemble your confidential
solutions.
The best part is you only pay for results and for the best solutions – not for time.
With our crowdsourcing community, built on the world’s most advanced
global innovation platform, we are here to address all your crowdsourcing needs.
Please contact us today to get started!
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