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4 Mistakes That Kill Crowdsourcing Efforts

Harvard Business

Likewise, Quirky tried to manufacture the products its community conceived rather than find expert low cost producers. Firms launching new products today use Alibaba, an effective platform, to find low cost manufacturers with competitive bids. Alibaba makes none of these new products but instead facilitates the match.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.