Archive for October, 2009

Q&A with Susan Scrupski: Measuring 2.0 Adoption with Crowdcast

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by brooke

Enterprise technologies are always a hot topic – especially when it comes down to predicting their adoption rate and how they will change the future of the business operations. This week we had the opportunity to sit down with Susan Scrupski, founder of the 2.0 Adoption Council, which is a peer-based, information-sharing group of global [...]

Risky Business

Posted on October 27th, 2009 by mat

“Risky” and “business” are two words that don’t go well together, unless you’re talking about mid-80s Tom Cruise movies. Ventana Research just posted some great insights about how exactly companies are using new technologies, such as prediction markets and crowdsourcing, to manage risk and harness collective intelligence from employees who understand possible pitfalls but may [...]

CFO Readers on Track to Win the World Series! Yankees All the Way?

Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by brooke

After last night’s nail-biting comeback by the Angels, the road to the World Series got a bit rockier. We checked in with the baseball fans over at CFO’s Prediction Market, who have been forecasting which team out of all the playoff teams will win the series and, despite the Angels’ surge last night, bets are [...]

The Pharma Industry Goes to Market

Posted on October 19th, 2009 by leslie

Pharma professionals, we want your input! Last week, our team and several MIT and Harvard professors got together at the Eye for Pharma Conference to launch the Pharmer’s Market – a new prediction market focusing on the likelihood of breast cancer drugs passing through the phases of drug clinical trials, which is open to every [...]