Crowdcast is a powerful tool, producing unbiased, timely forecasts of your most important metrics. Controlling access to these crowd forecasts is key as the metrics may well be different from the “official” forecasts. For example, in a project management setting, the crowdcast may indicate that a key milestone will slip. Planned date = Jan 15, [...]

Earlier this summer I posted about our project with The Good Judgment Team on pushing the boundaries of forecasting methodologies.  I’m thrilled to say that a week ago, we went live, with more than 3,000 participants worldwide making forecasts and, in some cases, arguments, about the future of political, economic, and technological trends.  To date, [...]

Crowdcast is all about bringing the power of collective intelligence to bear on real business metrics.  Most of the time we’re practitioners, working with clients to apply our technology and knowledge to their challenges in project risk management and sales metrics.  Every once in a while, though, we get a great opportunity to step back [...]

My apologies for the radio silence on this blog of late.  We’ve been heads down busy with a big round of funding, some major product enhancements, and releasing a new look and way of talking about what we do.  I promise you’ll be hearing a lot more from us on this blog, so stay tuned. [...]

Watch Andy McAfee, one of the most influential management science thinkers, weigh in on the importance and value of collective intelligence in the enterprise.

A couple weeks back I wrote about our “new mech” project, a wholesale redesign and reimplementation of our knowledge aggregation mechanism. In this post I will talk about why traditional project management techniques failed us and how Crowdcast helped us to recover. As I mentioned last time, our initial attempt at running the project revolved [...]

In the New York Times’ weekly Corner Office column, the January 16th interviewee was Cristobal Conde of Fortune 500 company, SunGard. He spoke to the collaborative management methodologies that had been instilled at his company and how they altered their day-to-day workflow. Among other tactics, Conde mentions cutting back on micromanaging and using Yammer, a [...]