Archive for the “conference” Category

Forecasting Clinical Ops Metrics

Posted on February 3rd, 2012 by mat

Next week we will be attending the SCOPE conference in Miami. Primarily serving clients in clinical operations in pharma and biotech companies, the conference is concerned with improving metrics, forecasts and management of clinical trials. Building on our success with Genentech, we are looking forward to learning more about this opportunity and how Crowdcast can [...]

E2.0 Adoption Market Winner Has Pulse On Community Sentiment

Posted on April 21st, 2010 by mat

Last October, we partnered with Susan Scrupski, founder of the Adoption Council, to launch the Adoption Index Prediction Market, a space for the E2.0 community to forecast key industry trends. The current leader in the market is Samuel Driessen, an Information Architect at Océ, a 22,000-employee provider of digital document management technology and services. In [...]

Drinking the Kool Aid, part 3

Posted on March 21st, 2010 by mat

I wrote about our own experience with Crowdcast here and here. My main thesis was that, in order to be viable, collective intelligence tools must support decision makers first and foremost. After all, it’s their challenges we’re striving to address. This realization was the impetus behind our Executive Dashboard, which I describe here and also [...]

Rational Exuberance

Posted on August 12th, 2008 by mat

Back in May I attended a conference organized by the Corporate Executive Board. I was on a panel with Nate from Inkling about using Prediction Markets in corporations. Lots of fun. After my talk, Mr Greenspan slipped me a few ideas for prediction markets which we are now incorporating into the product. Stay tuned for [...]