Archive for the “Mechanism” Category

Not Your Average Prediction Market

Posted on April 2nd, 2010 by matt

Dr. Ajit Kambil, Global Research Director of Deloitte, authored an interesting piece on the use of prediction markets by CFOs. He presents a nice summary of how prediction markets work and their benefits — that they are a great way to aggregate dispersed insights and capture information that changes over time. Some implementations of prediction [...]

Drinking the Kool-Aid, part 2

Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by matt

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 [...]