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 [...]

Internal prediction markets enable colleagues to wager on the fate of crucial projects and the success of products in the pipeline. Thursday, December 9, 2010 By Chris Taylor The need to predict the future, as exciting as it sounds, crops up in corporate life in terribly mundane ways. Case in point: large videogame companies need [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]