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, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]