In our turbulent times, the ability to clearly recognize and react to enterprise risk represents a key competitive advantage. One characteristic of effective enterprise risk management is a risk-aware culture – but this is often cited as a significant challenge to building an effective ERM program. All employees within an organization – regardless of title, [...]

Think about the last time you made an online purchase – did you read reviews on Amazon? If you were buying on eBay, did you check out the seller’s rating before hitting ‘bid?’ Look up a restaurant on Yelp? If someone used an unfamiliar term in a conversation, did you check out Wikipedia to learn [...]

Last month, many of the Crowdcast crew went to Enterprise 2.0 in Boston.  Thanks to the generosity of Samuel Driessen, the 2.0 Adoption Council, and the organizers of the conference, Mary Abraham got to go as well.  Mary writes a great blog, called  Above and Beyond KM: A discussion of knowledge management that goes above and [...]

Operational risk is the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or filed internal processes, people, and systems, or from external events. While this definition has its roots in banking (Basel II), companies across industries are starting to take risk mitigation much more seriously. Operational risks take many forms. Brand managers bringing new products to market [...]

Corporations are not architected for growth, but for execution and problem solving. This tends to throttle growth. Join us and Tim Ogilvie and Katie Waterson, our valued partners from Peer Insight, for a webinar on ways to accelerate and de-risk innovation. We will present techniques companies can use to transform themselves from authorized firms, which [...]

Today, our CEO, Mat Fogarty, took to the stage to present at the Financial Forecasting and Planning Summit in sunny San Diego. The goal of the Summit is to bring together leaders in the industry to discuss innovation and financial planning methods that are key to future business success. Presentations during the conference focus on [...]

Yesterday we announced an exciting partnership with Peer Insight, a strategic innovation consultancy that focuses on identifying emerging business opportunities. Our prediction markets platform will allow Peer Insight to tap the knowledge of their clients’ employees and translate it into crowd forecasts, or crowdcasts, of a variety of key metrics. Peer Insight’s recommendations, now backed [...]

At TED, the speakers are as remarkable as their talks. In her blog post titled Transformative Transparency, Ogilvy PR’s Virginia Miracle called out Monitor 360‘s Doug Randall, who gave a presentation in which he described an on-going project Crowdcast is doing with Monitor 360 for the intelligence community around crowd sourcing insights from people on [...]

We completely redesigned our knowledge aggregation mechanism — or “new mech” as it has endearingly became known here at Crowdcast — several months back.  The new mech is interesting for a number of reasons.  Here are two: it’s a novel and robust way to collect information (we’ve already filed two patents on it), and integrating [...]

On Tuesday, Brooke and I attended the Catalyst Girls in Tech conference. It was a wonderfully organized and star-packed event aimed at supporting the career development of women in the tech industry. Heather Harde, CEO of TechCrunch, keynoted, backed up by an impressive list of speakers and workshop leaders. Two first impressions: You know you’re [...]