Enterprise technologies are always a hot topic – especially when it comes down to predicting their adoption rate and how they will change the future of the business operations. This week we had the opportunity to sit down with Susan Scrupski, founder of the 2.0 Adoption Council, which is a peer-based, information-sharing group of global [...]

“Risky” and “business” are two words that don’t go well together, unless you’re talking about mid-80s Tom Cruise movies. Ventana Research just posted some great insights about how exactly companies are using new technologies, such as prediction markets and crowdsourcing, to manage risk and harness collective intelligence from employees who understand possible pitfalls but may [...]

After last night’s nail-biting comeback by the Angels, the road to the World Series got a bit rockier. We checked in with the baseball fans over at CFO’s Prediction Market, who have been forecasting which team out of all the playoff teams will win the series and, despite the Angels’ surge last night, bets are [...]

Pharma professionals, we want your input! Last week, our team and several MIT and Harvard professors got together at the Eye for Pharma Conference to launch the Pharmer’s Market – a new prediction market focusing on the likelihood of breast cancer drugs passing through the phases of drug clinical trials, which is open to every [...]

There are lots of great ideas in our community (be it a corporation, supplier network, government agency), so let’s use a prediction market to let the crowd prioritize and rank those ideas. Sounds great, right? Wrong. Imagine I am a participant in an idea market. I come to the market and see two ideas about [...]

Yesterday, we were incredibly excited to learn that CFO Magazine published an article that used data from the CFO Prediction Market as the primary data source. Last we checked, “CFOs Not on the Recovery Bandwagon Yet” was the second-most viewed article on CFO Magazine’s website. As far as we know, this is the first magazine [...]

On July 23 at 11am PT, we’ll be hosting a webinar about prediction markets.  Our Chief Scientist, Dr. Leslie Fine, and our CEO, Mat Fogarty, will be speaking.  As a participant, in addition to a primer on prediction markets, you’ll also learn about Crowdcast’s Team Intelligence platform and one of our customer case studies.  There [...]

This week, we officially launched a financial prediction market with CFO magazine. You can join in on the fun by clicking here. As of today, the most active forecasts are for the U.S. unemployment rate, change in US GDP, and the price of a barrel of light crude oil. We’re really excited about our partnership [...]

Andrew McAfee, father of Enterprise 2.0, wrote a great blog post today about prediction market use, and our technology in particular. He starts: “A June 25 post to the New York Times Bits blog starts with ‘To get the best predictions about when your company’s latest product will ship or how it will sell, you [...]

Crowdcast was featured today in a story in the New York Times by Claire Cain Miller. The best part: During a pilot period, five large companies, including Warner Brothers and General Motors, have been using Crowdcast to predict revenue, ship dates or new products from competitors. About 4,000 bets have been placed, and predictions have [...]