At the onset of 2014 we find crowdsourcing where cloud was just a few short years ago — widely discussed, unevenly adopted and on the cusp of widespread industry impact. Similarly, we will see crowdsourcing experience hypergrowth but also leave some damaged bystanders that were caught up in the hype and mislead (aka private cloud circa 2006-7).
In 2005, while working in SAP corporate strategy, I read the “Wisdom of Crowds” by James Surowiecki and decided to put to test an experiment from the book using the strategy team. I asked each team member to guess the number of marbles in a (virtual) jar.
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