In this new Business Week article Scott Belsky, author and CEO of an online platform provider, discusses the traps many crowdsourcing efforts encounter when tapping professionals as 'the crowd'. He argues the need for new business models to accompany calls for submission in professional settings, so that the effort which individuals put in creating solutions isn't entirely wasted when their suggestion will not be the winning idea.
The latest issue of RSM Outlook, the Alumni and Corporate Relations Magazine of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, has featured several pages on Open Innovation, including an interview with Harry Barkema, Executive Director of the ICCL. The online version can be viewed or downloaded here. See pp. 30 ff. for reference.
Erasmus Magazine has published an article about the Innomediary crowdsourcing platform launched by Mark Boons, ICCL. Read it (in Dutch) here.
Interesting article on Business Model Innovation (with a book recommendation) on the Harvard Business blog:
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/11/is_your_company_courageous_eno.html
A few days ago The Economist has published a special report on telecoms in emerging markets. An interesting read, particularly since mobile phones constitute an infrastructure which, unlike the internet or brick-and-mortar businesses or banks, is available to large parts of the population in developing countries, and can be used in various ways - even as electronic money.