Wikipedia Issue Equals Trouble for the Crowdsourcing Business Model?

I was surprised to see a plea for donations from Wikipedia.  The plea stated that if every user would donate only $5, Wikipedia could operate for a significant period with no additional donations needed.  I was under the impression that crowd sourcing and open sourcing were the business models of the future, so how could […]

10 Initiatives using the crowd to generate new ideas

This is a guest post by Anders Sundelin, expert in business model innovation, with the popular blog The Business Model Database. Crowdsourcing or mass collaboration have become popular words for using an external group of people as part of the value creation and value capturing process. Organizations have for a long time used groups of […]