Some believe that The Wisdom of Crowds doesn’t apply within organisations since the employee population is too small to truly leverage the economies of mass intelligence.

 I disagree.  Effective markets are not necessarily dependent on scale.  Communities of practice or social networks thrive at many sizes — in fact, once they reach 150 people or so they can face some challenges.

 BNet ran this great article on crowdsourcing — in real life.  Read it.