More on that crowdsourcing thing

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.

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