Crowdsourcing Management Consulting Talent???

Dr. Laurie Lock Lee, Co-founder, Optimice Pty Ltd

Top tier clients seek us out and appreciate our unique talents

Top tier clients no longer see us as a risk

We no longer need a ‘big brand’ to sell

We only need to consult in areas we

are passionate about

We have a ‘family’ in waiting when we

need help

We can co-operate without compliance

Time sheets are a relic of the past

“Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an

open call”- Jeff Howe, Wired Magazine, 2006

Management Consulting Market?

Accenture, Booz, McKinsey, Deloitte, E&Y, PWC, IBM…

Long Tail

Victims of ‘the long tail effect’

Future?

Odesk

Freelancer

Elance

Buyers

SellersComplexity

Com

plex

ity

Low

Low High

High

Management Consulting?

E-books

Phone Apps

ClothingElectronics

Crowd Funding

Pharmaceuticals

ERP Software

Real Estate

Motor Vehicles

Insurance

Company Acquisition

Natural Resources

Software Developers

Web designers

A Management Consulting Co-operative using Collaborative Individualism

Principles

http://www.minessence.net/pdfdocs/collaborativeindividualism.pdf

Compete using the ‘crowd’

Ladder of Co-operation

Common Interest

Individuals Meet & Explore

Growing the Co-operative

Collaborative Projects

Co-operative as the Norm

Forming

Norming

Storming

Starting the journey…..ID the Ecosystem

http://www.optimice.com.au/mining_services.php

Austmine Services Directory

‘Affinity’ Relationship Map of Service Providers

Your input….’Forming’http://www.optimice.com.au/co-op.php

• Taxonomy….supply side or sell side?

• Affinities … likes or opposites?

http://www.community-mapper.com/

Select Target Firms or Industry Sectors

Can browse results to ensure they contain the targets that you

are interested in

(Thompson-Reuters Data Updated Daily)

‘Storming’ with Company Mapper

http://www.optimice.com.au/companymapper/