what is crowd computing?
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Crowd computing is what makes crowdsourcing possible at the scale and quality required by the enterprise. This short and simple presentation will fill you in on what it is and why it's going to radically but seamlessly improve how knowledge work gets done.TRANSCRIPT
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WHAT IS CROWD COMPUTING?
A QUICK OVERVIEW OF A NEW WAY TO GET WORK DONE
AUGUST 9, 2013
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WHAT IF…
HUMAN
…YOU COULD HARNESS SPARE THINKING AND TIME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD?
!
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YOU CAN. IT’S CALLED “COGNITIVE SURPLUS.”
The ability to aggregate and employ SURPLUS HUMAN TIME AND TALENT through DIGITAL MEDIA
(This is a great book. You should read it!)
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IT’S HOW WIKIPEDIA WAS CREATED...
“COGNITIVE SURPPLUS”
200 billion hours spent watching TV by US adults
Only 100 million hours to create Wikipedia
IMAGE CREDIT: DAVID MCCANDLESS / SOURCE: CLAY SHIRKY
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HOW PAPER BOOKS ARE DIGITIZED...
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AND HOW IMAGES BECOME WORDS.
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IMAGINE WHAT BUSINESSES COULD DO...
BPO
“Hmmm….”
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BACK-‐OFFICE WORK IS A REAL BURDEN.
STRUCTURING DATA, BUILDING COMPANY RECORDS, REFERENCE DATA, CREATING META-‐DATA, ETC.
DATA-‐CENTRIC BUSINESSES
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BUT HOW DO YOU HIRE, TRAIN & MANAGE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AT ONCE?
?
“Someone tell HR we need to hire 3.4 million managers.”
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THAT’S WHAT CROWD COMPUTING DOES.
“We’re dumb, but we learn quickly and work super fast.”
“We’re slow and scadered, but we’re
smart.”
PEOPLE AND MACHINES MAKE A GREAT TEAM.
CROWD WORKERS ALGORITHMS
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COMPLEX WORK IS MADE SIMPLER BY ATOMIZING IT INTO “MICROTASKS”…
“This is going to take me a week.”
“We can do this simple stuff in a
few hours.”
…WHICH MAKE IT EASY FOR CROWDSOURCED WORKERS AND MACHINES TO DO.
HIGH VALUE TASK
JUDGMENT TASK
JUDGMENT TASK
REPETITIVE TASK
REPETITIVE TASK
REPETITIVE TASK (SPECIALIST)
“I have so much more ime for real
work!”
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THE CROWD LEARNS FROM SPECIALISTS, AND MACHINES LEARN FROM CROWD...
…WHICH DRIVES AUTOMATION, ENABLING PEOPLE TO FOCUS ON HIGHER VALUE WORK.
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WE THINK CROWD COMPUTING WILL BE AS BIG AS THESE OTHER SERVICES.
BPO
SaaS Software as a Service
IaaS Infrastructure as a Service
WaaS Work as a Service
HARDWARE
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