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InnoCentive: The Answer is in The Crowd

December 3rd, 2008 (2:23pm) Darrell Etherington 1 Comment

innocentive-logoCrowdsourcing is a relatively recent workplace trend that isn’t going away.

On the one hand, it definitely generates healthy competition, and companies stand to win out in a big way when service providers and freelancers are openly vying for your dollar. We’ve looked at some examples in the past, like 99 designs, a site where designers enter competitions to win contracts.

InnoCentive has a different take on crowdsourcing.

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