Crowdsourcing and large systems change

[Harrison Owen]

Holger – Amen, Amen! Great stuff, albeit the language is a little tortured (eg “instantiate”). Oh well it is wonderful when insight breaks through by whatever the means, source, or linguistic gymnastics. Why don’t you host an Open Space on Crowd Sourcing? That could be fun.

 

Harrison 

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Holger Nauheimer (Change Facilitation)
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:25 AM
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Subject: Crowdsourcing and large systems change

 

Today, I found a great blog post which links large systems change with the

concept of crowdsourcing:

 

Crowdsourcing for Employee, Customer and Stakeholder Engagement:

http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/08/13/crowdsourcing-for-employee-customer-and-stakeholder-engagement/

 

Crowdsourcing as a technique for gathering useful information stems from the

concepts outlined in The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki. Obviously,

this is what OST practioners (and those applying other large group

intervention techniques) have been doing for the last 20 years. Now we have

a new label for it! :)

 

"The job of a leader in today’s hyperlinked and transparent organizational

world is to instantiate the crowd’s intelligence and / or wisdom with a

clearly-stated and purposeful mission and objective, and then listen ! This

is where social software and methods like crowdsourcing can shine. They can

and I believe will, eventually, replace or augment even the most

sophisticated culture change initiative or surveys and diagnostics." 

 

Amen! 

 

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