Get in With the Out Crowd In conversation with IESE Prof. Evgeny Kaganer, the co-founder of Crowdspring Mike Samson talks about how crowdsourcing creates a community that goes beyond the mere marketplace. While the marketplace simply connects the seller with the buyer, crowdsourcing...
Too Much Information The data explosion is revolutionizing social science because it allows us to look at the individual and not just at the organizational level, says Prof. Javier Zamora. However, our databases aren’t designed to cope with these quantities and we need...
Game is Over for TV Times are changing for TV channels, which have existed until now because they owned exclusive rights to broadcast content. Now anyone can broadcast content through the internet, which will make TV channels irrelevant and prompt new ways for content to...
The Shift to Digital Content What impact will a digital, paperless environment have on students’ learning experience? asks Prof. Evgeny Káganer. In an experiment providing half of Executive MBA students with paper materials and the other half with tablets, the main concern of...
The Age of Movement, Touch and Sound Text is essentially over and we’re moving into the era of movement, touch and sound, says Prof. Sandra Sieber. The importance of text will decline over the next five years as voice-recognition programs become more sophisticated and the technical obstacles...
In conversation with IESE Prof. Evgeny Kaganer, the co-founder of Crowdspring Mike Samson talks about how crowdsourcing creates a community that goes beyond the mere marketplace. While the marketplace simply connects the seller with the buyer, crowdsourcing creates a community with an opportunity for growth and learning. Large companies use crowdsourcing to connect directly with [...]
The data explosion is revolutionizing social science because it allows us to look at the individual and not just at the organizational level, says Prof. Javier Zamora. However, our databases aren’t designed to cope with these quantities and we need new data management tools as computers enter a domain previously only inhabited by humans.
Times are changing for TV channels, which have existed until now because they owned exclusive rights to broadcast content. Now anyone can broadcast content through the internet, which will make TV channels irrelevant and prompt new ways for content to be monetized and and “hits” to be discovered.
What impact will a digital, paperless environment have on students’ learning experience? asks Prof. Evgeny Káganer. In an experiment providing half of Executive MBA students with paper materials and the other half with tablets, the main concern of the latter was the inability to view more than one document at a time. However, this was [...]
Text is essentially over and we’re moving into the era of movement, touch and sound, says Prof. Sandra Sieber. The importance of text will decline over the next five years as voice-recognition programs become more sophisticated and the technical obstacles to transmitting live video are overcome. Instead of writing we will talk and see. Meanwhile, with its technologies that eliminate the need for joysticks, the game industry has shown the possibilities of using physical movement.
The New York Times slogan of “all the news that’s fit to print” reflects a scarcity of knowledge and the need for an editorial filter, says Prof. Javier Zamora. The Encyclopedia Britannica, which has stopped publishing in book form after more than 250 years, cannot compete with the resources of Wikipedia which has 50 times [...]
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