Goldcorp Crowdsourcing: An Industry Best Practice for the Intelligence Community?

Abstract

A growing number of businesses use crowdsourcing that is, they outsource tasks to people outside the organization in a way that harnesses the capabilities and knowledge of external individuals on a mass scale to create innovative solutions. This article describes how Goldcorp, Incorporated, an international gold-mining company on the brink of collapse, used crowdsourcing via the Internet to turn its business around. The article then explores some challenges and successes behind crowdsourcing initiatives and offers crowdsourcing as an approach with applicability for the Intelligence Community (IC).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA617224

Entities

People

  • Jesse R. Wilson

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • California
  • Climate Change
  • Commerce
  • Communities
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Intelligence Community
  • Intelligence Community (United States)
  • Internet
  • National Security
  • Natural Disasters
  • Operating Systems
  • Security
  • Threat Evaluation
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Websites

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Military Logistics and Supply Chain Management