Enterprise crowdsourcing

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Three foundational attributes for  crowdsourcing within enterprises
1. Culture of cross BU collaboration measurable and encouraged at all levels
2. Flexible bandwidth of 20% of people's time that can be spent on unassigned projects backed with rewards and recognition
3. Playpen Cloud environment for exploration of cross-BU and partner solution portfolio leading to an enterprise app store of sorts
Organisations look outside for talent and seldom recognise the importance of bringing about an internal mindshift.
Enterprise Social have now entered and are making new friends as extensions to the work life we knew thus far. Not to mention these networks are able to provide people easy access on mobile devices. This is an amazing opportunity for business leaders with a captive talent pool.
Some ideas icehusk is exploring include:
Idea generation
Solution factories
Employee engagement
Intrapreneurship
Knowledge pooling
Cross LOB collaboration

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