Tom, Thanks for the mention of the interview with Alph. It was a fun exercise. Plus, I was able to showcase SFI a bit with Alph which likely would not have been a focus if someone else had done the interview. They edited out a good bit of our banter about the Institute and complex adaptive systems to shorten the long interview.
Randy ---- The interview also ran online in the headline section of Wired.com last Friday as part of Wired¹s series all last week of the best 12 articles and interviews on ³crowdsourcing² to come out of the AssignmentZero project. Frankly though, the link you provided to AssignmentZero.com, the origin of the effort, is a better link and easier to read. http://zero.newassignment.net/filed/innocentive_crowdsourcing_diversity Some of the FRIAMers know Alph from his workings at Lilly and SFI Business Network. Innocentive/Lilly was influenced in a real world way by the complexity thinking in the region...seeing things in new ways. For example, Steve Guerin demonstrates an excellent example of a visualization tool he and others worked on at Bios for Alph at Lilly -- developed for evaluating pharma R&D project investments as I recall. Jeff Howe, the godfather of crowdsourcing at Wired Magazine, gave the Innocentive interview his ³best of show.² www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/07/assignment_zero_final (third page): > ... In my rough count, at least 60 of the 80 interviews would stand up to professional scrutiny, which is to say the interviewer was well-informed, asked challenging questions and managed to elicit interesting (and occasionally fascinating) commentary from his or her subject. The gems are too numerous to mention, but a few standouts include Randy Burge¹s interview with Innocentive co-founder Alpheus Bingham and J. Jack Unrau¹s inteview with crowdsourcing scholar Karim Lakhani. But these are the tip of the iceberg. What the interviews make clear is that contributors volunteered to tackle subjects about which they were passionate and knowledgeable. In this they held a considerable advantage over professionals, who often must complete interviews with little time (or inclination) for advance research. Info on crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe, the Wired writer who coined the term: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/crowds.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/look.html Jeff is writing a book on crowdsourcing due out early next year. If anyone in FRIAMland has some thoughts on the CAS implications of crowdsourcing, let me know and I will pass the thoughts along to Jeff for possible inclusion in his book, if he deems your thoughts of interest. on 7/11/07 11:21 AM, Tom Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FRIAM lister Randy Burge (Albuquerque) conducted a most interesting interview > with Alpheus Bingham <http://www.innocentive.com/about/bios.html#bingham> > about driving institutional and intellectual change at Eli Lilly. Check it > out at: > http://zero.newassignment.net/filed/innocentive_crowdsourcing_diversity > > (My apologies if this has already been posted. If so, the tree fell in the > forest and I didn't hear it.) > What starts with the crowd ends in research and development > Randy Burge interviews Alpheus Bingham, co-founder of Innocentive, via > telephone on May18th > -tj
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