Is Crowdsourcing the Result of Cloud Computation?
March 11, 2014
Grazed from Crowdsourcing.org. Author: Martin Ingram.
With the continued push into an entirely digitized era, companies are embracing cloud computing to enhance their business operations. Yet, most executives are still grappling with the question around how to virtualize their business processes and respective people, while generating innovation.
For the last decade, the idea of cloud computing has been a part of business conversations, with debate over whether the unknown applications were effective; in fact, at first, cloud computing was not proven successful and many people discounted its potential. In the last few years cloud computing has become mainstream, forcing executives to look back and question their everyday business processes…
Not only does cloud computing and crowdsourcing (i.e. the people piece of the equation) increase utilization rates, but they also decrease operational costs, as workload balances are consolidated, there is quicker provisioning and deployment, and enhanced resiliency and availability…
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