...Crowdsourcing In the first half of this paper, I will examine the invention and growth of crowdsourcing in the field of interface design. Second, I will describe the impact that crowdsourcing has had on the field of interface design. Third, I will discuss at least 3 benefits of incorporating crowdsourcing in a design project. Finally, I will discuss at least 3 challenges of incorporating crowdsourcing in a design project. The invention of and growth of crowdsourcing in the field of interface design has grown exponential. Alsever (2007) states that the basic idea of crowdsourcing is to “tap into the collective intelligence of the public at large to complete business-related tasks that a company would normally either perform itself or outsource to a third-party provider”. This means that companies would utilize the benefits of outside sources to help accomplish a certain goal or criteria that the company can capitalize on. Unlike outsourcing, crowdsourcing utilizes the resources that can be found in the United States. Small businesses with tighter budgets utilize crowdsourcing to obtain ideas for their user interface at a fraction of the cost. For example, a start-up company called ‘Health Junky’ wants a logo for their company but they do not want to pay a professional $1,000 for their ideas. Instead, they utilize the crowdsource to obtain a plethora of ideas on their new logo. They pay the winner of the logo design $100 and save 90% by using a crowdsource. Therefore...
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...Crowd-Sourcing, Cloud Computing [Abdul Rehman] [Student Number] [Information Technology] Crowd-sourcing Crowd-sourcing is the procedure of getting work or financing, generally online, from a group of individuals. The statement is depicted as a mixture of two words i.e "crowd" and “outsourcing”. The impression is to take work and outsource it to a cloud of specialists. This model has emerged rapidly in recent years. Prominent examples of the model include iStockphoto, Threadless, the Goldcorp Challenge, Innocentive, and user-generated marketing competitions (Daily Crowdsource, n.d.).The principle behind crowd-sourcing is that a greater number of heads are superior to one. By soliciting an extensive group of individuals for opinions, aptitudes, or cooperation, the nature of stuff and idea generated will be unsurpassed (Brabham D. C., 2008). It permits you to select the best outcome from an ocean of 'best individuals,' instead of getting the best from a particular provider. Results might be conveyed much faster than customary techniques respectively. Clear guidelines are the key in crowd-sourcing. Quality could be hard to judge if appropriate requirements are not distinctly expressed. Cloud Computing Cloud computing is generally identified as the future of ‘information technology’. It can be defined as the designing and distribution of computing services over the Internet. Cloud services allow people and organizations to use software and hardware which are controlled...
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...– Apr 2015 IMS People is an Offshore Recruitment Services firm whose customized services help companies and staffing firms source talent for opportunities at home and abroad. We tailor our services to each client’s needs by providing traditional recruitment services and creative, one-time solutions that help companies gain advantage in their market and drive their recruitment value chain. Achievement: Awarded Performer of the month for May-2014, Sep-2014. Awarded New Comer of the Year 2014. Duties: As a Recruitment consultant I am responsible for building and maintaining relationships with clients, colleagues and candidates. This enables me to research and generate new business opportunities. Duties Included; * Headhunting and sourcing candidates dependant on employer requirements * Regular business development calls with new and existing clients * Interviewing and screening candidates to create a strong pipeline * Marketing...
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...The global sourcing challenges of IKEA Who does not know IKEA? Famous for its design and very affordable house furniture, IKEA is the leader on its market. Founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad this business grew tremendous fast that it has become the reference in term of low-cost self assemble furniture in the world. The sourcing strategy of IKEA follows a manufacturing Code of Conduct towards its suppliers named “The IKEA Way in Purchasing Home Furnishing Products” (IWAY) . Besides this code, the strategy is rather well established especially regarding the relationships between the company and its suppliers from the economically developing countries. But the question is; are Ikea’s international procurements processes efficient? Can they be improved? This essay will focus on Ikea’s global sourcing’s tradeoffs and will highlight the way they can be enhanced. The first part of this essay will describe the regular sourcing process of IKEA including the strategy, the second part will emphasize how the sourcing should be done to be successful and the last part will provide recommendations about the processes according to the analysis. For a company, global sourcing is basically choosing different suppliers all around the world in order to use worldwide efficiencies and reduce costs. Global sourcing offers various advantages such as low cost materials and skilled labour, diminution of lead times, and also economical advantages like low taxes or low trade tariffs. These benefits...
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...experience that’s why every time I go I get something different. Although we do not live in a city with a Cheesecake Factory, we make it a point to go when we visit Charlotte or Atlanta. The Cheesecake Factories weaknesses are the extremely long wait time. We have gone several times at different location and different times of the day, and each time our wait is at least 1 hour long. We normally wait but there have been a few times when we have left because we are starving. Another weakness is the small waiting area is also one of the main traffic areas for everyone buying cheesecake at the counter, going to and from the bar, and food dishes going from the kitchen to the tables. It's crowded and it doesn’t help that large crowds make me claustrophobic not to mention someone is always touching or brushing up again you or you’re constantly being asked to move out of the way. We like to go window shop...
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...to the problem and negatives towards the problem. A McDonald’s in a city crowded with seniors are overwhelmed with senior customers during the early hours of the day. The senior come in as a meeting area where they eat and commune at the restaurant. The number of seniors that come in, crowds the dining area in which customers come in and eat. They come in on the fourth Monday of every month to get extra special, over the age of 55 discounts. This is a meal that cost 1.99 and free coffee refills. The staff knows the seniors very well and go to see them if they are hospitalized. The relationship is considered a good one between the staff and the seniors. In addition, a idea of adding bingo to add to the excitement of the mornings for the seniors from nine to eleven a.m. Using the party room would accommodate up to 150 senior patrons. A primary problem to this case study is the senior crowd. The restaurant already takes on the task of having enough room to seat the entire dining style crowd, if it engages in bingo than the crowd will become even more outrageous. Not only will the restaurant have the meeting crowd they will have a bingo crowd as well. Meaning, that more senior crowd will come in ready and only ready to engage in bingo. A secondary problem would be the title of the restaurant would be at risk. The fast food label may become a social restaurant, common to a bar status. It may take on the name of the “old people’s restaurant”. This will detour many...
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...There are many vague definitions of the term ‘a crowd’ one of which is defined as by the Oxford Dictionary as “a large number of people gathered together, usually without orderly arrangement” and Le Bon (2006:15) defines a crowd as “a gathering of individuals of whatever nationality, profession or sex and whatever be chances that have brought them together”. Crowding can have a wide range of negative behaviour and negative human effects. For example, crowding in prisons has been accompanied by negative psychological reactions and increased disciplinary problems, assaults, illness complaints, deaths, and suicides. Because of this, prison wardens are affected by it as much as the prisoners themselves because they are exposed to the behaviour prisoners may have. Merely being crowded in any setting can have negative effects. In the classroom, the larger the number of students, the more the strain, anxiety, and frustration it creates. When there is less crowding in the schools, at home, or at any other social setting, there is a reduction of psychological stress and problems are reduced. In other words, the reductions of crowding have positive effects. The larger the crowd is in public settings, the more negative effects there are for groups and individuals. The effects may cause groups or individuals to lose their sanity or take part in activities they normally would not be drawn to doing. Being in a crowd sometimes can mean that you lose your individuality as you are merely blending...
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...Introduction to Events Assessment 1 – Event review white Night Student Name: Simone Tyrrell ‘The White Night Festival is an all-night cultural event that runs from dusk to dawn in the city streets, parklands, laneways and cultural institutions in Melbourne’ (Bennett 2014) The White Night Melbourne festival is a major event that Melbourne has now hosted for two years, with its debut being in 2013. White Night Melbourne would be considered a major event as major events are a large scale special event that attracts large crowds and has a considerable amount of media attention. Major events are also expensive to stage. However, even though major events are expensive to stage they bring revenue to the businesses in the area where the event is being staged and raise awareness of the local area which helps promote tourism for a specific region. The White Night event was 1st conceived in Paris, France in 2002. Paris’ event name is ‘Nuit Blanche’ which translates to “White Night”. The event was created “to make art and culture accessible to large audiences within public spaces” (White Night Melbourne website 2014). From the event first being held in Paris in 2002, it has gained momentum as an international event with over 20 cities in the world now hosting a White Night event. Melbourne held its first White Night event in 2013 and was “a state government of Victoria initiative created by the Victorian Major Events company” (White Night Melbourne website 2014). In Melbourne’s calendar...
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...Powerful tool of promotion: 1. Most economic way for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can reach large mass of potential customers in the capital and promote products unique to their states culture and heritage. 2. This gives a direct selling opportunity to small enterprises who otherwise would have found it impossible to afford setting up shops in Delhi. 3. Even for little bigger establishments who may have some presence directly or indirectly in Delhi and other metro cities this gives a rare opportunity where very lagr number of customers and business contacts are met in a small period (2 weeks) times 4. The primary objective of course is to maximise sales and the secondary objective is also to promote awareness and future business opportunities outside their own state and sometimes even outside the country. For instance, potential dealers, agents or large buyer from abroad and other parts of the country visit their stalls and connections build up from there. 5. Mass awareness of these products 6. Single major platform for tribal communities from states who otherwise don’t find many avenues to promote their handicrafts and other products. 7. It is often found that in one such trade fair the tribal group manages to sell products which they might have made over last 3-4 months. But more importantly it creates a major awareness of these tribal products in more urban areas. Special features: 1. The pavilion of the state where the main theme of the state’s heritage...
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...University of Phoenix BCOM275 Brilliant Speaking The video really addresses many of the facets that have been highlighted in our readings. It addresses that the qualities of a successful speaker of a small group are also the same qualities that are found in a speaker of large crowds. These qualities are needed in the workplace, and can help establish positive communication in the work team. Speaking is our primary method of communication when in person. So the most important part of communication is getting the message across. The video addresses how many people have a terrible fear of public speaking. The video claims that many people fear public speaking over death itself. I have a very hard time believing that, since a person could easily exaggerate their phobia. One of the practices that would be most relevant to my experience and fears would be to remember to make eye contact with the audience, and smile more. I have a terrible time doing this and I know it. Another great point that was given was to check out your surroundings before you give our speech. This will help you feel more comfortable. If I was to give advice to someone speaking, I would tell them that the crowd is only human, and that the people came there to listen. So basically be themselves and relax. The video also makes a point that it helps to turn the nervousness into excitement. While I have not done that personally I would be very interested to find out if it works out. Another...
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...online surveys, focus groups, and review of customers comments on Web sites. Do you think this might be true? 7.Pick an online product or service you would like to deliver as a business firm. Outline how you would use IdealScale. How would you select the people for your online community? How would you prompt them to participate? What new ideas would you propose them? Or what questions would you ask them to respond to? Answers 1)Crowdsourcing is like a distributed problem-solving system in which tasks are being outsourcing to a number of people referred to as the crowd. So the problems are broadcasted to the crowd maybe via Internet where voluntary and ordinary people can give their contribution to the finding of solutions for that particular task. 2) The person who you think that might best does the job isn’t always the one doing the right job. So that’s why usually the outsourcing goes to an undefined large crowd rather than employees of your organization. It is an interesting approach thinking that the audience you were once serving is actually...
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...EVM 203: Assessment 1 Throughout this document, I will look to explain Fowey’s Royal Regatta and the techniques and strategies they have deployed to prevent risks occurring. Fowey Royal Regatta is a week-long carnival which attracts thousands of tourists and annually celebrates sailing in Cornwall. I am specifically going to investigate the closing day of the regatta; which is host to the firework display and carnival float parade. This is a public event with a large number of attendees; therefore it must provide a safe environment for anyone located at the event. The event organisers prior to the event will carry out risk assessments to identify and risks or hazards during the event. I will go into detail the risks associated with the people involved in the assembly of the event prior to commencement, as well as the risks associated with issues such as motorised floats during the carnival procession, including risks to members of the general public. Goldblatt and Nelson (2001) describe a risk assessment as a profile of a particular event, that considers all potential risks and threats that could arise. Please see Appendix 1; which outlines the risks identified at Fowey Royal Regatta. The first risk outlined in the risk assessment involves the floats from the carnival parade. The floats have the potential to collide with entrants and buildings (especially with the narrow road access in and around Fowey town). They also have a potential issue with falling objects hitting members...
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...Highly priced, Stars :- 4, Last visit :- 09-02-2011. My first impression was 'WOW' as i entered a restaurant named WILD WEST in Raipur, C.G. Inside a full length stage runs along one side of this pub, and on the opposite side is a full length bar and open kitchen. In between is the dance floor, and the round booths with tables. The venue dosen't restrict itself to a particular genre of music. Instead, some nights it transform itself into a club with live Djs ,while other nights it take on a more treditional and laid back vibe with live band and solo performances. There is one big drawback to this place. On a busy night the crowds make it very time consuming and challenging to get to the bar and get a drink. The bar area become extreamly congested.The reason behind this is that the area in front of the bar is not big enough to accommodate all the people trying to get served and the people trying to get from one side of the venue to the other. They serves a limited selection of alcohol. Some pros and cons for this place can be like, it is very versatile and host all genre of music, centrally located, serves food and sunday brunch, difficult to get from bar to dance floor during busy time, the area around the bar becomes extremely crowded and service is slow. ...
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...Dying to be Thin: America’s Obsession with the Anorexic Profile. Matthew Smith Strayer University SOC100 Sociology Professor Sheila Farr April 29, 2012 In today’s society we have a standard by which we compare ourselves to others. We judge the people around us by physical appearance before we even meet and get to know them. Mental disorders revolved around eating stem from this kind of mass judgment. These standards are often not based around our own appearance but by the standards set for us via the Media. We allow ourselves to become over saturated with these images of the ”perfect” person. Why is it that the people who aren’t even in our live get to decide the way we look? We put our bodies through hell trying to meet and manage these expectations that society has placed on us. Is this really necessary with all the other pressures we face on a daily basis? Which begs the question, why is our society dying to be thin? In many other cultures it is a sign of wealth and prosperity to be overweight. This girth is afforded by a station above all others and looked upon with envy. (Popenoe, 2004)As a result there are few without this stature within these cultures. The small and skinny are those who can’t afford to eat as robustly. Other societies, like our own have taken an opposing stance on this. The small are suspended on pedestals while the over -weight are rejected. It has not always been this way, however. Through the years our perspectives have been skewed by...
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... * I. Introduction We have all shopped there, those stores that have huge lines and not enough cashiers on duty, although they have over 20 registers and only 7 are open, or worse stores that have no employee on sight for help when we have a question to ask. In order to be efficient, all stores need to have an adequate amount of staff working on all departments. However, this is not the case for most stores, in particular K-Mart. With nationwide store locations, K-Mart is one of America’s retail giants. K-Mart Corporation a. Brief History b. Brief Information - Name - Location, size - Market segment (business line) Essential issues * a. Black Friday - Dangers of large crowds, possible injury - Need better plan for massive crowds Lack of Organizational Skills and Leadership Skills Organizational Skills a. Staff * Small number of employees * Lack of training * Over worked b. Store - Unattended departments Leadership Skills a. Management b. Corporate The Problem Identifying the Problem a. Employees -Hiring -Low staffing -Efficiency -High turnover b. Customer - Customer service (quick service) Root of the Problem a. Store management b. Corporate IV. Literature Review K-Mart History www.searsholdings.com/about/kmart/history.htm CNN – Timeline for K-Mart money.cnn.com/2002/01/22/news/kmart_timeline * V. Analysis Identified Problems -Where did it originate...
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