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Below Graphic: Partnered with Vision Critical, Crowd Companies (the association I started for big brands in the collaborative economy) surveyed over 90,000 people to find out why they share goods, services, space, transportation, and money. A dissection of the largest study in the Collaborative Economy … Continue readingPeople Are Sharing in the Collaborative Economy for Convenience and Price
Sharing is the New Buying: How to Win in the Collaborative Economy from Jeremiah Owyang The Collaborative Economy Movement Changes Business This report offers critical insight for big brands who are grappling with the emergence of the Collaborative Economy, and for the startups that are … Continue readingReport: Sharing is the New Buying, Winning in the Collaborative Economy
A large crowd convenes at a Maker Faire for the full scale mouse trap. This maker movement puts power in the hands of the people to fund, design, prototype, produce, manufacture, distribute, market and sell their own goods. This movement impacts global manufacturing as creation … Continue readingMaker Movement and 3D Printing: Industry Stats
Uber redefines transportation by tapping new business models. This age-old pyramid diagram above is the basis for many business models. Companies typically choose only one or two of the following qualities: Cheap, Fast, or Quality. To apply this model to the Collaborative Economy, let’s … Continue readingUber’s Business Model Reframes Cheaper, Better, Faster.
Question: When the crowd gets what they need from each other, who will monitor, regulate, ensure, and even insure? Olivier Blanchard, a leading voice for digital business, posed a great question to a Facebook group in which we participate, asking how the sharing economy will contend with … Continue readingHow does the Collaborative Economy Weed out the Jerks?
Sharing is not new, we’ve been doing it since we assembled into primitive tribes. A few months ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to speak to an insurance company in Iowa. They were intrigued by my focus on the Collaborative Economy (sharing economy, maker movement, … Continue readingSharing Is Not New
Today marks the 5th Annual Community Manager Appreciation Day, or #CMAD for short. I’m thankful to the community for rallying behind this day when I initiated it in 2010. I had seen that some of our hardest working business folks were struggling to manage the onslaught of communications, … Continue readingCommunity Managers Evolve in the Collaborative Economy #CMAD
“The Long Road” a photo by Kris Krug.People often ask me, “which term should I use? the sharing economy? collaborative economy? the trust economy? or some other term?” I give my answer, but often remind them if we’re successful, it’ll just be called the Economy. … Continue readingIt’s Just the Economy
Photo “Sailing Ship” by Gideonc, used under creative commons license. These traits certainly don’t comprise a complete list of what makes leaders effective, but, just as certainly, they are common perhaps uncommonly common among effective leaders. I’ve observed these traits while working with CEOs, market leaders … Continue readingFour Traits of Effective Leaders
Today is the start of a long journey, as businesses can also be part of this new economy. I’m excited! Today is a milestone, it’s the first Crowd Companies council session –we’re kicking off! The above video was played in our session, to set … Continue readingThe Power of Collaboration
