Week 8 of MIS5001 Information Technology Management course taught by Prof. Johnson at Temple U. Fox School of Business

1. Week 8 – Crowdsourcing
MIS5001: Management Information Systems
PROF. STEVEN L. JOHNSON
Twitter: @StevenLJohnson
http://stevenljohnson.org

2. Today’s Agenda
 Case Discussion
 Activity: Crowdsource This!
 Reading and Blog Post Discussion

3. Case Study Discussion
 Describe the basic business model of TopCoder.
 What makes TopCoder successful?
 Hughes wants to grow revenue to $200 million. Is
this realistic?
 Use TopCoder and globalization in the same
sentence.
 How does TopCoder manage the “Community”?
Where is there room for improvement?
 Is TopCoder Direct and the use of CoPilots
effective?

4. 90-Second Reflection
1. What would you like to remember at the end of the
semester about the TopCoder case?
3. What would you like to know more about?
5. Any other comments?

5. Activity: Crowdsource This!
 Form Groups of 2-3 ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ...
 Pick a job or major job role one of you does:
 Identify at least one major component of that job that could be
crowdsourced.
 Of the crowdsourcing models we’ve read about, what would
work best for the target job task?
 Do you think it is a good idea? Why or why not?

6. When is crowdsourcing effective?
 What is crowdsourcing?
 The rise of crowdsourcing
 Crowdsourcing data not without pitfalls

7. For More Information
PROF. STEVEN L. JOHNSON
EMAIL: STEVEN@TEMPLE.EDU
Twitter: @StevenLJohnson
http://stevenljohnson.org