Industry Trends: Unique Ways Companies Are Leveraging the Crowd

• Sammie Schweissguth
• May 5, 2014

Crowdsourcing, or accomplishing tasks through the power of distributed labor, has received a fresh interpretation in the 21st century. Although crowdsourcing was first used to describe the principles of distributed computing, such as open networks and parallel processing, the concepts underlying traditional crowdsourcing are now regularly applied to solve business challenges in the real world…