EXPLORING AND BUILDING TOMORROW'S ORGANIZATIONS

In the first section, the main drawbacks of traditional problem solving platform were presented. These drawbacks are the difficulty to attract and engage sufficient number of qualified experts, the difficulty to efficiently match seeker problems with potential...

Implementing the MDES approach with the right technological and methodological assets (i.e. a powerful Expert Search Engine and a relevant methodology to enhance problem formulation) presents strong advantages for experts, seekers and Open Innovation intermediaries...

Multistep rather than black box The multistep approach allows to engage experts and to satisfy seekers, in a safe, secured and trustable environment. It ensures better performance for problem solving, less frustration among solvers and less disappointment among...

Expert sourcing rather than crowdsourcing To solve highly critical and technological problems, a company needs experts, not random solvers. This is why MDES relies on highly skilled experts rather than solvers. Dynamic (or On-Demand) rather than subscription-based As...

Expert Sourcing The French startup PRESANS developed and implemented the Multistep Dynamic Expert Sourcing (MDES) approach. It relies on a combination between a state-of-the-art web-mining technology and a secured multistep problem solving process. In this approach,...