EXPLORING AND BUILDING TOMORROW'S ORGANIZATIONS
Diversity In Expert Search
Diversity in Expert Search When Web search engines deal with a broad or ambiguous search query from a user, it is often better to try to present in the results documents matching various aspects of the query to increase the user satisfaction. Is this practice specific...
Open Innovation Platforms, Idea Dispenser or More?
I will be one of the speakers of the symposium "Innovation & Veille - Partenaires de l'Avenir" ("Innovation and Intelligence - Partners for the Future"). I'll be speaking between Pierre-Emmanuel Meyers (Innovation at Air Liquide) and Gerald Piat (Innovation at...
One Million Experts on X-Search!
PRESANS has launched X-Search (presans.com/x-search), the first Worldwide Expert Search Engine less than 3 months ago. It took us a while to go through all the awesome comments and feedback you sent us. We read them all and today, we have great news to announce: more,...
Open science
Michael Nielsen, we already spoke about in this blog, recently gave a very interesting talk at TEDx on "Open Science". Why social network for researchers or scientists do not work and why this is a shame. Open Science (by Michael Nielsen at TEDx) Original post is on...
X-CREATION invests in PRESANS
X-Création became one of PRESANS's shareholders in March 2011. X-Création was founded on 11 April 2003. This subsidiary of the École Polytechnique and the École Polytechnique Foundation aims to provide financial aid to start-ups that have emerged from the research...
PRESANS finds experts for you
Charles Foucault from the French journal Industrie et Technologies published a very good article on PRESANS and X-Search on March 8th. Industrie et Technologies is a well-known journal on the latest news from Research and Development and industry.
A Novel Approach for Open Innovation Platforms: Multistep Dynamic Expert Sourcing : Conclusion
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...
Main advantages of Multistep Dynamic Expert Sourcing
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...
A Guide to Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing
We are pleased to announce the release of the book on Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing that we have co-authored. The new book, called A Guide to Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing, edited by Paul Sloane was launched this week. Paul Sloane manage to pull together...
Multistep Problem Solving Process
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 and Dynamic aspect
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...
X-Search, the worldwide expert search engine is live
Since a few hours ago, PRESANS Expert Search Engine, X-Search is live. You can create a free account and start finding hundreds of thousands of experts worldwide in a few clicks. If you have been invited to the Beta, we will send you your activation code in a few...
A disruptive approach: Multistep Dynamic Expert Sourcing (MDES)
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,...