{"id":455,"date":"2011-01-11T12:38:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T11:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2011-01-11T12:38:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T11:38:29","slug":"a-disruptive-approach-multistep-dynamic-expert-sourcing-mdes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/2011\/01\/11\/a-disruptive-approach-multistep-dynamic-expert-sourcing-mdes\/","title":{"rendered":"A disruptive approach: Multistep Dynamic Expert Sourcing (MDES)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Expert Sourcing<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>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, experts do not register, instead, the various digital tracks they leave on the web allow to detect and to invite them on-demand to tackle most challenging technological problems. MDES has strong advantages for the platform, for the experts and for the client companies.<\/p>\n<h3>The pillars of the Dynamic Expert Sourcing Approach<\/h3>\n<p>As illustrated in Figure\u00a01, the MDES approach seeks to bring value to <em>seekers<\/em> by connecting their <em>needs<\/em> to worldwide scientific knowledge &amp; intelligence. The MDES philosophy holds on 3 points:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Expert Sourcing<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic (or On-Demand)<\/li>\n<li>Multistep<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Points (1) and (2) are covered in the next subsection and point (3) in the following. Main advantages are listed at the end of the present section.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_459\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ConnectSeekersExperts.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-459\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-459 \" title=\"Connect Business Needs to Worldwide Expertise\" src=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ConnectSeekersExperts-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"Connect Business Needs to Worldwide Expertise\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1: the MDES approach brings value to seekers by connecting their needs to worldwide scientific knowledge &amp; intelligence. Seekers can be any department in a company with needs (a need is a \u201cpain\u201d that can be addressed by scientific or technological expertise).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The present article is after the chapter we wrote in the book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Guide-Open-Innovation-Crowdsourcing-Practitioners\/dp\/0749463074\/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1290462031&amp;sr=8-8\">A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing: A Compendium of Best Practice, Advice and Case Studies from Leading Thinkers, Commentators and Practitioners<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, experts do not register, instead, the various digital tracks they leave on the web allow to detect and to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[375,491,604,609,901,1089,1151,1224,1332,1349,1364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}