Improving Analytics Capabilities Through Crowdsourcing
Analytics capabilities can greatly expand a company's ability to innovate — but what do you do when the talent you need just isn't available? Agribusiness giant Syngenta, faced with an insurmountable analytics talent bottleneck, turned to crowdsourcing. Using a series of contests, it outsourced the development of a set of award-winning analytics tools to improve its decision making — and learned, in the process, some key factors supporting successful crowdsourcing.