The whole structure of work and how it happens has been reinvented over the past several decades, in drastic ways and with far-reaching consequences. Lately, companies in the United States have been pulling jobs back from overseas and positions once offshored are returning, if not by the millions, at least by the thousands. The marketplace has spoken, and people want more than just the cheapest product or service made by the cheapest labor, somewhere in the world. Outside the country, business rules got bent, broken, and disregarded -- and companies made billions.
One of the ways people and companies have altered the rules of the online marketplace is by embracing the practice of crowdsourcing creativity, often with questionable results.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Russell C. Smith: Crowdsourcing Creativity -- Is This Any Way to Get Ahead?
