Former Boston Consulting Group consultant and Harvard Business School Professor, the late great Clayton M. Christensen (1952–2020), first used the words ‘disruptive innovation’ in the mid-1990s when Google was just another search engine.

Even in an age of revolutionary medical science, COVID-19 has moved both rapidly and unforgivingly across the globe, taking lives and livelihoods with it along the way.

Although a divisive topic, to say the least, the gathering, buying, and selling of data has formed an industry with global staying power over the last few decades. Digital technology has allowed for the rapid expanse of data collection, making rudimentary pre-internet methods pale in comparison to the reach and staying power of even singular players in the data brokerage field.

Mindhive development notes - "Yippee-ki-yay!”

It’s an ominous time for start-ups as 2020 creeps towards its midpoint. As venture spending slows down, private funding cuts are costing new startups their chance at making a difference.

Mindhive is a collective intelligence platform that is free to use. With access to over nine thousand members contributing their experience and expertise, organisations like Austrade, QUT and Deloitte have surfaced unique insights through robust collective discussions.

As Coronavirus (COVID-19) worsens, there has been a surge in demand for collaboration tools. Mindhive provides online collaboration tools for organisations to bring together all parts of your network and staff together no matter where you are.

Before the world cures the latest COVID-19 threat, it must overcome two problems that have run rampant in times of disaster throughout all of recorded history.

Moving into a new decade, the technology around us continues to evolve and is not waiting for us to catch up. A new wave of networking has begun and it's through online collective movements in communities such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Mindhive.

In this new era of rapid and complex change, many believe it will be our ability to harness collective intelligence that will determine how successful we are as communities, organisations and a species.

An advanced preview of Mindhive thought leader Bob Dick's 'Rethinking Leadership' eBook.

There is no shortage of literature on how to embed a culture of collaboration into your team or organisation. Yet many organisations struggle to sustain effective collaboration. Why? Because we invest more in the tools for collaboration than in the development of the human skills required to support it.

For crowdsourcing to fulfil its potential, we need to go beyond idea management to build a global insight community, through which we become collectively more insightful.

First up, what is crowdsourced delivery? Crowdsourced delivery is using crowdsourcing methodology to direct tasks to individuals on an open platform, or in other words outsourcing your jobs and services to the crowd.

Crowdsourcing is more than just a buzz word being used in strategy and innovation circles – it's a game-changer for leaders across policy, community engagement and business management. But what is crowdsourcing and where do you start?

Communities are one of the most powerful drivers in our day to day lives. If you run a business you want to influence a community, but if you're an individual you want to be a part of one. With modern digital technologies, these communities are being transformed from a group of individuals into a powerful resource for collective intelligence, insight and crowdsourcing.

Every thought leader and employee is looking for that new innovative idea to bring into their business. We all know that more heads are better than one, yet when you're on a tight budget or you're stuck in your groove how do you stay ahead of the curve in real-time and bring something relevant to your market. This is where crowdsourcing comes into play, using the power of many to inspire the next great idea.

Simply put, crowdsourcing combines the aspects of knowledge gathering and democratic deliberation, and in this way, provides a path for knowledge-sharing and space for debate that can impact problem-solving and insight.

Growth hacking is the latest buzzword being thrown around the office. Seen as the cheap and most powerful way to gain consumers in a rapid timeline. The idea is to 'hack' into exponential growth among your target market, this is a collaborative and creative effort done not only by marketing but by sales, product and management. What most companies fail to utilise is a key tool in accelerating your Growth hacking strategy... crowdsourcing.

Taken from a speech given by Bruce Muirhead, former CEO of the Eidos Institute (Current CEO of Mindhive) at the HMS Graduation Dinner, The University of Queensland.