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It’s the end of the year. This post is a reflection of the Collaborative Economy market and Crowd Companies in 2014, as well as a look towards what lies ahead. The Collaborative Economy was a leading business topic of 2014. Over the past year, the … Continue readingCrowd Companies: The Year in Review and Planning for 2015
LeWeb Deck: 2015 The Year of the Crowd from Jeremiah Owyang In the embedded presentation above, I assert that 2015 Is the Year of the Crowd, and make the point in a few ways: The growth in nearly every sector of society with the … Continue reading2015 Is the Year of the Crowd (Slides & Video)
Above Image: Honeycomb 2.0, click and access multiple sizes stored on Flickr, Please share widely, with attribution, non-commercially. The first version had six industries –now it’s twelve I’ll be releasing this graphic on stage tomorrow at LeWeb conference in Paris, on a session called 2015: The … Continue readingCollaborative Economy Honeycomb 2 –Watch it Grow
Above image: Social Business Replicated by Collaborative Economy, Ver 1.1If you’re a social business professional, you’re in a prime spot to advance your career to the next phase: the Collaborative Economy. For over ten years, I was a social business professional. I helped Hitachi launch … Continue readingThe Collaborative Economy is Replicating Social Business #socbiz
Click on the above image, or you can advance to the Spreadsheet of the Collaborative Economy Funding, to see a multi-tab analysis of funding, which I update on a regular basis. Caveat: This sheet is incomplete: People continually submit new data to me, and early stage funding is … Continue readingMassive Spreadsheet: Collaborative Economy Funding
Social networks were the first phase of digital P2P. They enabled anyone to create media and then share it. The Collaborative Economy is the second phase. It enables anyone to create goods and share what they already own. So, how similar or different are the … Continue readingFunding Comparison: Social Networks vs Collaborative Economy
Below is my most recent essay to the WSJ Accelerator series, a dedicated section for the the fast-moving business audience. In this essay, I explore how we’re drinking our own champagne at Crowd Companies, by exploring and adopting crowd-based services. The Ups and Downs of … Continue readingWSJ Essay: The Ups and Downs of Crowd-Based Resources
Your customers are making their own goods in the Maker Movement and sharing their resources, rather than buying them from you! Do you know why? We’ve conducted pragmatic research via interviews and other methods to find out. Consumers don’t need to continually buy from traditional companies because they are making, … Continue readingThe Three Reasons the Collaborative Economy is Happening Now
Below: see embedded slides, also on Slideshare Disruption Data: The Collaborative Economy Enables P2P Commerce from Jeremiah Owyang Ten years ago, we forecasted that social media would be disruptive to corporations. It was, but mainly to marketing functions, customer care, and corporate communications functions. Fast … Continue readingSlides and Data: The Collaborative Economy Disrupts Revenue
The longest graphic in the history of my career is embedded below, some mobile devices may not properly render. As the Crowd Economy Rises, Brands Seek to Collaborate We’ve been tracking corporations in the Collaborative Economy, and released version 1.0 in April, 2014. Now, as we … Continue readingTimeline: Corporations in the Collaborative Economy (Ver 2, Oct 2014)
