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Do businesses need enterprise prediction markets?

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Competitive advantage can be obtained either by differentiation or by low cost. Enterprise prediction markets certainly don’t foster the innovation process, and they are surely not the cheapest forecasting tool. EPMs require special software, the hiring of consultant(s), the participation … Continue reading →

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Industry), Cases, Collective Decision Making, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Exchanges & Markets | Tagged Best Buy, betting markets, businesses, CEOs, Circuit City, Collective Decision Making, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence, competitive advantage, corporate prediction markets, cost cutting, enterprise prediction markets, event derivative markets, innovation, internal prediction markets, prediction markets, private prediction markets, technology intelligence, The Truth About Prediction Markets | 6 Comments

Dawn Tevekelian Keller wants to convince your boss to adopt enterprise prediction markets.

Posted on July 4, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Dawn Tevekelian Keller (formerly at Best Buy) does not write for Robin Hanson et al.: This blog is not geared toward the existing Prediction Market intelligentsia. While I would be honored to have fellow enthusiasts read and critique this blog, … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Meta), Cases, Collective Forecasting, Exchanges & Markets | Tagged Best Buy, business cases, case studies, Collective Forecasting, collective intelligence that predicts, corporate prediction markets. private prediction markets, Dawn Keller, Dawn Tevekelian Keller, enterprise prediction markets, information aggregation, internal prediction markets, prediction markets | Leave a comment

How Best Buy gather the collected wisdom of customers and employees to better predict future events

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Meta), Cases, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Exchanges & Markets | Tagged Best Buy, Betting, Collective Intelligence, corporate prediction markets, enterprise prediction markets, internal prediction markets, Jeff Severts, McKinsey, prediction markets, private prediction markets, Todd Henderson, wisdom of crowds | Leave a comment

Is Spigit stealing the Best Buy quotes on enterprise prediction markets that does in fact belong to Consensus Point (which is the software vendor that has Best Buy as its customer)?

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Look at the quote at the bottom of this webpage. UPDATE: They have just brought the Best Buy quote down.

Posted in Consulting, Exchanges & Markets, Software | Tagged Best Buy, Consensus Point, enterprise prediction markets, Prediction Market Software, prediction markets, software for enterprise prediction markets, software for prediction markets, Spigit | Leave a comment

How Best Buy make use of their prediction market software

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Here are 2 videos about how Best Buy use the “Web 2.0″ information technology (and that includes enterprise prediction markets) to further their business. – One short video: – One long video: -

Posted in Cases, Consulting, Exchanges & Markets, Software | Tagged Best Buy, betting exchanges, betting markets, business cases, case studies, Consensus Point, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, prediction markets software, Software, software for enterprise prediction markets, software for prediction markets | Leave a comment

WSJ on Best Buy’s enterprise prediction markets

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

WSJ on Best Buy’s enterprise prediction markets — $$$ — Use this trick to access the content. APPENDIX: A good blog post on enterprise prediction markets

Posted in Cases, Exchanges & Markets | Tagged Best Buy, corporate prediction markets, enterprise prediction markets, internal prediction markets, private prediction markets | 2 Comments

The best presentations from the world’s best conference on enterprise prediction markets —ever

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Awesome slides in bold. Brought to you by Koleman Strumpf (circa November 2007): – Henry Berg, Microsoft <slides> Discussant: Robin Hanson (George Mason Department of Economics) <slides> – Christina Ann LaComb, GE (The Imagination Market; abstract is free, text is … Continue reading →

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Meta), Cases, Exchanges & Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Software | Tagged Best Buy, Bo Cowgill, CEO, Chapman University School of Law, Christina Ann LaComb, Co-Founder and CEO, Co-Founder and President, Consensus, Consensus Point, corporate prediction markets, David Perry, Dawn Keller, enterprise prediction markets, Founder and CEO, GE, General Electric, George Mason, George Mason Department of Economics, Google, Henry Berg, internal prediction markets, Jim Lavoie, Kellogg, Koleman Strumpf, Marco Ottaviani, Market Scoring Rules, Mat Fogarty, Microsoft, MSR, prediction markets, President, private prediction markets, Rite, Rite-Solutions, Robin Hanson, School of Management, Tom W. Bell, Xpree, Xpree Inc | Leave a comment

The Promise Of Enterprise Prediction Markets — The McKinsey conference should have been rooted in the economic science and McKinsey should have invited economists.

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

McKinsey: The Promise Of Prediction Markets James Surowiecki: The premise is that under the right circumstances, the collective judgment of a large group of people will generally provide a better picture of what the future might look like than anything … Continue reading →

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Meta), Cases, Exchanges & Markets, Explainers | Tagged Best Buy, Bo Cowgill, corporate prediction markets, enterprise prediction markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Google, internal prediction markets, James Surowiecki, Jed Christiansen, McKinsey, MSR technology, prediction markets, private prediction markets, Robin Hanson | 2 Comments

McKinsey: The Promise Of Enterprise Prediction Markets

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

McKinsey: The Promise Of Prediction Markets With Bo Cowgill (Google) and James Surowiecki (The Wisdom Of Crowds). Registration needed. This is the transcript of the roundtable of the recent McKinsey conference at Dubai, United Arab Emirates. I’ll excerpt this document, … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Meta), Cases, Exchanges & Markets | Tagged Best Buy, Bo Cowgill, corporate prediction markets, Dubai, Enterprise Prediction, enterprise prediction markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Google, internal prediction markets, James Surowiecki, McKinsey, prediction markets, private prediction markets, The Wisdom Of Crowds, United Arab Emirates | Leave a comment

The New York Times article doesn’t mention Google’s enterprise prediction markets, alas. — Bo Cowgill says that the illustration published in the sidebar defines exclusively what is done at Google.

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Right-click on the New York Times graphic below, open Bo Cowgill’s post in another browser tab, and read his arguments. – Image Credit: Chris Gash for the New York Times – Adam Siegel of Inkling Markets is also out with … Continue reading →

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