Tag Archives: General Electric

Is General Electric Imagination Market a joke?

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Emile Servan-Schreiber bends David Perry’s ear. Emile Servan-Schreiber (of NewsFutures): From: Emile Servan-Schreiber Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:45:43 +0200 Subject: Re: GE Imagination Market License That’s pretty funny, considering that the creator of the GE Imagination Market herself concludes … Continue reading →

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Do the top brass really tell everything to the trading employees? Do the EPM traders have access to all the primary indicators?

Posted on September 14, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Prediction markets: the future of decision-making – Companies are now making business decisions based on information employees provide via internal trading systems. – The Times of London – 2008-09-04 “We use them ["them" = the enterprise prediction markets] as another … Continue reading →

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Yet another prediction market newbie who should be meeting with Robin Hanson one on one to get a little injection about conditional prediction markets and how they could be useful for BOTH private decision makers AND public policy makers.

Posted on July 13, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Lewis Sheperd (the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft’s Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments): Indeed, it appears to me that [prediction markets] are growing not from corporate or government use, but mostly organically from within academia, stock-futures circles and political-junkie … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Enterprise Prediction Markets according to Consensus Point and two of its Fortune-500 clients, General Electric and Best Buy.

Posted on November 5, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Koleman Strumpf: 1. David Perry (Consensus Point) Perry shared many lessons learned, and chose to focus people’s attention on the pitfalls of PMs (in addition to their power). Implementation can take a long time. It’s a change management process. Asking … Continue reading →

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Meet John Nafeh, the HedgeStreet brain.

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

HedgeStreet: Dr. John Nafeh – Director John Nafeh is the Founder of HedgeStreet. He combined his expertise in decision analysis and risk management, his experience guiding Internet-related start-ups, and his vision of an Internet-based mass market for risk-hedging financial instruments … Continue reading →

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General Electric’s internal betting exchange: The Imagination Market

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

The imagination market – by Christina Ann LaComb, Janet Arlie Barnett and Qimei Pan – 2007-03-10 Information markets [= prediction markets] are typically used as prediction tools, aggregating opinions about the likelihood of future events, or as preference indicators, identifying … Continue reading →

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Big firms experimenting with internal prediction markets as IAM

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

— Consensus Point: – General Electric – Best Buy – Motorola – Qualcomm – Siemens – Nokia NewsFutures: – Arcelor – Mittal – Corning – Dentsu – IHG – Lilly – MasterFoods – Pfizer – Siemens – Thomson – Yahoo! … Continue reading →

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Nokia said it was restructuring its business to focus on future growth opportunities around converging Internet and telephony services.

Posted on June 20, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Wall Street Journal $$$: Nokia to Restructure Business To Focus on Internet, Telephony Would prediction markets help? Nokia U.S.A. is a client of Consensus Point. Previous: OFFICIAL: Consensus Point clients are Best Buy, General Electric, Nokia, and Samsung. + Email … Continue reading →

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Chris Hibbert to Alex Forshaw: FOSTER YOUR INTERPERSONAL SKILLS.

Posted on April 28, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Chris Hibbert: “Jack [Welch, ex-CEO of General Electric] was essentially saying a graduate business degree was a waste of time.” That’s a misunderstanding of the comment. What Welch was saying was that the most valuable thing the students were paying … Continue reading →

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