All three technologies are well served by the growing number of high-bandwidth IP networks being used to carry communications in the enterprise, and by the growing maturity of the SIP standard; all support the new way of doing business in the global economy; and all offer significant productivity and ROI benefits. Which raises the question: If each technology is valuable alone, wouldn't they be even better together?
Karim Lakhani is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School's Technology and Operations Management Unit. He is a serious scholar of crowdsourcing, trying to build theories of if, how and why it works. In the past he's also written on open source theory and innovation, including articles about Wikipedia and open source science
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