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16. Tackling Executive Challenges Through Graduate Crowdsourcing

Author : Henrik Totterman

Published in: New Leadership in Strategy and Communication

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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This chapter describes how executives benefit from exploration when solving business challenges. Similar to the notion of crowdsourcing, exploratory learning is a process, which progresses from problem scoping to executable outcomes. Graduate crowdsourcing can drive innovation and business transformation, and opens opportunities for business, science, and social collaboration. Graduates typically represent a range of competences and cultures, and are typically equipped with a curiosity and eagerness to solve real business challenges. The ultimate challenge for most executives and organizations is to transform or create new business. A business school environment is great for such challenges, as learning takes often place through real-world problems solving with practical implementation in mind.

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Title: Tackling Executive Challenges Through Graduate Crowdsourcing
Author: Henrik Totterman
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: New Leadership in Strategy and Communication
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-19680-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-19681-3

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19681-3_16