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- How Companies Are Using IT To Spot Innovative Ideas - (3 pages) - by Information Week’s David Greenfield - 2008-11-10 - An interview with InTrade’s Chad Rigetti and John Delaney - 2008-11-xx — Much smarter than the idiotic interview Chad Rigetti gave some time ago .  ...
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economistsview.typepad.com — Trade protection and growth - Dani Rodrik Gallup’s New Job Market Measure - Economix Obama should spend on healthcare to boost US economy - Dean Baker Inefficiency in aquaculture? - John Whitehead Triple "Ut-Oh": End of the ... (more) links for 2008-11-18
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Knowledge ProblemChris Masse at Midas Oracle links to "How Companies Are Using IT To Spot Innovative Ideas," an article at Information Week. Among the examples cited: ...Starbucks uses the same voting platform, at MyStarbucksIdea.com, and took an online suggestion posted Oct. 7 by BillMac to offer a free cup of coffee Nov. 4 to anyone in the United States who voted. As it turned out, at least in some jurisdictions it is illegal to offer inducements to vote and Starbucks decided to offer a free cup of coffee to anyone who asked for ...

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