How Spotify Balances Employee Autonomy and Accountability
The squad structure achieves autonomy without sacrificing accountability. Every squad owns its features throughout the product’s life cycle, and the…
Learning social network embeddings for predicting information diffusion
Analyzing and modeling the temporal diffusion of information on social media has mainly been treated as a diffusion process on known graphs or…
Teams vs. Crowds: A Field Test of the Relative Contribution of Incentives, Member Ability, and Collaboration to Crowd-Based Problem Solving Performance
Organizations are increasingly turning to crowdsourcing to solve difficult problems. This is often driven by the desire to find the best subject…
The Secret of Buckminister Fuller’s World-Changing Ideas Was Serendipity
In his 2016 book, You Belong to the Universe, Jonathon Keats sets out to release Buckminister Fuller from “the zany sci-fi designs that made him…
Self-segregation: how a personalized world is dividing Americans
It’s a fact: while Americans have countless tools with which to connect with one another, we are also watching fragmentation, polarization, and…
Mathematical Model Reveals the Patterns of How Innovations Arise
Innovation is one of the driving forces in our world. The constant creation of new ideas and their transformation into technologies and products…