{"id":14247,"date":"2018-08-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/crowdsourcing-company-survival-kit\/"},"modified":"2018-08-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T00:00:00","slug":"crowdsourcing-company-survival-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/crowdsourcing-company-survival-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing: Bolstering Your Company’s Survival Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A company’s very survival relies not on a visionary CEO or group of executives but the collective knowledge of its employees and their ability to collaborate.<\/p>\n

The reality is, despite the spotlight that’s placed on founders, not one CEO or group of executives knows everything.<\/p>\n

New advances in technology, consumer behavioral changes, and a whole host of other factors make it difficult for one or even a handful of individuals to keep up.<\/p>\n

In the competitive environment today, how quickly a company adapts to change is an advantage that’s needed to pull away from the competition.<\/p>\n

How do you adapt quickly if it’s just one person contributing to the company’s roadmap? You don’t.<\/p>\n

As Serial Entrepreneur Andrew Medal points out<\/a> in a recent Entrepreneur.com article: “By leveraging the resources of the crowd, the amount of brain power being applied to any given problem can be exponentially increased.”<\/p>\n

In other words, a company’s biggest advantage is sitting right under their nose: employees. To not tap into this resource to point the business down the right path or surface new opportunities is exactly why companies fall behind.<\/p>\n

Luckily, you don’t have to be one of those companies that fall behind.<\/p>\n

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