Ideagoras for Matching Knowledge Workers with Unique Problems

It has been said that chance favors the prepared mind. Ideagoras have helped to take the chance out of the equation. Think about it. Every single person in the world has a unique set of knowledge and experience, and each task, job, function, problem, or project in the world would be best performed by one specific person in the world who holds the best, unique set of skills and experience. When you think about it, if you had the chance to review every single person’s qualifications, and have somehow narrowed it down to five unique people with the specialized skills to complete your task. Still one of those five will be better prepared to handle it than the others. Of course this is the ideal situation if time and money were not an issue in the recruiting process. If we apply the uses of ideagoras to this problem, we break down a lot of the physical barriers to posing a task to prospective knowledge worker problem solvers.

Companies presumaby want to have access to the maximum number of applicants as possible, and applicants want access to the most opportunities as possible, pending the physical limitations of time, distance, and cost. Since ideagoras have been enabled by the internet, the time, distance, and cost limitations can be removed from the equation.

Companies that use ideagoras  have been expanding their R&D departments to anyone in the world with the skills and knowledge to solve their specific problems. This has been leveraged by the fact that many of the world’s brightest minds are seeking more meaningful work outside of the traditional confines of the normal corporation’s knowledge jobs. Companies can now work backward with their traditional product development cycle. They can now determine what their customers really need, and then use ideagoras to seek the innovation, intellectual property, and technology needed to produce that product. In a way, a common use for ideagoras is that they are becoming a sort of auction house for knowledge, just like Ebay has become an auction house for physical goods and services.

Ideagoras can match knowledge workers with unique problems based on the fact that ideas and innovations are increasingly originating from outside corporate walls. Also helping the equation is the fact that  the internet has created web-based virtual talent pools where freelance knowledge workers are stepping in to fill the need.