TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thompson,Donald N
TI  - Oracles: how prediction markets turn employees into visionaries 
SN  - 9781422183175
U1  - 658.40355 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Harvard Business Review Press
KW  - Business forecasting 2. Decision making 3. Strategic planning 4. Organizational behavior 5. Organizational effectiveness 6. Creative ability in business
N1  - A handful of innovative organizations-GE, Google, Motorola, Microsoft, Eli Lily, even the CIA-has successfully tapped employee insights to change how business gets done.In Oracles, Don Thompson explains how these and other firms use prediction markets to make better decisions, describing what could be the origins of a social revolution. Thompson shows how prediction markets can:draw on the hidden knowledge of every employee,tap the 'intellectual bandwidth' of retired employees, replace surveys and substitute for endless meetings.By showing successes and failures of real organizations, and identifying the common roadblocks they've overcome, Oracles offers a guide to begin testing expertise against the collective wisdom of employees and the market-all to the benefit of their bottom line
ER  -