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Motorola uses a prediction-market variant to determine which among thousands of employee-submitted ideas merit a further look.

February 10, 2010

In 2003 Motorola rolled out a system through which employees could propose ideas for products or anything else that might boost the company's value. By one measure it was an unqualified success: it produced 10,000 ideas over the next four years. Read more...

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