1. If you were a senior manager at TopCoder, what are the main capabilities you would need to develop to succeed at running the firm? Are these capabilities similar or unique from managing a more traditional firm?
If I were a senior manager at TopCoder, the main capabilities that I would need to develop is effective process management. TopCoder is a community of over 409,000 members and direct the process of competition-based software development. I believe promote company to attract more talents and ability to retain talents and clients are the necessary for a senior manager.
To run many competition simultaneously and solve problems for many clients, attracting new members into the community is primary goal. The host of fortnightly online competitive programming competitions as well as weekly competitions in graphic design and development is a good promotion of company image.
Senior manager should be able to find several ways to retain talents. Great prize and rewards can effectively retain members. TopCoders offers well-paid, creative and challenged task for members. The norms and procedures are also necessary to maintain a community. TopCoder personnel strictly monitored competitions and tolerated no form of cheating and plagiarism.
Also, TopCoders has numerous clients including Amazon, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft. To retain clients, senior manager should make strict procedure and standard of review and evaluation of project to satisfy clients. Senior manager may also improve efficiency of project to response clients' request quick.
The management job at TopCoder is unique, because the community is diverted and members are all over the world. TopCoder can not manage them like the normal company. The developers are even not employees so we can not require for loyalty. Therefore, senior managers are required to have skills to attract and retain talents.
4. Find an example of collective action or an information sharing app. Describe and link to the digital tool. Explain what it does, how it works, and the types of problems it is working to solve. Do not use examples from those discussed specifically in the article (e.g., Airbnb, Lyft, Uber), but there are NEW examples of these and others that you can discuss.
Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org
Unlike traditional encyclopedias, Wikipedia follows the procrastination principle regarding the security of its content.It started almost entirely open—anyone could create articles, and any Wikipedia article could be edited by any reader, even those who did not have a Wikipedia account. Modifications to all articles would be published immediately. As a result, any article could contain inaccuracies such as errors, ideological biases, and nonsensical or irrelevant text. Wikipedia presents a mixture of "truths, half truths, and some falsehoods".
In view of such condition, Wikipedia has the big problem: truthfulness and accuracy. Users would worry about the authenticity of the source and academic essay is usually not allowed to use reference from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is working to solve this problem by adding the function of review of change. Wikipedia provides certain tools allowing anyone to review changes made by others. The "History" page of each article links to each revision. On most articles, anyone can undo others' changes by clicking a link on the article's history page. Anyone can view the latest changes to articles, and anyone may maintain a "watchlist"of articles that interest them so they can be notified of any changes.
However, articles and changes are not systematically reviewed. Articles reviewed by public users still can not increase measurement of accuracy.
In conclusion, Wikipedia's still has a big problem to prove its credibility.
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