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By Sean Kucer on Oct 18, 2021
Base Rates for Forecasting and Decision-Making
To see the future, one must first see the past. Base rates are a hallmark of good forecasting and decision-making - start using them in your work today.
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By Zach Siewert on Oct 18, 2021
New Series: Everything is Forecasting
Many of our clients find that going through the process of making forecasts and "practicing" improves their "off-platform" decisions. That's why we're starting a new blog series about applying forecasting principles to other areas of life and work.
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By Adam Siegel on Oct 07, 2021
Tracking the Outcome of Strategic Questions with Crowd Forecasting
To understand a big, fuzzy strategic question, you need to break it down into digestible signals you can forecast. Here's how we do it.
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By Zach Siewert on Aug 31, 2021
New Type of Forecasting Interface Creates a Lot of Options
We’re excited to announce the launch of a beta version of a new forecasting capability on the Cultivate platform we’re calling “multi-time period questions.” This new type of forecasting input now gives us the ability to collect several points of input from the forecaster all at once.
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By Adam Siegel on Apr 26, 2021
Don't Let Your Forecasts Get Too Stale
For a long time we've had a rudimentary reminder system a user can set after they make a forecast. But now, we've introduced a more intelligent "nudging" system to ensure a larger percentage of forecasters are updating their forecasts on a regular basis.
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By Thalia Baumgarten on Dec 07, 2020
Small Company Life
Thinking of working for a small company? Here are some of my experiences from joining Cultivate Labs!
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By Vanessa Pineda on Dec 07, 2020
Cultivate Forecasts Latest Updates: Leaderboard filters, source link section, cleansed emails & more
The latest Cultivate Forecasts platform updates as of December 7, 2020.
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By Adam Siegel on Oct 22, 2020
The Unintended Consequences of Running Internal Forecasting Tournaments
Forecasting tournaments are compelling but you should be eyes wide open to some negative consequences if you run them inside your organization.
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By Adam Siegel on Jul 21, 2020
Cultivate Labs Completes its SOC 2 Type 1 Audit
SOC 2 certification is widely recognized as a gold standard for data security and requires companies to establish and follow strict information security policies and procedures.
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By Vanessa Pineda on Jul 02, 2020
Cultivate Forecasts Latest Updates: Infographics, discussion features, and performance feedback
The latest Cultivate Forecasts platform updates as of July 2, 2020.
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By Adam Siegel on Jun 09, 2020
Cultivate Forecasts Latest Updates: Team requests, hot word alerts, reporting features, badges
The latest Cultivate Forecasts platform updates as of June 9, 2020.
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By Adam Siegel on Jun 08, 2020
Expert Q&A: The U.S. Government’s Challenges for Ongoing Risk Communication About COVID-19
An interview with an expert in risk communication about the ongoing challenges of communicating about COVID-19
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By Vanessa Pineda on Apr 24, 2020
Cultivate Forecasts now offers presentation mode to capture live forecasts at meetings
New presentation feature lets people forecast -- and see the results update in real-time.
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By Vanessa Pineda on Apr 23, 2020
Cultivate Forecasts just got a lot more collaborative with team functionality
Forecasting in teams can lead to greater accuracy, and we've got the features to make it possible, like private team pages with discussion boards and team rankings.
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By Adam Siegel on Apr 22, 2020
New Platform to Crowdsource Experts' Forecasts on COVID-19 Pandemic
Partnership by Cultivate Labs and Good Judgment Inc will aggregate forecasts from experts to better understand the implications of the COVID-19 crisis and share the results with decision makers.
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By Adam Siegel on Dec 17, 2019
Prediction Markets give hope to reproducibility crisis in scientific experiments
I talk to Anna Dreber Almenberg, an economist at the Stockholm School of Economics about prediction markets she's running to try and address the reproducibility crisis in science.
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By Adam Siegel on Oct 24, 2019
Schedule Chicken
Schedule chicken is when someone is personally behind on their work, but doesn't say anything because they think someone else will, and take the heat for it, thus protecting their own ass. This apparently goes on at Apple, and is completely absurd. There's another way.
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By Adam Siegel on Oct 15, 2019
Announcing Flashcast
We're excited to announce the availability of a new product, Flashcast. Flashcast is an entirely new way to interact with your audience. Ask them to make predictions about a related topic and watch the results, live.
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By Vanessa Pineda on Jun 13, 2019
Cultivate talks to The Wall Street Journal about internal crowdsourcing
Cultivate Labs and two of our clients, AstraZeneca and the Canadian Nuclear Labs, were featured earlier this week in The Wall Street Journal's, "Companies Turn to Internal Crowdsourcing to Pick Best New Ideas."
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By Adam Siegel on May 31, 2019
We need to make it feel ok to be wrong sometimes
No one enjoys being wrong. It’s an unpleasant emotional experience for any of us. But that’s exactly the risk we’re suggesting people take when we ask them to make a forecast about the future.
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By Vanessa Pineda on May 02, 2019
3 lessons in global innovation from a Fortune 100 that’s winning outside the U.S.
If you’re leading a large team that’s globally dispersed, you understand the challenge to create an innovative culture that can span physical boundaries. Here are 3 lessons from one Fortune 100 client running an innovation campaign across multiple countries that's exceeded expectations in countries including Japan.
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By Adam Siegel on May 02, 2019
Don't Kick Em' When They're Down
As I was scrolling through news this morning, I noticed a headline: Energizer’s 18,000mAh phone-battery monster is an Indiegogo flop. Checking other headlines about this, the news and commentary were equally brutal.
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By Adam Siegel on Mar 14, 2019
The Rise of Anonymous Tough Love (And Not a Moment Too Soon)
When we start projects with our clients, one of the first items we talk about is whether they want people to be anonymous in our prediction market or if they’ll use their real identities. The answer often reveals a lot, both about company culture and their personal fears of what will be made transparent. The spoiler alert is most don’t want anonymity.
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By Adam Siegel on Mar 05, 2019
The Culture of Fear Problem
After working with dozens of companies who have culture initiatives, I’m convinced their multi-million dollar investments in consultants, employee time, internal marketing, and the like will only see a partial return because a blocker is in their way: their culture of fear.
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By Vanessa Pineda on Nov 01, 2018
What are “flash crowds” and how do we recruit them?
Our bread and butter working with clients is organizing their employees to participate in crowdsourcing exercises. Recently we have been approached more to help get forecasts from external crowds, either to support research projects, or to better understand what outside experts or customers think.
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