Crowdsourcing from the community to resolve complex service requests

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Abstract

The VMware Community may provide an opportunity to VMware to tap into the collective intelligence of its 2.4 million strong members to generate intelligent responses to complex Service Requests (SRs). Bill Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems, put it well when he said: "No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else..!". The data generated from the vSlua project using an Action Design Research approach shows that the Community resolves lower complexity SR issues efficiently, but begins to struggle as the complexity increases. Almost 50% of all the SRs were answered and over 50% of the answered SRs were resolved in under 6 hours.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Open Collaboration Companion, OpenSym 2017
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)9781450354172
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Aug 2017
Event13th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2017 - Galway, Ireland
Duration: 23 Aug 201725 Aug 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Open Collaboration Companion, OpenSym 2017

Conference

Conference13th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2017
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityGalway
Period23/08/1725/08/17

Keywords

  • Action research
  • Community
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Design research
  • Industry-Academia collaboration
  • Service requests

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