Presentation to Conference Board's Innovation Conference
I was asked by Art Hutchinson, to be part of a panel at The Conference Board “2005 Growth and Innovation Conference,”
May 25 in New York. Our panel was supposed to address how it might be
possible to use prediction markets to “measure innovation
success,” that is, to justify future investment, create new
opportunities, reward star performers and to determine when an idea
should be abandoned.
Here are the slides from my presentation in
which I gave an overview of why the Merrill program is successful and
then focused on how programs like it can be expanded, improved, and
accelerated by using such new technologies and tools as enterprise RSS
and prediction markets to benefit from the collective intelligence of
the group.

