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Agnitor delivers value in harnessing the power of global talent,
shared services, and expertise across the domains.Agnitor is born to take the advantages of crowdsourcing —
including the ability to tap into a global talent pool, connect with global experts, and
infuse innovation into delivery. Agnitor has three engagement models for crowdsourcing
the talent that’s often unexplored, invisible, or unexploited. The vision of the Agnitor
is to help the organizations identify the highest levels of experts, masterminds, and
connoisseurs; harness their skills, knowledge, and experience; and engage with them for
transforming customers’ digital business.
Agnitor is a network of elite experts aka "Virtuoso ninja"
helping businesses worldwide and solving their challenges. There are two
engagement models of Agnitor Crowdsourcing:
Expertise As A Service
Agnitor has independent experts on the panel — mostly
crowdsourced using a stringent Agnitor framework of onboarding by
clearly defining and articulating the goals, conducting thorough
background checks on potential problems with quality, security,
integration, and support.
Expertise As Your Resource
Independent consultants, technology, and management experts, global
practitioners can sign into Agnitor network as an expert resource
with their availability cycles. Organizations with an additional or
untapped inventory of their talent can also sponsor their in-house
experts to join the Agnitor network.
Agnitor addresses three sourcing
challenges
CEOs face pressure from clients, stakeholders, and venture capital firms to
lower the cost of operating.Increased pressure to differentiate and compete in the marketplace, CEOs
adopt different strategies — optimizing resources and innovate solutions quickly. Direct
hiring and staff augmentation seem to be a quick solution to address the speed of innovation, but
the activities take time and drive costs, often exceeding the budgets. Not to mention the typical
hiring costs from screening, recruiting, onboarding, and monitoring the performance.
Difficulty Hiring Talent
Inability to find enough IT resources with in-depth domain knowledge, skills, and experience;
massive shortage of talent in geography for a particular budget; lower reliability of people
accepting the offer and joining the company on time as committed.
High Personnel Costs
Resource constraints and increased high personnel costs; Ongoing demand and supply in the
talent market are forcing organizations to hire more; Lower productivity and increased
training/transition costs; Inability to plan and forecast new business and Staff alignment.
Lack of Innovation
Increasing and encouraging innovative solutions; organizations don’t have time or money to
innovate in new market areas; championing open innovation from the crowd — the large
pool of community talent; crowdsourcing ideas beyond borders.
"Crowdsourcing has proven advantageous for generating creative ideas, achieving scientific
breakthroughs, and raising awareness or pooling knowledge among key stakeholder groups."
— Gartner
Expertise Crowd
Coding Talent Crowd
AGNITOR, A NEW MODEL FOR CROWDSOURCING
A mounting body of research on the performance of crowdsourcing systems has
shown significant gains for organizations in terms of speed, quality, and quantity.Agnitor offers end-to-end assistance in scoping a problem, preparing it for
an elite crowd, providing legal support around issues such as intellectual property, instituting
quality controls, and receiving solutions from the crowd.The Crowdsourcing now is a mature and tested concept. Agnitor Crowd
Consultants advise the clients with few recommendations and best practices before embarking on this
journey.
Identify Problems
Virtuos Agnitor Consultants can find problems that are better solved by the crowd. Usually
these problems involve nuances that are difficult to standardize or automate, or they
require specific skills that are unavailable or in scarcity.
Choose Approaches
We help organizations in choosing an appropriate crowdsourcing approach. Understanding the
contours of a given problem facing the IT environment leads to the selection of the right
crowdsourcing approach.
Study the Crowd
We work with the clients to study the crowd, learning the needs, desires, and expectations
that can be accomplished through Agnitor Expertise Crowd (AEC) or any other crowds. Major
activities include the designing of AEC workflow, and align resources.
Account for Risks
Any crowdsourcing can present significant pitfalls, including out-of-control monetary and
labour costs, security vulnerabilities, and quality control issues. But with AEC, there are
collateral benefits that come with well-executed Virtuos.PLUS
project methodology.
At Virtuos Agnitor, our team is meticulous in designing crowdsourcing activities. The skeleton
framework of an Agnitor Expertise Crowd (AEC) is flexible enough to tackle many problems in the
Digital Transformation realm.
WHY AGNITOR? WHERE TO CROWDSOURCE?
Agnitor is better suited to address some problem types through crowdsourcing
over regular outsourcing.Generally, there are two types of problems that can be crowdsourced, and each
problem type can be further divided into two crowdsourcing approaches based on the nature of the
work to be done. The Decision tree below illustrates the four crowdsourcing approaches that align
with different kinds of problems, divided between information management problems, and ideation
problems.
A DECISION TREE ILLUSTRATING PROBLEM TYPES FOR OUTSOURCING.
The Knowledge Discovery and Management Approach
The Knowledge Discovery and Management (KDM) amplifies an organization’s ability to find and
gather critical information into a single place by tasking the Agnitor Crowd with
on-the-ground reconnaissance. For example Agnitor KDM Crowd works very well for generating
Knowledge base and conducting audits within organizations.
Broadcast Search
Broadcast search is an ideation problem which is quite different from a management problem.
An organization would turn to a broadcast search crowdsourcing approach if their internal
R&D or Analytics teams are unable to find a solution for any Data Science or blockchain,
AI / Machine Learning or most advanced challenges.
Distributed Human Intelligence Tasking
The Distributed Human Intelligence Tasking (DHIT) approach involves an organization using a
crowd to assist in the analysis of a dataset that’s already in-hand and has been decomposed
into smaller microtasks. For example tasks related to verification, cleaning, labeling or
transformation of data (most commonly referred as Data Crowd).
Peer-Vetted Creative Production
The Peer-Vetted Creative Production (PVCP) will be used to provide both a creation solution
to a given problem brief and as assessment of other ideas that have been submitted. The PVCP
process allows crowds to have a say in creating and vetting ideas from which they will
ultimately benefit. Examples include conducting a poll for a creative logo, advertising,
etc.
GET IN TOUCH WITH AGNITOR
Agnitor — the first of its kind crowdsourcing platform will be live
with its beta very soon.At Virtuos, we are continuously progressing to use Agnitor as one of the key
differentiators to help organizations access expert services and deliver increased value to their
customers. Currently, we are accepting candidates who have proficiency in any of the following
fields to be a member of Agnitor.