Article ID: | iaor20103563 |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 144 |
End Page Number: | 153 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2010 |
Journal: | Interfaces |
Authors: | Chen Li, Goes Paulo, Harris Wynd, Marsden James, Zhang John |
Keywords: | innovation |
Companies face constant challenges to appropriately rank and select innovative technologies for potential strategic investments, and they have used many methodologies to help them with this task; however, these existing processes have several limitations. This paper showcases how information preference markets can be structured and implemented to rank and select these technologies. We demonstrate the market process for a leading company in the Fortune 100 companies list. The results are encouraging and have persuaded the company to make a significant financial commitment to expand its use of preference markets. The work we present here offers readers a step-by-step illustration of how to develop and use preference markets in industry settings.