Chaordix Selected One of 44 Companies to Win the Worldwide Award for Democracy in the Workplace
CALGARY, Alberta, April 13, 2010 — Chaordix(TM), a provider of managed crowdsourcing communities, today was announced as a winner of the 4th Annual Worldblu Most Democratic Workplace Award 2010 – a groundbreaking global award that shines a spotlight on visionary organizations successfully practicing organizational democracy.
"Openness is at the core of what we do," said Shelley Kuipers, President and Chief Executive Officer at Chaordix. "Crowdsourcing is based on the science that intelligent answers occur when you invite in and synthesize input from diverse and passionate people. It's our mission to foster democratic collaboration with our team, with our clients, and with the crowds that we manage crowds for innovation and research. It's an honor to be recognized for our efforts by Worldblu, and to be peers with other companies that we respect."
Other winners included leading organizations such as Zappos, Meetup, and the Grammy(R) Award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, based in New York City. There were also for-profit and non-profit organizations from across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the U.K., India, the Netherlands, and Malaysia from several different industries, such as technology, healthcare, telecommunications, media, manufacturing, aerospace and retail, representing over $12 billion in combined annual sales.
The Worldblu survey, evaluates an organization's practice of ten democratic principles, including: transparency, integrity, dialogue and listening, accountability and choice on leadership, individual, systems, and processes.
About Chaordix
Chaordix specializes in managed crowds for innovation and social research. We enable organizations to engage a crowd via the web to submit, discuss and often refine and rank submissions to discover the most-likely-to-succeed solutions. The crowd may be consumers, employees, partners or other select memberships. The purpose of the crowd is to discover and test market demand and preferences, co-create products and services, solve previously unsolvable technical or R&D problems, and achieve relevant and enduring brands. We provide services to identify, recruit, engage and manage crowds for productive input and deliver the technology that is home to the people that matter most in your market. Find out more about us at http://www.chaordix.com.
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