We Are Smarter Than Me is a collaborative-writing project using wiki software, whose initial goal was producing a book about decision making processes that use large numbers of people.

[2] Initiated by illustrious faculty from the Wharton School and MIT Sloan School of Management The people behind this initiative[3][4] are Barry Libert, CEO of Shared Insights, Jon Spector, vice dean and director of Wharton's Aresty Institute of Executive Education, Thomas W. Malone, Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and founder and director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, Tim Moore, editor-in-chief of Pearson Education and Jerry (Yoram) Wind, Lauder Professor and Professor of Marketing at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and founding director of the Wharton “think tank,” the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management.

According to the project's website,[6] "over a million students, faculty and alumni of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as leaders, authors, and experts from the fields of management and technology were invited to contribute in a wiki-based community that coalesced at wearesmarter.org.

They had reached the following participation statistics[7] by the time the book was ready for publication: The project's website reports that, "In addition to actual community members and contributors, the project was influenced by hundreds of bloggers, Podcasters, and conference attendees at the inaugural Community 2.0 Conference in Las Vegas.

[6] The book contains case studies from several companies, including Eli Lilly and Company, Amazon.com, Dell Computers, Cambrian House, Angie's List and Procter & Gamble The project received wide coverage in US media, including such venues as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, Newsweek and NPR's radio show "All Things Considered".