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“Working closely with 100%Open, we tapped into expert communities to create an iPhone application, Do Some Good, where lots of small actions can have a big impact.” Jogesh Limbani, Head of Open Innovation, Orange Labs UK
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No grazing, no milk
May 8, 2012 – 9:56 pm
As I was enjoying a new activity today, baking sourdough bread, my mind turned back to the amazing Do Lectures that Roland and I went to last week. Our plan was to get some time to talk, think and graze in West Wales - a rare moment of quality ...
In Praise of Paradox
April 19, 2012 – 11:23 pm
I've always been fascinated by a good paradox. Whether it's staring at the wonderfully impossible art of Esher, or trying to get get my head around an apparently 2 sided object which only has 1 - namely a Mobiustrip (which it really does by the way - try it). ...
Innovation is meaningless
March 19, 2012 – 1:41 am
This morning I was browsing in an Airport bookshop and I noticed two business magazines had front page articles entitled the 50 most innovative companies. I didn’t look at either magazine but I can already guess who is included in the list – obviously Google and Apple and Facebook with ...
2nd Birthday Lessons Learned
March 16, 2012 – 7:59 pm
100%Open was exactly two years old yesterday. For our 1st birthday we wrote a previous post (here) talking about what we’d learned so far and the headlines were as follows:
i. Trust your Instincts | ii. Authenticity is Everything | iii. Keep it Simple iv. Communicate Constantly ...
The Union – User Makers & Distributed Production
March 15, 2012 – 2:35 am
Last Thursday we hosted our regular quarterly Union Network* meeting at Arup which was particularly interesting and fun so wanted to share what happened and what we learned through this post.
The event was co-curated by Duncan ...
Gifts or Markets?
February 19, 2012 – 2:40 am
It has been shown that if you pay people to give blood, they give less blood.
This is because what was previously seen as a gift has been turned into a market. The payment forces you to assess the value of the transaction and ultimately many people feel it’s not ...
Home of the Future
February 10, 2012 – 10:54 pm
In 2010, we ran a pilot project, Power to the People, that engaged with over 1,000 E.ON customers. Last summer, we opened a new challenge focused on a particular business area, electric vehicles. ...
What are big businesses for?
January 30, 2012 – 2:52 am
Having recently spent a few days in Cornwall - which positions itself as a small business economy with some of the highly innovative companies - it prompted me to rethink what big businesses are actually for? Does ...
How to ensure that idea platforms don’t take employees for granted
January 24, 2012 – 7:19 pm
Businesses are increasingly turning to internal idea platforms to unite their people around innovation. I had only ever thought of this as a positive until I came across this thoughtful post called Are Your Social Business Systems Designed for Extraction or Contribution? CV Harquail's key point ...
