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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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Open CSR Breakfast
May 24, 2013 – 2:57 am
Material Change
Thanks again to our great speakers at last week’s OpenCSR breakfast briefing.
You can see the slides here.
Carrina Gaffney from Volans emphasised the need for innovation to lead Breakthrough Capitalism. Helping companies to integrate environmental, social and governance concerns into their business models and evolve ...
Mind the (Agility) Gap
May 14, 2013 – 3:21 am
The gap between the growth and agility of large and small businesses is widening. But in a networked world, the need to bridge that gap is also increasing.
Today saw the launch of Lord Young's report 'Growing Your Business'. I went ...
Has CSR reached its sell-by date?
May 9, 2013 – 2:06 am
This was the challenging question asked at Business in the Community’s Responsible Business Week.
We attended and the answer was broadly yes in its current form, but both audience and panel agreed that business is nevertheless best placed to make the changes needed to support our growing societies into ...
Jumping the Collaboration Hurdles
May 3, 2013 – 2:53 am
No matter who you are, not all of the smart people work for you. So tapping into the smart people outside of your organisation ought to be a no brainer, but in reality it often isn’t. Interestingly the biggest challenge of external collaboration is often internal, so in this article ...
Don’t Bother Reading This…
April 27, 2013 – 10:18 pm
Is anybody reading this? Part of me is happy if you are, but to be honest it doesn't actually matter. Whilst it's always great to have a conversation with somebody on the back of something I've written, I've realised that the main benefit to me of writing is to help ...
Looking for Solutions from the Unlikeliest of Sources
April 26, 2013 – 6:23 pm
Sometimes your biggest opportunity can come come from where you least expect it. In this article I'll show how formidable steps in innovation have been taken on the back of the most unusual partnerships as illustrated in the following five examples.
Firstly, take the Japanese Shinkansen bullet train, capable of speeds ...
Interplay: innovate better together
April 16, 2013 – 1:00 pm
We are pleased to have already had a lot of interest in our new one day collaborative innovation workshop and training proposition called Interplay, that we've developed together with Creative Huddle, the Brighton based creativity training experts. Please see below a short overview of what Interplay is all about ...
The Market for Open Innovation 2013
April 13, 2013 – 10:23 pm
The most comprehensive review of the open innovation marketplace that we know of has just been published, called The Market for Open Innovation 2013. It is available here for industry watchers and participants. It is ...
Union Day
March 27, 2013 – 10:26 pm
Following on from our blog here about unadventurous innovation conferences, we've started the process of co-creating an alternative. Rude not to! If there's enough interest we hope to hold a Union Day event in the Autumn.
Thanks to everyone who ...
The Arrogance and the Elegance
March 23, 2013 – 9:33 pm
As a (recovering) physicist, I find my chosen field of study both exhilarating and obnoxious. It has played a major role in the current economic slump as so many physicists ended up as 'quants' in the city, with sometimes impressive and often disastrous consequences [ref]. ...
