We are excited to announce the launch of a 2-day Accelerator event to accelerate your innovation process through collaborative innovation and the wisdom of the crowd with 100% Open. Read more.
New article in The GuardianNew article in The Guardian about generalists vs. specialists in innovation and leadership; and how important sense-making is in an age of deeply complex societies, exceptionally inter-connected consumer-citizens and increasingly bipartisan governments. Read more.
Keynote at The Economist & Design Council SummitIt’s an intense 12 minute talk covering the seismic impact of social media on business and how organisations can thrive in the collaborative age. Click on the 3rd video above to watch it now. Read more.
End of Tax Year Toolkit OfferThinking how to make the most of your remaining budget? Why not pilot our toolkit and see how it performs at empowering your team and shifting your culture towards being more collaborative and innovative. To help kick-start the process, we are offering all clients who order 20 toolkits or more 50% more for free. Orders must be recived by April 4th 2010. Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) now to order. Read more.
The public and 3rd sectors must evolve if they want to innovate.New article by Nick Jankel on overcoming the many barriers to collaboration in government. In Public Finance magazine.Read more.
Special offer to celebrate new US office opening in California.To celebrate our new US office opening, we are offering a 40% discount on all toolkit orders over 10 until 14th December! .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to grab yours. Read more.
Do you trust the fabulous powerpoint presentation and the glowing numbers from the management consultants showing the potential profits of a new innovation they have dreamed up... or do you trust your intuition that the path leads elsewhere? Read more.
Keeping the grey hair aroundAlthough it is tempting to dismiss the grey hair in an organization as having out-dated ideas about how to do business - and little idea of radical changes brought about by social media, open innovation and other new ways of doing things - we should be warned. Research within chimpanzees Read more.
Behavior spreads like wild fire in social networksWhen one person at work starts to lose their creative edge - watch out. It could soon be you. That’s the lesson from a recent paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read more.
Forget the bonus. A bottle of wine works better in collaborationsIt's a tough challenge - how do you reward people in a successful collaboration, when collaborators have different skills, responsibilities and agendas gauging how much 'effort' has been put in is tricky. A study recently published in Psychological Science has some answers. Read more.
