Innovation Incubator
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An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference , such as high fees, sponsored presentations, and top-down organization. For example, in 2006, CNNMoney applied the term to diverse events including Foo Camp , BarCamp , Bloggercon , and Mashup Camp. [ 1 ] [ edit ] History Many unconference features match the characteristics of the traditional science fiction convention held since the 1930s, events which include many members of the geek community. [ citation needed ]
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This can be established either within an organisation, such as a local authority, or publicly as an open space online platform where people can propose ideas. This is an excellent way for local authorities to harness innovation both internally and externally. Idea Banks also challenge the assumption that innovation is hierarchical or top-down. 2.
# 11 Ideas Bank | The Young Foundation
Our favourite social innovations | The Young Foundation
Last week the Local Innovation team put together a list of its favourite social innovations and social innovation methods. The list celebrates social innovations both big and small. Some are ambitious; others are more modest (basic but brilliant). Some employ new technology, while others harness manpower and technology that's been around for generations. Walking school buses because they instill the importance of exercise in children, build social capital and cohesion, and fight obesity on two legs
The process of social innovation | Social Innovator
This is the stage of idea generation. This can involve formal methods – such as design or creativity methods to widen the menu of options available. Many of the methods help to draw in insights and experiences from a wide range of sources.
I kind of think a lot of innovation comes from applying a certain set of skill sets, maybe just slightly different problems that are outside of your normal working environment, so it just seemed interesting to me... Clark Dale
IdeaConnection: Solve your open innovation challenges.
In December 2011, The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) 2011 forum focused on Designs for the Future, through service design. Joe Heapy spoke about Designing the Practice of Design , exploring the ways that service providers can collaborate together using service design to generate insights and ideas, and to test them. This year's Forum provided an opportunity to learn more about service design, how it has shaped service provision in England, and how IRISS and service providers in Scotland have embraced this approach.
Engine Service Design | Home
In the competitive world of business, what separates an industry's players is often the service that comes with the product offering – the customer experience Businesses and public services alike face huge change in the new information era. They need to shift their emphasis back – to what people really want
Service design | guardian.co.uk
SILK is a small team based within Kent County Council that was set up in 2007 to ‘do policy differently’. Over the past 4 years we have been doing projects which have demonstrated the benefits of working in a different way and have developed a Methodology and Toolkit which provide a structure for the way we work. We believe that the best solutions come from the people who are closest to the issue; this could be service users, residents or frontline staff. We go much further than community consultation and we believe that people should be actively involved in the design of services that they are going to use or deliver. The SILK Methodology provides creative and innovative ways to engage with people and approach projects, and enables a collective ownership and responsibility for project design, delivery and outcomes.
SILK: About SILK
Co-working Spaces: Building a Startup Community
This post is part of our ReadWriteStart channel, which is dedicated to helping savvy entrepreneurs start and grow new businesses with resources, tips, insight and analysis. The channel is sponsored by TriNet . As our "Never Mind the Valley" series demonstrated, startup communities are thriving outside of Silicon Valley. A panel at WebVisions 2010 today in Portland NedSpace and the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) both provide co-working sites in Portland for tech entrepreneurs.
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There are clear strategic steps we can take when walking the Chaordic path. These steps are a way of bringing just enough structure or order into the chaos to keep us moving forward on the chaordic path. These steps allow us to progress gradually giving our project or organisation more form as we progress. The first step is identifying the real need, followed by formulating a clear purpose, then defining the principles that help guide us towards our goal (as attributes or characteristics describing where we want to be or how we want to get there), gradually proceeding to defining a concept, then giving it more structure and moving into practice.These steps can be used both as a planning tool and to help understand what you are discovering about an organisation, community or initiative.