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Intro : Imagination: Creating the Future of Education & Work The creative adult is the child who has survived - Ursula Le Guin RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms In February 2011, every teacher in Providence, Rhode Island was pink slipped. Not all 1,926 of them will get fired, of course, but with the district facing a $40 million deficit, anything is possible. The district says it needs flexibility, just in case, but to some, the move invokes the terrible surprise of Pearl Harbor.
Open Services Innovation Section » Open Services Innovation Open Innovation: Key Competitive Factor for Banks The Crowdsourcing.org website reports that the potential that open innovation yields for banks has been captured in a new study released by GFT, a leading international IT solutions providers to the financial sector. It’s increasingly important for financial institutions to differentiate themselves with innovative products and services–including Comments Off • Read this story » More Articles Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Examples Intermediary Platforms Research & Development platforms Innocentive – open innovation problem solvingIdeaConnection – idea marketplace and problem solvingYet2.com – IP market placePRESANS (beta) – connect and solve R&D problemsHypios – online problem solvingInnoget – research intermediary platformOne Billion Minds – online (social) challengesNineSigma – technology problem solvingIdeaken – collaborative crowdsourcingInnovation-community.de – Community of innovators & creators. Marketing, Design & Idea platforms Collective Intelligence & Prediction platforms
Unilever goes crowdsourcing to spice up Peperami's TV ads Peperami's Animal will continue to feature in the ads Unilever is offering $10,000 (£6,087) in a competition to find ideas for its next TV campaign for snack food brand Peperami, using its quirky Animal character, as it decides to drop its ad agency of 16 years and turn to crowdsourcing for creative ideas. The company, which has worked with Lowe on the Peperami brand since 1993, is looking for ideas from people that are a cut above the user-generated content level competitions run by Pringles and Doritos last year. The winner of the Doritos competition claimed to have made the TV commercial for £6.50, while Pringles winner spent £300. Unilever wants to turn the best idea into a TV and print campaign, with the caveat that the ad has to feature the cheeky Peperami character Animal, created by Lowe London. Ideas have to be submitted to a specially created website and will be turned into an ad by the winner with help from specialist agency Smartworks.
Strategos - Helping Companies Innovate and Grow Open Innovation Open Innovation Innovation and entrepreneurship are at the heart of "creative destruction". In his book, Open Innovation, Henry Chesbrough describes a new paradigm of open innovation that is in contrast to the traditional closed model. To understand open innovation, it is worthwhile to review the older model of closed innovation. The Closed Innovation Model Water, Sanitation & Hygiene We focus our grantmaking in five complementary areas: transformative technologies, urban sanitation markets, building demand for sanitation, policy and advocacy, and monitoring and evaluation. Transformative Technologies A key part of our effort to radically improve sanitation in the developing world is our Reinvent the Toilet Challenge (RTTC).
The Zen of Business Plans In my day job, I not only hear a lot of PowerPoint pitches, but I also read a lot of business plans. The PowerPoint pitches explain my Ménière's disease, but the business plans explain my recent need for reading glasses. One of my goals for blogging is to reduce the external factors that are causing the degradation of my body, so this entry's topic is the zen of business plans. Write for all the right reasons. Most people write business plans to attract investors, and while this is necessary to raise money, most venture capitalists have made a “gut level” go/no go decision during the PowerPoint pitch. Receiving (and possibly reading) the business plan is a mechanical step in due diligence.