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No Contest: The Cost of Crowd-based Social Innovation
The madness of crowds (sourcing)? Contests are seen by many in the social sector as a way to engage audiences and generate new thinking about important issues, yet in generating all of these...
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The Ecology of Innovation: Part 1 – Ideas
Innovation Ecology There is a tendency when looking at innovation to focus on the end result of a process of creation rather than as one node in a larger body of activity, yet expanding our frame of...
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It’s final paper and exam time at the university so that means one thing: procrastination. Procrastination also yields a lot of unusual thinking so with a nod to the serious and the silly, I’ve managed...
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The Tyranny of Text in Creating Innovative Systems
By plindberg via Flickr. Used under creative commons licence Yesterday I attended another one of the fabulously inspiring Unfinished Business lectures put on by my friends from the Strategic Innovation...
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Coffee Culture and Ideas: A Need for A Break
A little departure this week. Think of it as a coffee break. There is a theory that the Industrial Revolution and the intellectual flourishing that came from it in England was due to one thing: coffee....
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Innovation Inbox
The latest issue of the Censemaking Innovation Newsletter is out. Looking for a better coffee break?: just open your inbox. Innovation is not a topic bereft of content: it’s the opposite. There’s so...
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Shifting Your Innovation Goals & Goalposts
What if the best way to accomplish a goal was to not have one or to keep it changing? That’s innovation. If you tightly define what you want, and succeed, all you get is exactly what you expected. You...
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Ties That Bind and Release Innovation
Networks are largely irrelevant to humans unless you look at the strength and quality of the ties within them Technology is allowing us to connect in ways that were once unthinkable. While tech tools...
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The Shifting Sands of Marketing
Marketing is the innovator’s lifeline and without a reliable platform that line is at risk of being severed. Marketing is simply the way we reach out to people and engage them in what we’re doing....
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Taking Ideas Into Sustainable Innovation
One bright idea is pretty but a collection of ideas put into practice over time, sustainably, is beautiful (and real innovation). Sustainable innovation — a process, practice, and culture of...
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