Have you ever asked why social entrepreneurs do often focus that much on scaling up? Especially, when they start thinking on further development of their business already working well on a local level? This is not bad, do not get me wrong, but I just wonder why social enterprise thinking takes the traditional old ways…
Category: innovation
Internal globalization processes are needed
I heard already in the 80s about the elder generation looking for professional studies which they always were interested in, but never had time for. I do not mean the countless participants in beginner courses for language studies who are always well visited and caused by motivations such as being able to talk to people…
Why pure innovation does not change the world
I think there are and there must be a lot of innovators in the world. Just thinking about all the scientists at the universities, the huge number of promotions and habilitations. Or the frequent claims and visions of huge companies which announce how important they rate innovation. Probably, they really support innovative thinking and spend…
Crakakuiooi….About implementing innovative business models
I bet you are also looking for innovation – or at least for innovative ideas. Which is nothing bad, although I feel this term is somehow becoming ‘boring’ – everyone talks about innovation, innovate this, innovate that … Just think about the innovative market behind: Do you know all the techniques and processes on how…
Knitting together Arts and social change – and why not add business?
“The twentieth century has transformed the entire planet from a finite world of certainties to an infinite world of questioning and doubt. So if ever there was a need to stimulate creative imagination and initiative on the part of individuals, communities and whole societies the time is now. The notion of creativity can no longer…
Mobile learning in Africa – more networking needed
Staying last week at the Vision Summit I learnt some more details about mobile learning initiatives in Africa in the education sector. Mobile communication is for certain one of the best and rather easily affordable ways to reach also people suffering from poor infrastructure in rural areas. The examples shown were impressive, the level of…
Social change does not work like business change
Social change does not work like a business change. Social change organizations are not exactly like business. A different context defines the problems and a different mind-set is required to approach the work. Easy, isn’t it?Everybody knows. But it is so hard to deal with when business meets social. It just starts with the language….
Networking and cooperation – across all borders
In our daily lives we have a lot of networks. Networks are not really new. I mean thinking about the railway system, the telephone net, the network structures in many industries it is nothing that has been invented just in the last years or has raised just due to the huge digital wave we have…
Can gamification change the world?
Some days ago I came across a social game trailer showing how a young girl from a developing country run across a huge number of difficulties to get a bucket of clean water and to carry it home as soon as possible for being able to get back at school. The ‘difficulty’ manager – of…
Why to start from Zero? – Focus on community participation
The best results are always achieved together Which is your strategy? Who are your stakeholders? What do you want to achieve? How to finance? Probably these and similar issues are the questions most of us ask when starting a (social) business. So far, so good. But what has been done when having the answers to…
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