Skip to content
Theme : enterprise
-
The Change Masters
Fast Company have just announced the winners of their 2005 Social Capitalist Awards. Have a look at their list of the 25 best social enterprises here.
from : juliahuber
14th January 2005
-
Community Interest Companies
Will Davies has a piece in this week's New Statesman about 'Community Interest Companies'. They're one of the types of organisation that our forthcoming Future of Organisations project tips to be much more influential in 10 years time.
from : paulmiller
9th September 2004
-
Trade unions of the future?
As part of our project on The Future of Organisations we're looking for an international example that might point to how trade unions in the UK might work in 10 years time. Any suggestions?
from : paulmiller
7th September 2004
-
Publish this blog
One of the coolest pieces of kit in our new office is by far the saddle stitcher on our Canon. Alright, so I may be alone in my evangelism, but it does do one thing very, very well. It prints pdfs as A4 and A5 booklets. For that matter, drop in a stack of single-sided pages, tap a few keys, and after a bit of rumbling it spits out a nicely folded, properly paginated, double-stapled book -- while using only a quarter of the paper you scanned.We're getting close to a big reinvention here folks,...
from : petermacleod
16th August 2004
-
The Mouse is Mightier than "The Man"
Using an arsenal of technical jiggery pokery and raiding a superstore of intellectual property, Danger Mouse's "The Grey Album" takes the Beatles "White Album" and Jay-Z's "The Black Album" and cuts them together to form the bootleg to end all bootlegs. For those of you not familiar with any of the above this is the musical equivalent of boiling up mustard and strawberry ice cream to make turkey roast.Unsurprisingly, as soon as EMI got wind of this they served a "cease and desist" order on...
from : charlietims
25th March 2004
-
Religion and Riches
Apparently religion makes you richer, well if you're a country anyway. There's an interesting article in the Economist (via aldaily.com) about the work of Harvard economists Robert Barro and Rachel McCleary. As the piece puts it: "The most striking conclusion is that belief in the afterlife, heaven and hell are good for economic growth. Of these, fear of hell is by far the most powerful, but all three indicators have a bigger impact on economic performance than merely turning up for church."
from : paulmiller
20th November 2003
-
Yu-Gi-Oh madness
New Japanese phenomenon Yu-Gi-Oh is set to be the stocking filler craze of Christmas.High Street giants Woolworths say Japanese hit Yu-Gi-Oh based on a TV show will fly off the shelves.A Woolworths spokesman said: ``Young parents see the toys they used to play with and buy them for their kids. The toy companies are being very clever.''It's interesting to witness the sheer variety of crossplatform marketing and manufacturing opportunities for this idea. Cards, computer games, TV programmes: a...
from : alistairdavidson
5th November 2003
-
Wither the Creative Classes?
From the pieceIn Rajhastan, travelling storytellers go from village to village, unannounced, and simply start a performance when they arrive. Although each story has a familiar plot - the story telling tradition dates back thousands of years - each event is unique. Prompted by the storytellers, who hold up pictorial symbols on sticks, the villagers interact with the story. They joke, interject, and sometimes argue with the storyteller. They are part of the performance. Hearing about these...
from : alistairdavidson
21st October 2003
-
DIY Diamonds
Wired magazine details two new processes for producing artificial (but cheap) diamonds - potentially revolutionary breakthroughs. In the future diamond will replace silicon in computer chips allowing much faster speeds. The question for now is whether consumers are happy to buy artifical diamond engagement rings - and break De Beers stranglehold on the market.Read the article - which comes complete with DIY instructions...
from : alistairdavidson
14th August 2003
-
Nano-marketing
Apparently nano is not just a new technology, but also the latest buzz word for marketing all sorts of goods and services.One of these is the 'nano-bag' to put babies in (?!), but there has been an explosion of others too.Read more here
from : gillianthomas
12th August 2003
