Corporations with higher standards of transparency, purpose, and accountability are becoming more common, especially since the financial crisis, and so is the increasing number of companies who are finding ways to grow a business while considering social good. For those companies, corporate social responsibility (CSR)...
In the book The Naked Corporation, which I mentioned in a previous post, Don Tapscott and David Ticoll refer to an emergent type of firm: The open enterprise; quite an interesting concept that they define as “actively transparent while carefully managing their critical competitive information...
Interest in sustainability and business transparency continues to grow in the management of the enterprises environment, as, for instance, evidenced by recent surveys. Both issues are interlinked. Transparency is a powerful driver for sustainability as well as for efficiency and optimization of supply chains. According to...
Start with the Why by Simon Sinek is one of the books that I read very carefully as of late, as I referred in previous posts ‘Environment of Trust for Open Innovation’ and ‘What makes us succeed?’. In terms of creating spaces for innovation and...
Transparency has an enormous potential as a strategic tool for business. Apart from a very useful instrument to engage partners to create services and products, and build solid relationships based on confidence, being transparent is becoming imperative for companies. Some factors have been decisive in...
Recently, a few articles about digital nomads caught my attention since some of the projects I lead are based on the same idea of ‘work anywhere’ and even ‘produce anywhere’. A funny one is “This Guy Is Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months” published by...
In this post, I’ll share with you an interesting talk by Henry Chesbrough, the “father” of Open Innovation, at ESADE. After three books on the subject, he discusses the importance for companies to create platforms that connect all their services and products into systems and...
The world is becoming more open and transparent. Business relations are also changing. People ask companies for more information and them to their suppliers. In a context of openness, old closed models no longer have a place. This is the case of the black box...
Lots of innovative products fail in their way into the market. Mental models are difficult to change and are one of the biggest barriers for innovation since they determine the level of assimilation that a novel idea finds. On the other side, there are many...
Startups are always a great source of inspiration. Here's an interesting case within the food industry. A social enterprise from which some lessons about transparency, sustainability, and collaboration can be drawn. In the following TEDx Talk and 99U conference, Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez, founders of...