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A growing movement that combines open source design with sustainability is creating an exciting alternative to profit-driven, proprietary sustainability products. As we face urgent issues like climate change, the ability of open source communities to quickly and inexpensively create solutions makes increasing sense. 
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Tools to help you get ideas off the ground quickly.
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How can organizations support our authentic and meaningful engagement in work we actually care about? How can we value openness, participation, reputation, legitimacy, connectivity, and abundance in the way we work together? How can we can organize in ways that liberate rather than stifle our creati
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The Global Commission on Business and Sustainable Development — a new commission launched Thursday at the World Economic Forum by the former UN Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch-Brown and Unilever CEO Paul Polman — will work over the next year to articulate and quantify the compelling economic case for businesses to engage in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
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The first book of the FutureScapes series by Fast Future Publishing. The Future of Business features the ideas of 60 leading futurists and global thinkers.
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"Economists typically talk about “transaction costs” but I’m deliberately using the term “coordination costs”. Transactions (a la Coase) typically involve money, and certainly require at least contractual obligations. Coordination by contrast only depends on voluntary cooperation. Transaction costs will always be higher than coordination costs, because transactions require the ability to enforce the terms of the transaction. This imposes additional costs — often enormously larger costs.
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Hotel operator Hyatt akes a stake in company that books short-term stays at high-end homes in London, New York, Paris and Los Angeles, a business challenging lodging companies.
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This year’s Future of Work conference looks at how business owners and managers can live with and even embrace the twin riptides of technology and globalisation.
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The Open Source Specialist Group, in association with Sheffielf Hallam University are hosting a series of talks on Open Source in Business.
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Learn how sharing economy companies are changing the customer-brand relationship.
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In the first of our new series exploring The Future of Work, we explore one of the trends changing how we work: the digital revolution.
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The virtualization technology that has expanded the capacity of datacenters is gradually shifting to telecommunications and other networks via a growing list of cloud approaches that are enabling software-defined solutions like network functions virtualization.
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Enterprise social collaboration tools are out there waiting for IT to take notice.
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The characteristics of chaordic organizations
• Are based on clarity of shared purpose and principles. • Are... https://t.co/I3Vfd9bMVw
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The concepts of sharing economy and collaborative consumption have taken the entrepreneurial world by storm in the past few years.
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jean lievens's insight:
cultural categories that oppose marketplace modes of behavior (or “market logics”) with the more family-like modes of behavior of caring and sharing that we observe in close-knit communities (”community logics”). When we start to pay people for a particular “transaction” then that becomes culturally coded as a “market logic”–market logics are in effect. This signifies to the person a set of meanings:
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Center for Planetary Culture advances new ideas and solutions to today’s most challenging ecological, social, and political issues.
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A summary of how Tor works and how you can use it. It also covers The Tor Browser Bundle, Hidden Services, Tails and looks at some of the controversies around Tor.
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We are witnessing an evolutionary step change in how we operate and organize: a shift from linear, mechanistic, control-based modes of operating toward living, emergent, self-organizing, life-affirming organizations. This shift is the greatest challenge facing leaders, managers and change agents today, according to Peter Senge; a shift in human consciousness, according to Ken Wilber.
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In June 2014, Harvard Business School launched HBX, its new online education initiative. At the time, the norm, increasingly, in many online courses was to create a “lean back”, individualized experience where students would primarily watch streamed video lectures that centered on experts. Stimulating lectures with star professors, perhaps, but lectures nonetheless — with a passive, individualized learner experience. We wanted to change that.
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Leaders in the technology industry are talking about trying to hire more women, yet issues like a prevalent “bro-culture” are causing women to “leave in droves…
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These best practices can help organizations strike the right balance between business-benefiting innovation and respect for customers' personal information.
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Enterprise network spend is shifting from wired to wireless solutions, primarily driven by a new WiFi generation (802.11ac) designed to boost capacity for wireless services in enterprises. But contrary to what most people believe, this evolution will require new wires to support the transition. The new WiFi generation is not easily supported with the existing wires.
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In 1998, when the Winn-Dixie grocery store in Northeast Greensboro, North Carolina closed, it created a food desert—a community without easy access to food. For years, area residents tried to get another grocery chain to come in, but none wanted to come to the predominantly African-American, low-income town. The community finally came up with a solution—one that didn't rely on an outside company to come in. They put into motion a plan to open a food cooperative.
foodofhistory's curator insight,
February 19, 2015 6:31 PM
The coop is one of the few places where we have food choices that are democratic in nature. This new co-op is a glimmer of hope in the vastly conservative (and business-focused) state of North Carolina. |
