Innovators Alliance

MARCH 17, 2022

The business paradigm is shifting with an increased focus on ‘impact’ entrepreneurship. Impact entrepreneurs consciously create positive change in the world. Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, released to open sourcing all Tesla’s patents for creating electric vehicles to support efforts to fight climate change. Have you noticed?

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eZassi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Invest in Intrapreneurs – Innovation Management Supports Your Organization’s Greatest Change Makers Intrapreneurs are those important team members with the optimism, intellect, initiative, and discipline to champion bright ideas and drive new project pipelines, establishing innovative change across the business.

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KindlingApp

APRIL 3, 2016

While most presidents leave a legacy they claim as theirs alone, Obama’s legacy of innovation and change in government is a call to action to the American people and depends upon citizens stepping forward and helping out. Institutions mired in bureaucracy and legal restriction are typically the slowest to see innovative change.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business. Changing Your Company from the Inside Out.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

A hundred years ago, people didn't talk about changing the world — not in the way we speak of it today. And in the last decade or so, the genre has become even more refined: social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, L3C low-profit corporations, B corporations, the charitable endurance event industry, and more.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton If you’re like most people, you’ve faced disappointment. Maybe the love of your life didn’t return your affection, you didn’t get into your dream college, or you were passed over for promotion. And sometimes, that hurt lingers for a long time. Until one day, something happens, and you […]

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

(including one that makes Radical Innovation easy) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You are a rolling stone, and that means you gather no moss!

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton What if a tool had the power to delight your customers, cut your costs, increase your bottom line, and maybe double your stock price? You’d use it, right? That’s precisely the power and impact of Service Design and service blueprints. Yet very few people, especially in the US, know, understand, […]

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Being a leader isn’t easy. You must BE accountable, compassionate, confident, curious, empathetic, focused, service-driven, and many other things.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 18, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You are a leader. The person in charge. That means you know the answer to every question, make the right decision when faced with every choice, and act confidently when others are uncertain. Insert uproarious laughter here). Of course not. But you act like you do because […]

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

You can find the answer to the timing question nestled among the facts that David Bornstein lays out in the preface to his book, How to Change the World. That year, two global headlines raised the profile of social enterprise: Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace prize. And is this kind of rapid growth good news?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

How easy is it to change a flawed economic or governance system, such as our current 1.5-planets-and-counting Change must now come from business itself. The second is change-as-usual , where earnest but unspectacular efforts are made. In short, change would happen, but at a dangerously slow pace. Breakthrough Science.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Social Media, Social Business, Social Innovation, Social Era — are they all the same, or are they quite different? Social Business (1.0). Also referred to as Social Innovation or Social Entrepreneurship.). CrowdSourcing / Open Innovation. Social Business (2.0).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Cloud computing, social media, new professional paradigms such as social entrepreneurship, below-the-line marketing and a host of novel realities have transformed the global context for Africans with their eyes set on continental and beyond-continental scale. This is genuinely world-changing in its potential.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Consider Ashoka , which provides start-up funding and support for social innovators worldwide. Founder Bill Drayton led the way in fostering collaborative entrepreneurship for collective social change. Building community in the for-profit world, which lacks a grand social mission, might seem daunting.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

To some, stories like del Ser's inspire great hope based on the idea that businesspeople who enter the social sector with years of professional seasoning will bring new ideas and unique skills for addressing social problems. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and the Bridgespan Group. To Change the World, Fear Means Go.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Many companies have a huge gap between their culture and strategy — a problem that only gets bigger in larger companies, especially when they are in transition. Management at all of these companies have a common reflex: Scream louder about goals and policies as the gap between culture and strategy widens. Continue reading →

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

If you care about social innovation and haven't already heard about social impact bonds, let us be the ones to tell you about them. Using those investors' funds, a real-world test of the concept is done (not a trivial undertaking for a social innovation). If not, the investors are simply out the cash.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Of course, it's variety and the daring to be different that produces game-changing innovation. So how do we make every management process a catalyst, rather than a wet blanket, for innovation? And, importantly, how do we make innovation a true core competence? by Ross Baird, Village Capital.

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eZassi

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

What is Social Innovation? Social Innovation refers to the creation of new solutions—ideas, services, or models—that meet pressing social needs and improve individuals' and communities' quality of life. Genuine Social Innovation fosters a culture of sustainability vital for company survival and growth.

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