“The corporate social and environmental responsibility movement, known more generally as corporate responsibility (CR), shows little sign of waning. Almost all large corporations now run some form of corporate responsibility program. Due to widespread acceptance that doing good for social and environmental causes can be good business, most large companies have by now commissioned some [...]
Innovation processes can be regarded as complex, dynamic, and a result of cumulative dynamic interaction and learning processes involving many actors. In this setting, private small- and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) can be considered a key factor – as generators of new ideas, as entrepreneurs carrying out new ventures, and as partners for other local actors.
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Last year we featured the 10 business models that rocked 2010. Now we studied 7 business models that got shot in 2011! Discover the learnings from the business models of Southwest, Airbnb, Bitcoins, Netflix, Dexia, HiGear, Nokia, RIM, and Swoopo.
Over the years, open innovation has been transforming the way global organizations develop new products the Daily Times of Nigeria reports. Recently, this concept has been applied to other aspects of business. Business leaders gather intelligence from a broader community of knowledge to develop faster and better solutions to a variety of strategic, operational, and [...]
Authored by: Andrew Eder
In 2010, TechnoServe assisted 2,770 businesses across more than 30 developing countries. These businesses employed 40,300 people and bought products from 270,800 small-scale producers. Behind each of these numbers is a story of change: a cooperative connecting to export markets, an entrepreneur whose idea becomes a business, a farmer who [...]
