Does getting the job done closer to home align with collaborative best practice? That’s the question I’m asking myself after reading The 100 Mile Diet – A Year of Local Eating by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon. Published in 2007, this book became a bestseller, and inspiration for many around the world. These folks are […]
The 100 Mile Diet: A story of collaboration?
Filed Under: In my neighbourhood · Tagged: collaboration, community, food security, social innovation, systems thinking
Constellation Collaboration: an inspired model for multi-organizational collaboration
The Constellation Collaboration Model offers an inspiring, and sensible, framework for organizations to come together, create partnership, and realize mutual objectives. It is the vision of Tonya Surman and Mark Surman, and builds on their work with the Centre for Social Innovation, “a social enterprise with a mission to catalyze social innovation”, based in Toronto, […]
Filed Under: Frameworks for collaboration · Tagged: collaboration, innovation, social innovation, systems thinking
7 Ways that Social Business is a model of inclusion
Muhammad Yunus is microfinance pioneer, founder of Grameen Bank, and a leader in the movement for social business. His work in creating businesses that do good to people and solve social problems earned him the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Inclusion is a key component of his approach to business. There has been much written in the […]
Filed Under: Frameworks for collaboration · Tagged: books, collaboration, innovation, social innovation
