strategy

Crowd Sourcing Platforms!

Crowd sourcing is an essential part of Enterprise 3.0! – companies making use of the power of – Web 3.0!.

Irrespective of the size, structure and purpose of the organization, social (open) innovation will become the most important strategy for business sustainability.

Social innovation will help shifting the focus of even routine operational parts of organizations from cost, quality & time pressures to growth, profitability and business sustainability goals!

Here is a list of Crowd Sourcing Platforms and solutions:

http://twtpick.in/widget/list_embed/9W

Please feel free to use, add, modify…

Tools and Services for a frugal organization

Frugal Organizations are characterized by value focused approach to everything. Invariably, most of the startups bootstrapping themselves adopt a frugal approach. However, the approach is relevant for any organization.

One of the important aspect of this approach is to find, keep and use all tools & services that help in this pursuit. It is that much better if this is contributed by a lot of smart people around the world! and actively feedback on the usefulness/effectiveness!

twtpick.in is a great platform for creating lists of useful items socially! Here is one such list at the site focused on tools & services for a lean startup.

 

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http://twtpick.in/list/9E?show=10#

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Worth a try!

Self-reform

Soul searching is an inevitable exercise to find where to go when you are comfortable – not when life is too difficult. In situations where everything seems to be going too fine – health, wealth, family, friends, job, rewards, recognition…. some of us get into this mood of being at cross-roads!

Many successful business people start thinking about how they should help others, work for a great social cause, start a social service/NGO, a free school, hospital, etc…. Many of them will dedicate themselves to this as well. But these good intentions mostly last only their own life times while businesses they built might last beyond them!

Wise men seem to have found a good means to balance this with continuous quest triggered by self drive to reform themselves than when they are at cross-roads! Easier said than done for the rest of us!

At work, we call this quest – continuous improvement, business sustainability, transformation! Drivers might be different – competition, customers, changing environment… etc.! – mostly external, reactive – unless bound by a strong & large enough vision!

For the rest of us, simple mantras like these might be of help:

“Self-reform automatically brings about social reformation! Confine yourself to self-reformation. Social reform will take care of itself!” ~ Swami Vivekananda

“Why don’t you help your own lotus flower to boom? The bees will come of themselves!” ~ Sri Ramakrishna

What are we waiting for…..?

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