Firm Follows Form

Organisation Design blog by Nathan Waterhouse

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February 19, 2011

Make an impact on Bone Marrow Donation

OpenIDEO’s latest challenge is a partnership with Stanford’s Haas Center and an inspiring group of students running an initiative called 100kCheeks. Bone Marrow Donation is a complex problem: although there are national Bone Marrow Registres such as the BetheMatch US site, it’s still hard for many people to find a match who desperately require a transplant in - Read More -

January 29, 2011

Reflections on the i20

A couple of weeks ago I had the honour and the privilege of attending and speaking at an event hosted by The White House and The Department of State. The event was organised by John Kao and his Institute of Large Scale Innovation and attendees included heads of innovation for 28 different countries. The purpose - Read More -

November 20, 2010

Zappos: review of Tony Hsieh’s talk

‘Delivering Happiness’ is the title of Tony’s book, and the title of the talk that I saw recently live, hosted by the Entrepreneurs Association in San Francisco. I was pretty excited about hearing Tony talk, but I have to admit in retrospect it was slightly disappointing. To summarise, the talk had some great examples of how - Read More -