About This Blog
The Think: Social Innovation blog shares inspiring ideas, useful resources and proposes for conversation thoughts surrounding social innovation and the design and management of social profit organizations. These contributions aim to enrich the conversation around solutions to social problems and the pursuit of social opportunities.
In An Expansion on the Concept of the Social Innovation Imperative, I lay out a framework for this blog’s perspective on social innovation, including what it means and why we need it. In summary, social innovation is the process of (or product of) generating new and better solutions, the value of which is largely “social” in nature, versus economic in nature. We need it because our continued progress as a society depends on it—and because we need improvement in so many areas already. Many posts on this blog revolve around the inspiring ideas I encounter, which I hope can help lead to social innovation by sparking a connection between different ideas in the disparate contexts in which readers work.
Other posts relate to the design and management of organizations, generally within the social profit context. After all, organizations are often the vehicles of our efforts for social progress, and their effectiveness is therefore central to addressing the challenge.
In each post, I include links, where possible, to other resources discussing the idea being highlighted. My posts represent brief summaries and commentary and I encourage readers to review these resources themselves. Furthermore, because this blog represents a collection of the ideas I encounter as I explore the fields of social innovation and organization design and management, it is an evolving body of thought.
Please leave comments or respond in a blog post of your own; indeed, the richer the conversation, the healthier the fruit it will bear.
