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tip A good article that talks about using technology to find solutions to real problems that could change the world to the better. Instead of building more applications that make money. Key thought by Umair Haque is that "the 21st century capitalism needs a revolution"...
 
 

Posted by razano on 24.06.2008
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Posted by razano on 25.06.2008
 

I know more and more wealthy entrepreneurs are considering using their wealth and expertise in Philanthropy projects that bring back to the community that made them wealthy in the first place.

Posted by sheikh on 25.06.2008
 

FYI:

“The Average business executive has spent 10,000 hours in being
educated … but only spent 10 hours being trained in creativity!”


Source: Ideas.Arabia Conference Dubai, 2007

Posted by sheikh on 25.06.2008
 

A good article indeed.

 

Changing the world requires a vision, either totally new, or that disrupts the status qou, i.e, restures the current consitituents.

I remeber from a seminar on Business innovation that businesses usually go like this:

commodities --> Product --> Service --> Experience --> Transformation

There is bank in Bangladesh (Grameen) that is not operating according to usual banking practices, and still profitable. That bank deservers to be put in the Transformation category, as it helped lots of people to change their lives. So, it seems that the real issue is to convince those who have money to start changing their priorities, and not to look for profits only. Unfortunately this is in direct conflict with what capitalism is, at least in these days, where every one is trying to reap the rewards as fast as possible.