Archive of the category: "Innovation"
Weekly inspiration #25: Brainstorming
source: Brainstore.com
Last Thursday, I was invited to Paris to participate to a workshop organized by our friends from Brainstore. Over the last 20 years, they have developed and standardized a creative process, which I was very impressed to see in action. Brainstore has created a real idea machine (see schema above), a system allowing to [...]
London goes Wired
Following an old tradition, we recently organized another dinner at Obika, conjointly with our London ambassador Paolo Rigutto. We were excited about welcoming travelling Sandboxers from allover the world, from Delhi to NYC. Gustav Borgefolk, who recently passed the selection process, joined us from Stockholm with great energy, and we’re convinced that he’ll make the [...]
Weekly Inspiration #21: Financial Innovations from the Crowd
In 2009, over-leveraged creativity in global financial markets proved disastrous. At the same time, financial innovations on the micro level have been quite successful: think mobile banking and crowdfunding. Mobile phone penetrations and manifestation of the social web have been central to micro financial innovations. At Sandbox, we’re fascinated by the collective [...]
Weekly inspiration #20: What was and what will be
So the year 2009 is over and with it the first decade of the new millennium. A perfect moment to look back and ahead to assess what was and what will be. We already did this for Sandbox with our Year in Review and Roadmap for 2010 blog posts.
But of course, it’s not just about [...]
Future of Retail
Sandbox member and Holstee co-founder Michael Radparvar recently published this blogpost on the “Future of Retail” on the incubaker blog.
Increasingly I find people are going into stores with no intention of actually buying anything. They are going to stores to touch, try and ask questions about a product in person then jot down the description [...]
Ideas & thoughts from Palomar5 in Berlin
I just arrived back from a mind-blowing week in Berlin at Palomar 5. I wanted to thank everyone at P5 for the amazing days and write down a few thoughts, learnings and ideas from the last 5 days in Berlin. There is much more that would deserve to be told, like stories about mexican-human-mini-golf courses at 4 am, midnight Omelette cooking with Saga or Eddie’s theory of focus vs. broadness on a napkin. Below some of the stuff that inspired me most and ideas that came out of it.
Meet a Sandbox Member: Brian W. Jones
Sandbox member Brian W. Jones is currently living in Greensboro, Alabama where he helped start PieLab, a welcoming community space focused on civic engagement, economic revitalization, and job training. He describes himself as a designer, “trying to redefine what that means and the role I play in business”.
What is your latest project?
I’m working on a few things right now, but a [...]
PALOMAR5 FROM THE INSIDE - WEEK #4
This blog post is part 2 of the Sandbox Network ‘Palomar 5′ series: a six week innovation camp in Berlin from 9 October - 24 November 2009. To follow the progress of the conference, you can view the official Palomar 5 blog. Alternatively, if you are on twitter, follow hashtag #p5 for real-time updates. You [...]
Innovators Gather in Washington DC
Sandbox dinners are a place where emerging ideas and the innovators behind them meet. Last Friday, Sandboxers and potential members came together in Kramers Books and Afterwords, a well-known Washington venue. Nested in the restaurants upstairs balcony, the Sandbox group of technologists, social media experts, entrepreneurs, and other passionate innovators shared their stories.
Among [...]
Sandboxing in London and setting a global agenda
Thanks to our ambassador Paolo Rigutto, the last weeks have been filled with various Sandbox dinners in London which sparked several ideas on (social) innovation and the agenda-setting potential of Sandbox on a global scale.
On a dinner focusing around entrepreneurship, potential Sandboxer Mai-Li Hammargren told us about her exciting new time-tracking application, which has won [...]
