Volans is delighted to have just launched our latest Newsletter, where we share a round-up of our latest activities as we ‘help the future take flight’. Read more here. We would…
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October through to November this year will be an exciting time for the Volans team. Starting with the launch of our latest report, The Future Quotient, on 12 October (more…
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When we set up Volans early in 2008, we adopted the tagline: ‘The Business of Social Innovation,’ a phrase which soon went into the language. At the same time, we…
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We are racing towards completion of our latest report, The Future Quotient: 50 Stars in Seriously Long-Term Innovation. This has been developed in partnership with JWT – with backing from…
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Social OPEX is a leadership development programme, co-developed by Allianz and Volans, that seeks to transfer business skills to high-impact social enterprises, helping them to overcome process and operational challenges,…
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At the beginning of the year Volans hosted a series of ‘One Planet London’ brainstorming sessions with friends and partners, looking at how we could help to develop London as…
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John Elkington has continued to work on his new book, The Zeronauts. Much progress was made earlier in the year during the first stage of his fellowship at the Bellagio…
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Patients Know Best is a young, but steadily growing social enterprise based in Cambridge, UK that is bringing innovation to the UK’s healthcare system by empowering patients to own and…
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Every month, John Elkington continues to contribute columns for publications and websites in Brazil, China, Denmark, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. In addition, he contributes a weekly…
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During recent months, we have been pleased to welcome several further additions to the Volans team supporting our work in Client Services and the Innovation Lab. They are: Jacqueline Lim,…
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A guest article by Tom Rippin, Founder of On Purpose John Elkington and Charmian Love formed the distinguished panel for the On Purpose annual event in May this year. As…
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The private sector can drive social innovation, and Hewlett Packard continues to prove it. As Gabi Zedlmayer, VP of the Office of Global Social Innovation, recently writes for Forbes, “global…
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Charmian Love will be speaking next week at the International Symposium on Designing Ecosystems for Social Innovation in Tokyo, Japan (via live feed from London). The symposium is co-organised by…
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