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News from Volans (September 2011)

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… More…

Upcoming events in October and November

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… More…

What’s in a name, or rather a tagline?

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… More…

The Future Quotient and Seriously Long-Term Innovation

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… More…

Social OPEX expands

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,… More…

The London Project

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… More…

Zero lessons from Total Quality Management

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… More…

Interview with founder of Patients Know Best

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… More…

Guardian Sustainable Business

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… More…

Additions to the Volans team in London

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,… More…

Examining the future of social enterprise

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… More…

Driving social innovation in the classroom

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… More…

Designing ecosystems for social innovation

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… More…

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