Upcoming events in October and November
Jacqueline Lim
September 15, 2011
October through to November this year will be an exciting time for the Volans team. Starting with the launch of our latest report, The... More...
What’s in a name, or rather a tagline?
John Elkington
September 14, 2011
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. ... More...
The Future Quotient and Seriously Long-Term Innovation
Jacqueline Lim
September 8, 2011
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... More...
The London Project
Sam Lakha
September 7, 2011
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... More...
Additions to the Volans team in London
Sam Lakha
September 6, 2011
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... More...
Examining the future of social enterprise
Jacqueline Lim
September 5, 2011
A guest article by Tom Rippin, Founder of On Purpose John Elkington and Charmian Love formed the distinguished panel for the On... More...
Designing ecosystems for social innovation
Jacqueline Lim
September 1, 2011
Charmian Love will be speaking next week at the International Symposium on Designing Ecosystems for Social Innovation in Tokyo, Japan (via live feed... More...
Stewardship and family businesses
Sam Lakha
June 10, 2011
There has been a shift in the stewardship agenda among businesses from product development and supply chain management in the 1970s, to a broader... More...
Time to forget old sustainability reporting
Sam Lakha
May 20, 2011
John Elkington is cheered by the prospect of a new generation that seems ready to embrace integrated reporting. Read his full article for Guardian Sustainable... More...
Japanese delegates visit the UK
Jacqueline Lim
May 6, 2011
A group of 9 delegates from government, business and the social enterprise sector in Japan visited the UK earlier in March this year to participate... More...
