Most Popular in the Last...

Home

experimentation

See the following -

FrontlineSMS Case Study Featured In New Rockefeller Foundation Report: Learning From Experimentation

Laura Walker Hudson | FrontlineSMS | November 1, 2012

The Rockefeller Foundation recently launched a new website, Capacity to Innovate.org, which examines lessons from a number of organizations including Ushahidi and Internews, and encapsulates them in three short reports which are well worth a read. FrontlineSMS is featured in the ‘Learning From Experimentation’ report, available from the website. Read More »

Google Logic: Why Google Does The Things It Does

Michael Mace | Mobile Opportunity | July 1, 2013

“What does Google want?” A favorite pastime among people who watch the tech industry is trying to figure out why Google does things. [...]  But the topic also comes up regularly in conversations with my Silicon Valley friends. Read More »

How the Shutdown Is Devastating Biomedical Scientists And Killing Their Research

Brandon Keim | Wired | October 3, 2013

The federal shutdown’s effects on science and medicine are many. There’s halted food safety inspections, kids with cancer who won’t be able to join clinical drug trials, and suspension of disease outbreak monitoring. Conservation studies have been thrown into disarray and at least one NASA Mars mission is at risk of being delayed for years. Read More »

Your Team's Differentiator Isn't Its Tech

By Mike Walker | July 21, 2017

In 2016, I launched Open Innovation Labs, a place where people seeking to leverage the principles of openness can work with a seasoned team to build innovative software that solves their most pressing business problems. It has been an exciting and daunting undertaking. Today, Open Innovation Labs imparts knowledge and best practices that emerge from the world's most successful open source projects, and we provide a residency-style experience that immerses teams in those practices. We generally partner with companies looking to do two things: Either they want to move quickly and be disruptive, or they see disruption as an existential threat and seek to adapt their behaviors to facilitate a more rapid pace of change...

Read More »