OPEN INNOVATION: Nike + Creative Commons, Best Buy

OPEN INNOVATION: Nike + Creative Commons, Best Buy

In its commitment to protecting the environment, the company is sharing its knowledge so other businesses can do the same. Nike has partnered with Creative Commons and Best Buy to support a shared vision of "creating a platform that promotes the creation and adoption of technologies that have the potential to solve important global or cheap coach handbags industry-wide sustainability challenges." Together they have formed the GreenXchange. The project aims to develop strategies for using patents and know-how to facilitate and promote open innovation. In late October, 2009, Nike also entered a partnership with social innovation network PopTech as the first participant in the PopTech Labs to "foster open collaboration on key innovation challenges." Each of the PopTech Labs will bring together a select group of leading scientific researchers, engineers, designers, corporate leaders, policymakers and other key stakeholders around a single topic of research in areas of vital importance to business, society, and the planet.

Best Buys mantra is "the company as wiki." The company is tapping into its 130,000 employees to market its brand cheap gucci handbags rather than just relying on the marketing staff to do so. It is a great example of how a major company has redefined its attitude towards control and information.

NOWISM: Zara, TCHO, Zappos

Customers always want it faster, that's not news. But the implications of the real-time web are more profound and affect the way organizations operate and adapt their business models to the new and ever-changing demands of immediacy. Zara, the Spanish clothing chain, uses customer feedback to develop new clothes, in near real-time. TCHO, the San Francisco-based chocolatier, relies on continuous flavor development and customer feedback to drive constantly evolving versions of its dark chocolate, with variations emerging as often as every 36 hours. Zappos, the online shoe retailer, successfully combines real-time customer service on Twitter with near-real-time product delivery.

GLOCALISM: FC Barcelona

FC Barcelona ("Barca") was one of the first soccer clubs to be founded in Spain, and it became a haven for Catalan sentiment when Catalan self-government and culture were proscribed during Franco's dictatorship. The club emerged as the playful manifesto of Catalonia's spiritual independence, and since then, nowhere has soccer been more fundamental to the sense of identity than in Barcelona. It is ironic that a club rooted deeply in Catalan nationalism has such an international following. But Barca's appeal is so global precisely because its roots are so local. Barca represents the Catalan people while at the same time creating a sense of belonging to "beauty and excellence." The meaning of Barca transcends the boundaries of sports and nations, and embodies the universal values of sportsmanship and integrity. Barca is fully owned by its members, unlike most other big soccer clubs which are either in the hands of large corporations or American (Manchester United) and Russian (FC Chelsea) billionaires and the members possess significant voting power. Based on its spirit of independence, the club has always taken on broader social issues and played a pivotal role in promoting diversity, tolerance, and peace worldwide. Barca's partnership with UNICEF is a statement of the club's continuing efforts to be at the forefront of solidarity projects with a global reach. Under the agreement, which bears the slogan "Barcelona, more than a club, a new global hope for vulnerable children," Barca contributes to the financing of UNICEF humanitarian projects and endorses UNICEF on its shirts it is the only major European cheap louis vuitton handbags team not to wear an advertisement.

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