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Towards Business Design Principles for Strongly Sustainable Organizations

by Antony Upward on Tue, 2013/03/05 - 8:36pm

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This is my third post to the blog of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (SSBMG), an applied research group within OCAD U’s Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Strongly Sustainable Business Models: A Personal Perspective on a New Field of Practice and Research

First in a series for the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group (SSBMG), this post by Antony Upward discusses the origin and meaning of the groups's name.

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Research highlights

Synthesis Maps | Gigamaps
Large-scale information maps relevant to complex problem areas selected by Systemic Design students in OCAD University's SFI MDes program
Systemic Design Association
Advancing systemic design: the integrative practice & theory of visualizing, designing & governing diverse socio-technical systems
Economic Futures for Ontario 2032
An Ontarian-centred foresight project investigating divergent, future economic prospects through our needs & wants, behaviours, cultures & expectations, now through 2032.
Design Emergence Media Organization (DEMO)
DEMO Publishing presents new genres and formats of interdisciplinary design and media theory and practice
Systemic Design and Its Discontents: Designing with Emergence and Accountability
This paper from RSD7 explains the power of systemic design to bring positive change & unintended consequences. We argue for alloying systemic design with ethics, social justice & data literacy. Read the paper.
What is "precompetitive innovation"?
Pre-competitive purposes / innovation / research / collaboration refers to early stage, multi-sector, “market development” efforts that aim to open up space and capacity for cooperation & competition by developing knowledge, expectations, standards.

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