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The Origo Institute produces and disseminates knowledge and tools for building the best businesses ever. The Institute conducts research, develops networks and interactive maps to foster partnership development and holds events that advance this mission.
What is "The Best Business Ever?"
Put simply the best businesses ever, whether for profit or non profit, are built around great business opportunities and are designed to integrate both social and environmental value from the outset. The trick is not to think about trade offs between profits and social benefits, but to seek ways of designing your business that generate both.
Field Building Research
The Origo Institute is a repository of business models that exemplify excellence in business design. The Origo Institute works with partner organizations to understand, design, and disseminate the systems that will make these business models scaleable.
Market Maps for Partnership Development
Origo Market Maps are visual interactive tools that enable users to view and understand large amounts of data easily. With Origo Market Maps, you can research new markets, review development activities, uncover new opportunities, and connect with potential project partners.
Results Oriented Events
For several years Origo has been developing events that promote excellence in business design. We also maintain a community updated calendar that tracks major events in our field around the world.
Origo Cross-Sector News
Origo Cross-Sector News is a clipping service that provides a birds-eye view of trends spanning multinational corporations, governments, non-profit's, foundations, investors and social entrepreneurs, and aims to encourage dialogue between these groups.
Our newsletter, origo news, houses an indexed and searchable archive of the articles featured in the email newsletter, which now amounts to several thousand. Both the newsletter and web site are provided free of charge to an international audience of business, non-profit and government leaders.
“It’s the only newsletter on cross-sector issues worth reading.”
--Jed Emerson
Senior Fellow, Generation Investment Management
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External Resources
Key sources of knowledge on excellence in business design.
Origo News
Our industry news site, Origo Cross-Sector News follows important trends in the areas where business and social innovation intersect.
WBSCD.org
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development maintains one of the most extensive resources on the web for information on businesses role in sustainable development. In addition to the main web site their video library provides an excellent and informative overview of business as a solution to social challenges.
WorldChanging.com
Driven by a vision of progressive collaboration and reform, WorldChanging explores the democratizing potential of modern technology with sharp insight and unwavering idealism.
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Timbuktu Chronicles
A view of Africa and Africans with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, practical remedies and other self sustaining activities.
NextBillion.net
This blog brings together industry leaders to identify and discuss sustainable business models that address the needs of the world's poorest citizens. Maintained by the World Resources Institute, this is a valuable resource on business at the base of the economic pyramid.
BusinessInDevelopment.nl
The Dutch government is one of the worlds most active and innovative in promoting business as a tool for poverty elimination. Business in Development (BiD) is a Dutch initiative to catalyze this type of activity, and the web site is rich with fresh information.
Clean Edge
Clean Edge, The Clean-Tech Market Authority, is a research and strategy firm that helps companies, investors, governments, and nonprofits understand and profit from emerging clean-energy markets.
Rapid Response
This World Bank site offers best practice public policy advice for private sector led growth in developing countries. Find expert analysis, powerful databases, quick solutions, and comprehensive "how-to" guides.
Rocky Mountain Institute
Rocky Mountain Institute is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining. RMI inspires business, civil society, and government to design integrative solutions that create true wealth.
infoDev.org
This site focuses on uses of information and communication technologies (ICT) as tools of poverty reduction and broad-based, sustainable development.
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