AI for local social business
Supplier to UK government under Digital Outcomes 6, G-Cloud 14, and Neutral Vendor Framework for Innovation
History
We were founded in 2008 to use collaboration theory for social good
2008-09: Human Interactions
First published in 2005. The ground-breaking theory of collaborative work across organisational boundaries.
"Set to produce the first fundamental advances in personal productivity since the arrival of the spreadsheet" ( Information Age)
"The breakthrough that changes the rules of business" ( Peter Fingar, author of "Business Process Management: The Third Wave")
"The overarching framework for 21st century business technology" ( BP Trends)
"The next logical step in process-based technology" ( Chair of the Workflow Management Coalition)
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Subsequent books to which Keith Harrison-Broninski contributed material on Human Interaction Management include:
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"In Search of BPM Excellence" (2005, Meghan-Kiffer Press)
"Business Process Management Handbook, 1st edition" (2010, Springer)
"Social BPM" (2011, Workflow Management Coalition)
"How Knowledge Workers Get Things Done" (2012, Workflow Management Coalition)
"Empowering Knowledge Workers" (2013, Workflow Management Coalition)
"Business Process Management Handbook, 2nd edition" (2014, Springer)
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Coming soon is Keith's new book "Supercommunities", which brings together insights from recent academic research with original ideas about wellness, collaboration, and finance to explain how communities everywhere can become antifragile through social trading.
2010-14: NHS GATHER
Reinvent the NHS. Not the wheel.
A strategic NHS service for replication of successful healthcare innovations (Gartner Cool Vendor and NHS Innovation Fund award). Sponsors of the NHS GATHER service created their own showcase of Innovation Guides for specific clinical needs and/or regional communities to enable take-up of step change innovations:
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Cheaply by reducing the manual effort required to communicate innovations to stakeholders
Safely by providing a standard basis for implementation of innovations
Widely by using social media to share innovations
Quickly by making it easy for stakeholders to understand innovations
2015-2017: Town Digital Hub
Manage life issues with local help
The free web platform for volunteer supported wellness planning:
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Help others learn to self-manage their wellness
Show people how to create a holistic wellness plan from local resources and share it with their personal support network
2018-2019: Stakeitback
A disruptive mechanism for funding small businesses, including projects that benefit society
Stakeitback lets you use some of your money to support small projects you believe in, rather than investing in savings accounts, bonds, equities, or other capital markets.
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As well as doing good and being ethical this is also a sensible financial choice, since returns from small projects are often high and risks easily estimated.
2020-2021: Social Echoes
Great, replicable social trading ideas
Communities around the world are facing up to equality and sustainability issues by building local ecosystems based on social value.
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Social Echoes gathers inspirational social trading ideas that could be replicated in other communities, either manually or using our Web platforms for social trading, Town Digital Hub and Stakeitback.
We feature great social businesses with the aim of encouraging community based trading everywhere.
2021-2023: Supercommunities
How communities everywhere can become antifragile through social trading
Keith Harrison-Broninski's new book "Supercommunities" (published 2021) brings together real community stories with insights from academic research and original ideas about wellness, collaboration, and finance to explain how communities everywhere can become antifragile through social trading.
2023 onwards: Dedoctive
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