The innovations mandate requires the American Cancer Society Futuring and Innovation Center to look into a lot of areas and social trends that are just emerging but are likely to have a significant future impact on our business. By definition many of the things we look at are far from mainstream, trends tend to originate on the fringe. The diverse ...

Trends and new ideas are a bit hard to keep up with particularly as the speed of change increases but a new web site can help. Springwise is worth a look.

Over the last few weeks a number of managers at various levels of ACS were involved in a review of Lindens for Life a virtual fundraiser, which took place in 2nd Life an electronic game, for the benefit of a Relay for Life team. The Futuring and Innovation center was an observer of the activity in question from its inception ...

From a Voluntary Health Association perspective Social Software is an umbrella term for a series of business solutions that are focused on inter connecting and facilitating the organization of people. Much of what is being developed is not in it self-new. It is a new way of looking at and doing things. In fact many of the application are variants ...