Here in Leicester, we’ve been looking at how social networks can generate wealth - for individuals and for businesses. One of the starting places was Ron Burt’s work around structural holes, and the idea that creativity takes place in the spaces between structures and networks. There has also been some evidence that people who network [...]
Palo Alto, Silicon Valley’s heartland, will be the location launch of the first Bay Area Creative Coffee Club at the Coupa Cafe on Romona St. (wireless access included with coffee). We’ll gather on the sidewalk tables, and at 11 a.m. connect with the London Wiki Wednesday’s group via Skype for a few bons mots from [...]
I met Toby Moores last year at Office 2.0, and we discussed the creative collaboration work he was doing at DeMontfort University in Leicester. Over the last year, we’ve kept in touch, and I recruited him to participate in a panel at this year’s Office 2.0 conference on “Culture and Collaboration,” on how to unleash [...]
We’re pleased to announce that the inaugural London meeting of the CreativeCoffee Club will be on Wednesday 19th September, from 10:00 till 12:00 at Foyle’s Café in Charing Cross Road. CreativeCoffee Club aims to become “the crucible for creativity”, and is a meetup after the style of OpenCoffee Club, but focusing on creativity in business, [...]
A series of café style conversations on creativity, innovation, and transdisciplinary work are being run, every Wednesday 5.30-6.30pm, Sept 26th - Nov 28th at De Montfort University’s Institute of Creative Technologies.
The creativity conversations are about enabling cross disciplinary dialogue that draws together thinking from a wide range of perspectives. They are about:
Enhancing understanding about [...]
THE IDEA FOR CREATIVECOFFEE CLUB
The genesis of The CreativeCoffee Club started a year ago at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, when Toby Moores met David Tebbutt and I. Subsequently Toby talked us both in to joining him in writing a book about capturing commercial creativity, based on ideas he had developed within his [...]