‘The 10 Principles of Open Business’ looks at the epoch-making shift happening around us and examines why "openness" is a key factor for the future of our organisations.
According to IBM’s CEO survey in 2012, companies that outperform their sector are 30 per cent more likely to identify ‘openness’ as a key factor in their success, and companies are 50 per cent more likely to outperform their rivals and grow sustainable profit following this approach.
The book includes case studies and interviews from leading proponents, with a preface by Matt Atkinson, the chief marketing officer of Tesco; interviews with Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian; former UK defence minister Tom Watson, and presidents, vice-presidents and chief executives of international blue-chip companies and ground-breaking start-ups.
‘The 10 Principles of Open Business’ is a serious, challenging, wide-ranging and practical guide to organisational design for the twenty-first century. Some of the principles considered are:
Open capital – using crowd-funding platforms or principles to raise capital through micro-investments
Networked organisation – functioning as a platform connecting internal networks to the external for a common purpose
Shareability – packaging knowledge for easy and open internal and external sharing
Connectedness – Connecting all employees to one another and externally through open social media
Open innovation – Innovating with partners, sharing risk and reward in the development of products, services and marketing
Open data –Making your data freely available to those outside your organisation
Transparency – Openly sharing decisions and the criteria on which they are based
Member/partner-led – Structuring your organisation around employees, customers and partners for their mutual social, economic and cultural benefit
The 10 Principles of Open Business
Building Success in Today’s Open Economy
Published 8 January 2014. Hardback; £19.99
David Cushman is strategy partner at The Social Partners