Open Innovation and Social Media- Innovate10

After a very long walk, following little orange clouds, to listen to Brian McCaul, Leeds University talks about using social media to speed up and improve knowledge transfer.

March 2008- banks started folding and seed funding took a rapid downward trend. Aim market virtually closed for two years. Leeds facing a huge squeeze, pain also from public purse funding.
Faced with tight budgets, the Leeds team had to look at engaging with Social Media.

Leeds began to build virtual organisation to build IP, paid for by consultancy and semi-voluntary resource.. this is open innovation in action. Now social media makes it possible to co-ordinate group activities and surpress the costs.

Brian suggests the new model says you don't have to emply all the smart people all the time, so using social media you can find and engage with them, almost on a pay-as-you go agreements.

The new culture is open, always connected and communicating. This openess accelerates innovation.

A good presentation showing how Leeds University is truly innovating and bringing new innovation to business.
Social media can give a new product market pull...using a comminity of early adopters to use, test and deploy. ( LiveEnsure-www.liveensure.com) Feed out ideas, poll and listen. Techology is great but design and delivery of IP is essential for success.

Academics being encouraged to blog and share through the innovation and development process of a new product/service.
@brianamac
We are about to design a happy app! Involving lots of coloured paper and pens!

(Warm room, poor sound but good content)

Elysee Launch.. Fantastically Social.

Thursday Night Invitation…Louise – Wonderful!

The Restaurant is called Elysee Restaurant (Greek Food).
The address is:
13 Percy St,Camden Town, UK W1T 2
020 7636 4804

Closest Tube is Goodge Street or Tottenham Court Road.

My glamourous companion Amanda Y who knew the old place well joins me for our post work adventure, she is greek, speaks greek and oozes chanel laced charm.
The ambience and class hits us from the cab, the place is classy immaculate from reception to restaurant. The refurbished upstairs has a feel of the Ivy or Wentworth, tasteful in every way duck egg blue, discreet paint effects, wall adorned with quirky modern art including a chandelier of smashed plates. The outside roof garden space upstairs is a haven for smokers, heaters and candles, so husband if you are reading we will be revisiting.

Downstairs an amazing Jazz band plays I am told they have live jazz every night until 10pm. They are going to attract the new jazz factor youngsters like, Kiki Bagger, Katie Dalton and Felicity Robertson who like the refurb bring a new era of Jazz to Percy Street. http://youtu.be/IaJm_05tKP8

Well known photographer Petros Pentayiotis is snapping a model who is draping herself over the cream leather chaise, I apply my super gloss in preparation for a photo and Archbishop Grigorious arrives to bless the venture everyone is kissing his hand. Oh my god I almost inhaled my dior lipgloss not wanting to leave a pout print on his sacred paw.

The charming Kyriacos Pattihis tells us of royal liaisons, celebrity stag nights, the tycoons and princes who have frequented Elysee over the years. You can still smash plates , this was fabulous after work therapy, smash, crash, bang better than any yoga class.
I highly recommend a visit, the charm is effusive. They have an amazing offer that involves the a rather generous amount of free prosceco with every main course.

http://www.elyseerestaurant.com/