ABOUT
THE OPEN BUSINESS GUIDE
(working title)
The Open Business Guide is a hand book for actors within the creative industry aiming to incorporate elements of openness in their business strategy.
The hand book will contain:
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EMERGING PARADIGM OF OPENNESS
BUSINESS ELEMENTS/MODELS
- an overview and categorization of the underlying elements in various business strategies.
CURRENT SUCCESS STORIES
- current strong & successful cases from the creative industry where the element of openness is key in the business strategy
- key elements in the the development process from starting up to be coming a successful open business
- point out the carrying open business elements the various cases, and visually tag them to strengthen the understanding.
Background
The Open Business Guide is the graduation project of Elisabeth Nesheim as part of her Kaospilot education. The Kaospilots is a business school, located in Denmark, with focus on sustainability and social innovation training their students within the area of project and process leadership.
A strong collaborative partner in the project is Markus Beckedahl from Netzpolitik.org
More specifically, the aim of the project is to find the arguments for and sharing strategies of how start-ups and existing businesses can benefit from incorporating elements of openness in their businesses (i.e elements of sharing and community participation in areas of idea development, production, product modification and distribution).
We want to create a product that provides our target group with immediate understanding and overview of concrete possibilities in this area, as the multitude of information around often adds complexity, instead of clarity.
More concrete we see this knowledge being presented in a hand-book to be distributed through the engaged community of Netzpolitik, Creative Commons and this site.
A clear focus is that of promoting free sharing of digital copies of works governed under an open copyright/copyleft license, and look into the many possibilities connected to the attention gathered from this action of giving.
All of the material related to this project is licensed under Creative Commons (BY/SA):
