Things we Do

We love to make projects work. No matter whether it is a social web app, a co-creation service, or an effective open innovation strategy, we can get it done. When you are a startup, an established organisation, or just someone with a seed of an idea, we will build you a custom strategy and project manage it for you. 

 The OpenBusiness Approach

OpenBusiness makes big ideas work by being small. This means low overheads for us and fair prices for you! OpenBusiness is a small and flexible team of highly experienced project managers and consultants working with start ups and big companies alike.

What that means

In the area of Social Media and Open Innovation we work with clients ranging from start-ups, to big companies and government to whom we provide the following services:

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• Community creation & development
• Strategy development
• Event management
• Insight & advice

Events and Communities

Next to consultancy and organising conferences OpenBusiness also brings people together. We organise and catalyse networks and communities around innovative events. Some  events we organise are: 

Minibar

MiniBar, is a growing community of over 2500 web entrepreneurs, developers, designers and other digital workers who are key to London’s web and tech industry. Once a month we meet face to face, network, discuss and listen to presentations, by upcoming start-ups, or thought leaders in the field. The Guardian just summarized MiniBar as an ‘overdose of brilliant ideas‘ recommending that “Gordon Brown should send down one of his minions (to learn where all the new jobs should come from”. Sponsors of the event have ranged from Paypal, to BBC, Microsoft, Mozilla/Firefox, SUN, digital agencies such as LBi and start ups such as Cloudmade. 

Silicon Hackney

Silicon Hackney was organised for people to meet locals who earn their living from the Internet in and around Hackney. Create useful contact and a lasting network with other Hackney internet enthusiasts and new media artists.

A place for people of all disciplines to get together and discuss new and emerging trends in our field. 

Upcoming:

Open Hardware Camp

In December with 40Fires and Nesta we are organising a conference on the emerging field of ‘Open Hardware’. The event will focus on collaborative strategies and challenges of making things the open source way. For more information on the conference please go here.

What we have done

Please find below some examples of projects we have done before.  

WeBank

In partnership with NESTA we developed an events and research series on peer-enabled financial innovation, which in light of the financial crisis asked “Can we bank together and replace institutions?’. We brought together finance innovators such as Zopa, Wonga and innovation executives from big banks to discuss the future of online enabled commerce. A report summarizes the findings. 

 SIX (Social Innovation Exchange)

For the Young Foundation we conceptualized, designed and built a social media platform to harness the power of a global community of social innovators.