The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society’s Toughest Problems

by William D. Eggers , Paul Macmillan

The premise of this book is to identify and discuss ways that government, business and social and two bronzes and work together to solve issues that face society today.

It is a bit challenging to read the way it is formatted, but it is worth the time to read the valuable message.

The book is concise and less than 300 pages. It is divided into seven chapters:

The wavemakers, or those considered rising stars engage in delivering solutions. This includes examples of changes in corporate philanthropy on page 23, as well as people of all backgrounds who want to make changes. These include well-known investors, CEOs, and current and former government officials.

Disruptive technologies- this discuss is the growing significance of mobile technologies as a great equalizer in the problem solving potential of social media.

Business models that scale . This is an unusual chapter and discuss is for joint use that as par sharing the, innovation in health and education, franchises, platforms of discussions on line, freemiums or primary services or goods provided for free by selling the premium were complimentary product and citizens sourcing.. This chapter must be read with careful analysis as it includes some changes in the business norm of today.

The currencies. This chapter requires careful reading as it discusses the essential characteristics of impact currencies such as credits, social outcomes, citizen capital, data, and reputation. Some of these terms are becoming well-known while others require study.

Public- value exchanges. Chapter five discusses the initiation and delivery of a variety of different exchangers, which can be defined as crowd funding ,impact exchange, two sided markets, prizes and challenges and payments by result. This all those new to most of us, and as they are enabled by web technologies , these exchanges drive public value by connecting capital to all types of society’s problems with those who want to try to solve them. ( p. 167)

The ecosystems. This chapter discusses revolutionizing education through more blended learning, more customizable curriculums similar to those from Khan Academy and marketable skills through a series of other well-known sources. This chapter discusses affordable housing on page 183 through 188 and another topics including ending human trafficking on page 189 through 192

Creating your own solution revolution. The chapter title implies a series of action steps, and there are strategies, recommendations and ideas on ways to change your focus and how to determine that what we measure matters. It looks at the topic from both an individual and business point of view and tries to marry them together with government support.

This book shows some very diverse examples of initiatives of multinational companies ranging from Shell Oil to Microsoft to GTE to Whole Foods, and global markets

I found this to be a challenging read in the way it is formatted, but it worth the time to read the valuable message.

John J. Hogan CHA CMHS CHE CHO

Hospitality Educators Hogan Hospitality

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