"redesignMe helps organisations with making user needs tangible by facilitating online co-creation. For example by setting up communities of tea-lovers who brainstorm about tomorrow's innovations in tea."

Still needs to be proved but they are trying...

http://www.lewhif.com/

"To learn how cutting-edge firms hire, facilitate communication between, and retain employees, Director Berry recently met with Facebook, Google and design firm Ideo on a recent trip to California, also touring each facility to see how they’re laid out in the hope of replicating some of that magic in a federal setting."

Wired Magazine, August 31, 2009.

Found here: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/08/ideas_are_just_a_multiplier_of.html

It’s so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas.

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

Explanation:

AWFUL IDEA = -1
WEAK IDEA = 1
SO-SO IDEA = 5
GOOD IDEA = 10
GREAT IDEA = 15
BRILLIANT IDEA = 20

NO EXECUTION = $1
WEAK EXECUTION = $1000
SO-SO- EXECUTION = $10,000
GOOD EXECUTION = $100,000
GREAT EXECUTION = $1,000,000
BRILLIANT EXECUTION = $10,000,000

To make a business, you need to multiply the two.

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20.
The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

That’s why I don’t want to hear people’s ideas.
I’m not interested until I see their execution.

VisionSpring prototyping eye camps for children in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Open-Source Innovation: IDEO's Human-Centered Design Toolkit

As designers working to improve the quality of life in other countries, the firm IDEO has spent more than 10 years creating a methodology focused on designing for the user. And now, IDEO wants to give all of that methodology away. A series of PDFs that are free to download, theHuman-Centered Design Toolkithopes to empower organizations and design firms by giving them their field-tested tools for social impact in a way that focuses more on sharing information than authorship.

Source:http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/alissa-walker/designerati/human-centered-design-toolkit-shares-information

http://patterns.ideo.com/

IDEO 2009

"We partnered with International Development Enterprises (IDE), Heifer International, ICRW, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a toolkit for applying Human-Centered Design to inspire new solutions to difficult challenges within communities of need.

Human-Centered Design is a process used for decades to create new solutions for companies and organizations. Human-Centered Design can help you enhance the lives of people. This process has been specially-adapted for organizations like yours that work with people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Human-Centered Design (HCD) will help you hear people's needs in new ways, create innovative solutions to meet these needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind".

More: http://www.ideo.com/work/item/human-centered-design-toolkit/