Friend of the Stanford d.school Saul Kaplan shares his methods for commercializing transformational business models for social impact.

Saul Kaplan is a hopeful innovation junkie and human-centered business model designer. Saul is the founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory. BIF designs, prototypes and commercializes transformational business models for social impact.

Beware of random collisions with unusual suspects. Unless of course, you want to create something new. In that case seek out differences and connect often across boundaries, disciplines, and sectors. Create the conditions to enable more random collisions of unusual suspects, or what we call at BIF making a RCUS. New ideas, perspectives, and the most important value creating opportunities are in the gray areas between unusual suspects. And yet we spend most of our time with the usual suspects in our respective silos. We need to get out of our silos more by design. At BIF we embody this simple idea, always asking ourselves, How might we create the conditions to integrate more random collisions of unusual suspects into our daily lives and work? In this session I will share personal stories about how we learned to design for social impact by making a RCUS.

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