Caroline Ashley

Caroline focuses on how innovative economic models can deliver more inclusive and resilient development.

Caroline has worked on markets, business models and investment approaches that deliver social impact for many years in roles with challenge funds, impact investors, entrepreneurs, corporates, NGOs and policy makers. As Results Director of the DFID Business Innovation Facility, and Sida Innovations Against Poverty programme, she founded the Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business in 2010, then took on hosting it, and acted as Editor of the Hub for 7 years before it transitioned into InclusiveBusiness.net managed by IBAN.

Most recently Caroline led economic justice programmes at Oxfam GB, before moving to Forum for the Future, to lead global systems change programmes to accelerate our transition to a sustainable future.

Innovation as big medicine - recommended blog

Uganda
Sub-Saharan Africa
23. Mar 2013

"If we want to do business model innovation, that’s big medicine. It will require we throw away some of the stuff that has made us successful. And it will touch almost everyone. If we’re going to take that on, the CEO must take a heavy hand."

Mike Shipulski, in a blog entitled 'Innovation Eats Itself'.

http://www.shipulski.com/2013/02/20/innovation-eats-itself/comment-...

I stumbled across this blog on innovation and recommend it. It's not written for an inclusive business audience, but it makes sense!

It echoes themes in our own Spotlight onInnovation Strategies for inclusive business.