Glasshouse Partnership » organic http://www.glasshousepartnership.com Glasshouse Partnership provides online and offline reputation management and social communication services. Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:35:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Transparency. What to do about it. http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/blog/transparency-what-to-do-about-it/ http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/blog/transparency-what-to-do-about-it/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:20:10 +0000 Tim Kitchin http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/?p=950 We’ve written ad nauseam on transparency, but yesterday was a chance to move from thought into action beyond client work – our first stab at ‘mass-consulting’. Organic…]]> The attached deck has a ‘dead’ conceptual’ front-end around transparency, and then some simple planning templates to help brands to think through their responses. I think it’s worth sharing more widely:

We’ve written ad nauseam on transparency, but yesterday was a chance to move from thought into action beyond client work – our first stab at ‘mass-consulting’.

Organic Exchange asked us to present back to back ‘training’ sessions for European fashion brands on the impact of transparency and what to do about it. Yesterday was ‘T-day’.

Verdict: Tiring and only partially successful with such a disparate group (audience was spread from CSR and environment through ops and procurement, with a smattering of brand folk). Lesson learned: this stuff would be better tailored to a specific brand…but the frameworks do really seem to help people to conceptualise.

Need to do more of these, with more specific examples, but it will still be a challenge to answer really brand-specific consulting-type questions in an open forum.

Best news is actual brand custodians really ‘get this’ which is good news for the speech I am giving at the International Apparel Federation in October.

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Anyone know of some good recipes?

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]]> http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/blog/the-glasshouse-greenhouse/feed/ 0 Style Will Save Us http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/blog/style-will-save-us/ http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/blog/style-will-save-us/#comments Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:13:52 +0000 Site Administrator http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/viewpoint/blog/style-will-save-us/ Style Will Save Us (via this entry on the green.tv blog) is the latest in a series of attempts to persuade us to jump on the eco-gift bandwagon, but it takes a slightly different approach to the likes of Oxfam Unwrapped and Practical Presents. Instead of focusing on baby alpacas, Style Will Save Us is a digital magazine which points to a range…]]> Baby alpaca

Style Will Save Us (via this entry on the green.tv blog) is the latest in a series of attempts to persuade us to jump on the eco-gift bandwagon, but it takes a slightly different approach to the likes of Oxfam Unwrapped and Practical Presents.

Instead of focusing on baby alpacas, Style Will Save Us is a digital magazine which points to a range of organic and ethically sourced cosmetics, food and clothing — think of the shopping sections of Wallpaper, but with traceability.

Will style save us? Will traceable and transparent luxury be the driver behind a wider adoption of transparent supply chain practices?

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