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Viewpoint: How New Technologies Impact Aid Coordination

How do new technologies impact coordination and information management with respect to providing aid in the aftermath of disasters? International agencies, governments and many NGOs have long enjoyed access to the latest technologies; however, this support has largely allowed for incremental (rather than transformational) improvements in efficacy and impact. Several key new technologies are now in the hands of those affected by disasters as well as those seeking to provide aid. We believe it is incumbent upon the international humanitarian community to take advantage of this more balanced distribution of new technologies. Going forward, the challenge is not one of new technologies simply allowing the aid and development community to do things better. Going forward, the challenge is one of doing things differently.

Interview: How Consumer Conversations are Changing Corporations

Trends in digital and social marketing present significant opportunities and challenges to marketing organizations. Rising to these challenges requires change in the marketing department that will eventually impact the rest of the organization. This video interview looks at B2C and B2B examples from six technology-related companies and six other companies that are implementing change. Click right and watch in full screen>

News: Linksbridge speaking at DIHAD 2011

Linksbridge's Robin Schofield will be speaking at the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development Conference and Exhibition (DIHAD) on the impact of new technologies on coordination and information management. DIHAD 2011 will look at how "technologies are affecting and changing the way humanitarian and development organizations collectively operate".

Project: Integrated Security Workshop for Congo

Linksbridge will be working with Swedish foundation Kvinna till Kvinna to support an integrated security workshop for Congolese human rights defenders in April. Over 30 integrated security workshops have been held globally since 2008 across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. This workshop is the tenth that Linksbridge's Jane Barry has facilitated.

Project Alyssa: A New Approach to Disaster Relief

More frequent and new types of disaster, often compounded by political instability or conflict, are affecting larger and larger numbers of people. International humanitarian response systems strain to assist; however, they are increasingly inadequate to the task. The Humanitarian Futures Programme (HFP) of King's College London University and Linksbridge believe humanitarian agencies must rise to this challenge by quickly embracing new humanitarian actors, technological innovations and new thinking on how to structure disaster responses.

News: Read Us in World Pulse's Summer 2010 Issue

Linksbridge principal Jane Barry and co-author Jelena Dordevic met with activists around the world to discuss the culture of the women’s movement and uncovered a disturbing trend: They’re deeply unsettled in their work, and it’s affecting progress.

Viewpoint: Beware Enterprise Applications

Most companies and organizations are familiar with the problems of custom-coded business applications, such as maintaining financial systems and web applications built in-house once the original developers move on.

Viewpoint: A Better Way to Cut Costs

Businesses and non-profits are looking hard at their costs as the current recession bites. However, organizations are often imposing a blanket squeeze on budgets across all their activities─irrespective of a business unit’s strategic importance, performance, or net contribution to cash flow.

Resource: The Linksbridge Method

We believe that strategy consulting is a craft. Here, we publish our guide to delivering high quality projects. Our clients sometimes re-use our method for other tasks after a Linksbridge assignment has completed and their team has been through the process end-to-end.