When Oscar Wilde wrote "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars", he was alleviating a fundamentally pessimistic view on human existence with a thin ray of hope and aspiration. Transferred to today's reality, we need lots of people to "look at the stars", preferably, all of us. That's why we need to keep communicating, to show others how to see those stars and to prepare the way to come out of the economic downturn. We can help you in doing this. Here are some inspiring ideas and examples.

"Talking with the press, and providing them with real-life success stories."

Richard Alvarez, President of Canada Health Infoway, when asked how he manages to have so much good press and so little bad press on CHI, a state project with $1.6 billion in funding (to date) that aims at a goal of 50% of Canadians having EHRs by 2010.

The customer is always right. You can say that again!

Mr. Julien De Wilde, one of Belgium's leading business managers, always told his colleagues at steel wire manufacturer Bekaert to abide by 2 rules. "Rule 1: the customer is always right. Rule 2: when in doubt, please refer to Rule One."
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Obama bonds on healthcare

President-elect of the United States Barack Obama has invited Americans to host an online health care community discussion from their own homes.
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All together now!

With IBM Business Partner Achordus (UK), Living Stone has been working on the development of a large group intervention technique that allows organizations to share ideas and to hold discussions with its stakeholders, in groups of up to 10,000 people.
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New Wins

Read about recent new wins we are allowed to announce: CERUS, TechTeam Global, Belgian Fund for Scientific Rheumatology Research and VIGeZ.
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Be intelligent, think less

Patience and confusion--rather than rigor and certainty--are the essential precursors of wisdom, says British performer John Cleese at the second World Creativity Forum in Antwerp end of 2008. He shared his own wisdom on creativity with us.
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