CommonsSense

We mobilize tribes for meaningful innovation
Tribes

Tribes

We bring people from your organization together, through serious games, to solve your innovation challenges
Challenges

Challenges

The challenges we help you to solve are meaningful and always aligned with your strategy
Games

Games

Our games are not played behind PCs. They are collaborative, highly engaging, and involve real and meaningful projects

Why you should be interested

Social Intrapreneurship?
Companies such as Google have a wealth of creativity and technical expertise locked up within them, and that social responsibility programmes could harness this resource in socially enterprising ways, rather than simply support of good causes.
Michael Norton, Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action, UK
Social Collaboration?
The majority of the value-creation activities in an enterprise are hidden.(...)They happen below the surface. We don’t see - and thus don’t recognize - all the activities which have enabled the team to form and which help them throughout their journey.
Oscar Berg, Blogger, 'The Content Economy'
Gamification?
By 2015, more than 50 percent of organizations that manage innovation processes will gamify those processes.
Analyst, Gartner
Social Innovation?
Thinking with societal challenges in mind is a great catalyst for innovation.
Dan Vermeer, The Coca-Cola Company
Shared Value?
Companies must take the lead in bringing business and society back together. Realizing it will require leaders and managers to develop new skills and knowledge.
Michael Porter, Harvard Business School & 'Creating Shared Value'
Learning Organization?
Learning organizations are those where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to see the whole together.
Peter Senge, MIT Sloan

Our modus operandi to create innovative tribes

If I had an hour to save the world, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and 1 minute finding solutions.
Albert Einstein,

  • Your innovators & their challenges

    Spot your innovators with their meaningful projects, and collect their challenges

  • Their stories

    Help them spread their inspiring stories throughout your organization

  • The tribes

    Gather passionate people to help them solve their challenges & accelerate their projects

  • Sustainable involvement

    Sustain long-term involvement of these innovative tribes

  • Feedback loops

    Share solutions & learnings, and do it better, faster, next time
Our tools

Our tools

We have developed methodologies & tools to foster creativity and put people at the center of the innovation process.
Discover them →

Innovation tribes

We have created innovative tribes of ...
Social Entrepreneurs + Sense Makers

Social Entrepreneurs + Sense Makers

We involve communities around the world in solving challenges faced by social entrepreneurs
Read More →
Innovation + Business Units

Innovation + Business Units

We helped the Innovation Department design events and programs to engage more the Business Units and Key Partners, focusing on project initiators.
Read More →
Innovation + CSR

Innovation + CSR

We connected Innovation & CSR departments, so that they combine their creativity to imagine new and socially responsible applications for emerging technologies
Read More →
CSR + Marketing

CSR + Marketing

We helped explore new ways to align CSR's successful & promising projects with the maketing strategy
Read More →
Innovation + Social Entrepreneurs + CSR

Innovation + Social Entrepreneurs + CSR

We helped Innovation departments explore creative business models around a new technology, by solving the challenge of a social entrepreneur
Start-ups + Partners

Start-ups + Partners

The CTIC is a new tech start-ups incubator based in Dakar, Sénégal, partly funded by Orange-Sonatel and the World Bank. We helped the incubated start-ups and the CTIC itself solve innovation challenges and build their community of users and partners. We animated 10 creativity workshops and 2 trainings - one on the workshop methodology and one on community management.
Multiple departments + Strategy

Multiple departments + Strategy

We helped the NGO Aurore animate 18 simultaneous collaborative workshops mixing all the differents units to get them involved and synchronized with the strategic challenges of the association. 350 people participates.

Get to know us

Powered by MakeSense

Powered by MakeSense

Founded by the people behind MakeSense, CommonsSense is a for-purpose company, with a limited profitability. While leveraging the community to source meaningful projects & challenges, we give back by sponsoring events, sharing learnings & dedicating 20% of our time to the community.
Read More →
The team

The team

We are a multidisciplinary team of passionate people, with multicultural background and international experiences.
Meet us! →
The tribe

The tribe

Because no one can make it alone, we are grateful to all the amazing people who helped us get there!
See our Hall of fame →
What we don't do

  • Talk the talk without walking the walk

    We don't advice with 100-page reports nobody reads or with nice bullet-point slides. We always take the responsibility to implement, with you, our recommendations.

  • Do it for the hype

    We don't conduct brainstorming sessions just because they are cool & fun. We do it only to solve the right, well-framed, problems.

  • Think that technology is a silver bullet

    We don't over-rely on technology telling you that it will solve all your problems. We use tools your employees already know, and mixed them with innovative event formats.

Media

They are talking about us!

Centre incubateur des TIC : Des solutions innovantes proposées aux jeunes entrepreneurs

Date: Jun 12, 2012
Le centre d’accompagnement d’entrepreneurs Tic d’Afrique de l’ouest (CTIC), organise, depuis jeudi, un atelier pour comprendre les problématiques commerciales ou stratégiques que renc
Read More →

Les “gangsters” changent le monde

Date: Jun 07, 2012
Comments: 0
Pour rapprocher les grandes entreprises des entrepreneurs sociaux, Makesense organise des ateliers de brainstorming pour trouver une utilité sociale ou environnementale aux services de professionnels. [..
Read More →

Gangsourcing pour le bien du monde

Date: Jan 24, 2012
Comments: 0
Lancé en 2010 par deux jeunes français de 23 ans, Makesense.org aspire à aider les entrepreneurs sociaux du monde entier à mener à bien leurs projets avec l’aide de volontaires où qu’ils
Read More →

Innovation à l’unisson !

Date: Nov 24, 2011
Comments: 0
Le 11 octobre dernier, 40 collaborateurs SFR de tous profils se sont rassemblés pour un « hold-up » très spécial. Leur mission : s’emparer de cinq prototypes ou services SFR et explorer des pistes d
Read More →

Let us know you’re out there!

What's your challenge? Who's your tribe? We can help, so just drop by to meet us or drop us a line, and let's get started!
Office

Office

81 Avenue de la République, 75011 Paris - France
Email

Email

hello@commonssense.cc
  1. Name *
    * Please enter your name
  2. Email *
    * Please enter a valid email address
  3. Message *
    * Please enter message