PERT Charting for Social Enterprise

When navigating  complexities, consider utilizing "The Theory of Change," a methodology to create the kind of change social entrepreneurs are interested in.  The take from the Skoll Foundation's Social Edge forum is that it "involves:

• Identifying long-term goals and the assumptions behind them
• Backwards mapping and connecting the preconditions or requirements necessary to achieve that goal.
• Identifying the interventions that your initiative will perform to create your desired change.
• Developing indicators to measure your outcomes to assess the performance of your initiative.
• Writing a narrative to explain the logic of your initiative.

You might say the Theory of Change approach is a version of the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT charting) adapted for social enterprises.