Skoll Foundation
PERT Charting for Social Enterprise
Submitted by willow on Mon, 2010-04-05 14:35.
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.
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technoratiIBM: Business Model Innovators Blow Away Margin Growth
Submitted by willow on Sun, 2009-04-05 16:44.
From the SocialEdge Blog: "IBM Global's 2006 report (pdf version here) : Business model innovation: the new route to competitive advantage " includes a striking graph illustrating the finding of IBM's financial analysts that "companies that put more emphasis on business model innovation experienced significantly better operating margin growth (over a five-year period) than their peers." And business model innovation is something that lies at the very heart of social entrepreneurship."
Of particular interest to us as we are working on a project to help solve the global e-waste problem, are descriptions by authors John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan of three styles of business model used by leading social entrepreneurs:
