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Why and How to Model a Non-profit on the Lean Canvas

Leanstack

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. Matthew Pattinson , Empowered Startups, is an advocate for using the entrepreneurial method to foster sustainability and social innovation. The lean canvas makes defining how we create value for the donor explicit.

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Serious About Your Social Mission? Innovate It.

Leapfrogging

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. But, if we are truly intent on achieving both, we need to start taking social impact just as seriously. Mission-driven organizations have an equal opportunity to apply the principles and practices of innovation to maximize their impact–but few take it.

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Why and How to Model a Non-profit on the Lean Canvas

Leanstack

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. Matthew Pattinson , Empowered Startups, is an advocate for using the entrepreneurial method to foster sustainability and social innovation. The lean canvas makes defining how we create value for the donor explicit.

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Blending Metrics and Empathy with Design Thinking: The New Paradigm in Leadership

Tullio Siragusa

Consistency: Strong emphasis on strategies that deliver consistent outcomes. Flexibility: Adaptive decision-making with strategies evolving based on human feedback. Pros and Cons: Benefits embrace enhanced morale and stimulated innovation. Quantitative Focus: Guided by data, statistics, and tangible numbers.

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Moving innovation even more in 2016

Paul Hobcraft

We do need to blend it in and fuse it with other techniques, so to sort out where it fits within the innovation mix and valuing it for its ‘added’ worth to transform information into achieving tangible outcomes. • The power of social innovation and linking your product to societal needs Scaling becomes important to expand this out.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

From my own practice and observations as well as from recent discussions with other innovators in my local and global communites, it’s obvious to me that this issue is increasingly understood and becomes a major organizational requirement. The Stanford Social Innovation Review also looked at how to do this inside of not-for-profits.

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15 most important Innovation Theories your company should be using

Idea to Value

At its core, the framework is a collection of strategies and tools for finding inventive solutions to difficult problems. This can lead to a much larger number of innovations being tested much more quickly, for a lower cost and at a lower risk than traditional management methods. Suggested reading: 6 – Business Model Canvas.

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