A strategy for innovation
Innovation capability is patchy in most organisations, but taking a more strategic approach to innovation can increase margins, accelerate growth, and open up new ways to have a greater positive impact.
Tag Archives: Theory of Change
The new skills for social change
For centuries we’ve lived in a capitalist world shaped largely by commercial and economic interests, and that’s not changing any time soon, but commercial markets can be a powerful force for good.
Merger or collaboration
Whether charities should be seeking more mergers or better collaborations seems to be a knotty question, but only because we’re looking at it all wrong.
How to change the world
Like any tool that’s poorly understood, the “theory of change” seems to have as many nay-sayers as proponents. So, in an attempt to demystify what can be an extremely powerful technique, let me share my experience.
CEO Breakfast January 2018
When was the last time you stepped right back, took a really hard look at the true purpose of your organisation, your definition of ultimate success, the different end-games you could play to achieve it within the next few years?
The end game for charities
Scaling up a service to reach all of those who may need it can be a slow, expensive, often impractical route for charities. Here are six alternatives.
Lessons from Scope
Commentators have described Scope’s new strategy as radical, brave and showing the fundamental difference between charity and corporate sectors. None of those are true, but it should still be an example to us all.
A theory of engagament
A Theory of Change can be a powerful tool for all kinds of strategy decisions, whether the outcome you want is an end to tropical deforestation or a million highly-engaged volunteers…
How to achieve more
The biggest mistake people make is equating “doing more” with “achieving more”.
Petra Ingram on using Theory of Change to drive your Strategy
Petra Ingram, CEO of £20m charity The Brooke, on developing a simple, powerful Theory of Change to redefine long-term direction and strategy
