Tag Archives: Operations
2019-05-30 11:44:15
GOAL: Grid for Organizational Assessment and Learning
To help social enterprises strengthen their capacity to achieve their mission, REDF has developed GOAL (adapted from McKinsey’s Capacity Assessment Tool) to help you measure your organization’s capacity in 6 areas.
Use tool >2019-05-10 11:47:32
Pre-Feasibility Assessment
When planning a new social enterprise business, you will want to eliminate bad business ideas early on in the process. The pre-feasibility analysis helps you do so.
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2017-01-26 10:48:48
Three Leading Management Challenges
The operation of a social enterprise provides managers with a complex challenge of bringing together seemingly competitive business goals with a mission of providing jobs to disadvantaged individuals.
Read Full article >2017-01-25 17:20:47
Management Strategies
Managers who operate social enterprises will benefit from two types of management strategies – both structural and operational – designed to deal with the dual goals of the business.
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2016-09-14 11:23:33
Life Cycle Analysis for Assessing Social Enterprise Stage
Understanding the life cycle stage of your social enterprise will enable you to determine what type of support you will require and what outcomes you want to see
Read Full article >2016-09-13 14:07:26
Social Costs: What are they and why do we care?
Social costs refer to costs that are necessitated by having a particular social mission. But why is it so important to understand what they are?
Read Full article >2016-08-29 17:11:33
Core Drivers of Success: Identity
Identity is an organization’s clear and coherent purpose and its realization internally as a set of aligned operational and cultural practices and externally in exceptional communications.
Read Full article >2016-08-24 10:00:50
Quantifying Social Costs
This methodology of how to quantify social costs will help managers understand the extent to which a social enterprise is profitable as a stand-alone business and shape important strategic and operational decisions.
Read Full article >2016-06-30 15:41:59
A case study of Youth Industry’s impact on homeless youth and the organization’s decision to close.
Read Full article >2016-06-17 07:50:32
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Social Enterprise Finance Best Practices
Track the direction of your SE with these financial planning tips
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