Earlier this year we developed the ’10 Question Business Model Diagnostic’ to provide NFPs with insight and goals. We’ve found that NFP orgs typically fit into 4 typologies: Walking Dead, Living on the Edge, Comfortable and Heroes. Walking Dead...
Organisations must recognise that achieving sustainability (including funding sustainability) at a point in time does not mean sustainability is assured for good. Take one of Stanford’s funding models as an example. The Beneficiary Builder model is used by...
As Not for Profits face tough conditions, the conversation around sustainable business models is becoming more common. One key building block in the business model is potential partnerships. Traditionally a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) meant a partnership between...
Now that we understand different components of the new economy (detailed in Part 1), the almighty question is why? What’s driving these big businesses to embrace this new economy? It must be more than getting a warm, fuzzy feeling from it. Just like the old economy,...
Business Development (BD) is an integral part of NFPs future in the new economy of sustainability. It happens at the end of the design process after you have created a new business model and an essential part to making it come to fruition. We break down the definition...
Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, James Cook: All famous explorers and discoverers of our time. Though these men weren’t just explorers, they were networkers. For decades, sailors attempted to reach India, with dozens of shipwrecks and thousands of deaths to prove it....
