What can we do for you?
Social businesses
All entrepreneurs face challenges as they build and grow their businesses. We're entrepreneurs ourselves, and we exist to help social entrepreneurs sort the "business" in "social business" so they can grow and compete in this exciting sector. Our services include:
- Strategies to access capital
- Organisational development: internal analysis and development of tools and structures to prepare the business for growth
- Identification of key personnel needs
- Business and feasibility planning for new businesses and new lines of business
Corporations
It's no secret that the world is going "green". UK consumers spent £29.3bn on ethical goods and services in the UK in 2005. A Mexican microfinance bank, Compartamos, netted $407m from its 2007 IPO. Corporations are seeking strategies to access new markets in the world's "next billion", and to bring "ethical" products and services to their customers. Yet the world of social innovation is fragmented and difficult to access for large companies with multiple stakeholders and lines of business. We are excited to help corporations navigate the world of social innovation, and apply its lessons and methods in ways that benefit the bottom line and have clear social impact.
- Briefing reports on key issues and "best practice": We draw on our networks and expertise in social business to highlight opportunities and potential applications of social innovation to your business.
- New product / service /application strategies: We work with clients to develop business cases and project plans for exploration and implementation of strategies based on social innovation.
- Stakeholder engagement through social innovation: We facilitate analysis of our clients' stakeholder groups, drawing on global social innovation to develop strategies to proactively and profitably engage with stakeholders.
- Partnership strategies with social innovators: Starting with a stated challenge or opportunity, we identify key social innovators and develop strategies to work with them to deliver results.