SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. A SWOT analysis can be carried out for a specific project, organisation or even a whole sector. This analysis leads to a richer understanding of what the project or organisation can offer, … Continued
The Business Model Canvas is a one page overview that lays out both what you do (or want to do), and how you go about doing it, enabling structured conversations around management and strategy by laying out the crucial activities … Continued
The Promises & Potential Map is a simple way to define your added value by mapping the relationship between what you do and who you are doing it for. The tool provides a diagram on which you can plot for … Continued
This tool allows a team to generate ideas by looking at a problem or opportunity from a range of perspectives. This helps to not only come up with new ideas for potential solutions, but also to strengthen a current proposition … Continued
Improvement Triggers provides a collection of questions which can be used to help you look at your work a bit differently. Inspired by the tool ‘SCAMPER’ (Eberle B. 1997), these questions are designed to provoke you into new ways of … Continued
‘Marketing’ what you do doesn’t have to mean selling it. The Marketing Mix will help you do this, if that’s your goal, but it’s also useful for defining the different ways in which people might form opinions about your work … Continued
A Business Plan is just that: a structured description of how you do what you do. The plan needs to articulate the problem the business proposes to solve, a vision for how that will be accomplished, and what uniquely qualifies … Continued
Once a project or pilot has been successfully implemented, the next step is to build upon this success by sustaining and growing it further. Essentially this means extending the reach of your work to a bigger population. There are many … Continued
The Innovation Flowchart gives a detailed overview of the various stages in an innovation process, listing the activities, requirements and goals of each stage. These include an overview of the different people, skills, activities and finances that a project or … Continued
Why do you do what you do? The Evidence Planning tool is a quick way to help articulate and improve what you are trying to accomplish. It gives you an easy way to define and share what it is that … Continued