What's your EndGame
Stanford Social Innovation Review
2015
Stanford Social Innovation Review
2015
Stanford Social Innovation Review
https://globaldevincubator.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Winter_2015_Whats_Your_Endgame.pdf
Framing: "Endgame" for reaching organisational scale
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Endgame
Nonprofits and funders.
Open Source Innovation Characteristics - Breakthrough ideas that are easy for other organisations to adopt and integrate.
Replication Model Innovation Characteristics - Breakthrough products or models that are easy for other organisations to adopt and deliver.
Government Adoption Innovation Characteristics - Models with high coverage potential, along with capacity for integration into public sector programs.
Government Adoption Core Approach - Delivering results at a sufficient scale and level of efficiency to make a case for public sector involvement.
Government Adoption Innovator Future Role - Offering services to government agencies, and maintaining research and advocacy efforts.
Commercial Adoption Innovation Characteristics - Products or services with profit potential that solve a market failure or reduce market risk.
Commercial Adoption Core Approach - Demonstrating the impact and the profitability of a product or service, and reducing associated risks.
Commercial Adoption Innovator Future Role - Maintaining advocacy and monitoring efforts, targeting hard-to-reach market segments, and working to ensure commercial delivery.
Mission Achievement Innovation Characteristics - Defined and achievable outcomes related to solving a discrete problem.
Mission Achievement Core Approach - Maintaining a focus on targeted intervention.
Mission Achievement Innovator Future Role - Applying (where relevant) unique assets and capabilities to additional issue areas.
Sustained Service Innovation Characteristics - Strong organisations, with proven ability to sustain funding, that fill a market or public service gap.
Open Source Core Approach - Conducting research and development, and sharing knowledge.
Open Source Innovator Future Role - Serving as a knowledge hub for research related to a breakthrough idea.
Replication Model Core Approach - Defining a replicable operating and impact model, demonstrating its efficacy, and sharing it with other organisations.
Replication Model Innovator Future Role - Providing certification of franchise programs and training services, and serving as a centre of excellence.
Sustained Service Core Approach - Creating a cost-effective model, building a strong organisation, and making efficiency improvements.
Sustained Service Innovator Future Role - Continued provision of a core service at an ever-increasing level of efficiency.
What characteristics does an easily adoptable idea have?
What characteristics does an easily adoptable innovation have?
How does your innovation fit into public sector programmes?
How can you deliver results efficiently so as to gain public sector support?
What future services could your innovation offer to government agencies?
What potential does your innovation have to fill a need commercially?
How can you demonstrate your innovation's potential profitability through its impact?
How can you prepare for your innovation's successful commercial future?
How does the innovation solve a discrete problem?
What is the targeted intervention of the innovation?
How can the innovation's unique characteristics be applied to additional areas of need in the future?
How can the innovation sustain its services long term?
What is your approach for sharing knowledge about research and development?
What is your organisation's future role in this field of innovation?
What is your model for replication?
How can you replicate your innovation long term?
How is your organisation developing an efficient and sustainablemodel?
How can the innovation maintain its core service while increasing efficiency?